Aesthetics Yūgen: When the birds fly behind the clouds Learned about a new Japanese word yesterday. Yūgen (幽玄). As with many Japanese words the translation gets blurred when it comes to English. But I understood it as the feeling you get when you watch a flock of birds fly behind a cloud. In the sky one moment, gone the
Machine Learning How to Setup Apple Silicon Mac for Machine Learning with PyTorch Prepare your M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max, M1 Ultra for data science and machine learning with accelerated PyTorch for Mac.
Charlie Walks The Third Monday Thirteen inches of steel went through his chest. One inch for every year since his birth.
Poems Listening or dancing? Swimming or floating? Walking or standing still? Pissed off or laughing? Opposites give each other meaning. The listener’s ear hairs swing to the beat. And the dancer moves to the sound. Going through life floating down the stream. Or swimming along with events. My Mum used to teach swimming
Machine Learning The Unofficial PyTorch Optimization Loop Song Sing it with me! Do the forward pass, calculate the loss, optimizer zero grad, lossssss backward, optimizer step, step, step.
Creating dangerously The artist connects heaven and Earth. Brings together opposing forces. Shines light on dark areas and throws shade on areas shining too bright. Puts their neck on the line, disagreeing with many at the cost of sharing their point of view. It is the role of the artist to create
Machine Learning How to Learn Data Science on Coursera in 2022 (beginner-friendly) A guide creating your own curriculum using Notion to learn Python programming, data science and machine learning on Coursera in 2022.
Honour among thieves We’re all guilty. Of one thing or another. Thieves know this. They see it in each other. They’re aware of their crimes. Though are all thieves criminals? Is someone who steals from one to give to someone less fortunate a criminal? Or is someone more fortunate who steals
New podcast with Danny Miranda I went on the Danny Miranda podcast the other day. Just over a year since my first appearance. A lot's happened since then. You can listen on: Apple PodcastsSpotifyOn it Danny asked me questions about: What it's like working on a farmWriting a novel Reaching 100k subscribers on YouTube My
Machine Learning How to Setup TensorFlow on Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max (works for M1 too) Setup a TensorFlow environment on Apple's M1 chips. We'll get TensorFlow to use the M1 GPU as well as install common data science and machine learning libraries using Conda.
Machine Learning Apple’s M1 Pro and M1 Max Outperform Google Colab by up to 54% 2021 Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max Machine Learning speed test comparison.
Eat My first day on a farm An attempt to close the knowledge gap between what's on my plate and how it got there.
Life and Living Out of the blue A woman I went to primary school with had her life support turned off this morning. Yesterday she fainted and it turned out to be some kind of brain aneurysm. In the ambulance she was put into an induced coma. By the time she got to the hospital they found
YouTube 100,000 YouTube Subscribers Numbers don't do it for me. They never did. The first 1000, the next 1000, the next 10000. Yes, I like looking at them go up. But there's always more. I said in my 1000 subscriber live stream Q&A video that 1000 subscribers was my only ever goal.
Communication The follow up A skill I'd like to get better at is following up. Following up shows you care. All of the opportunities and things you've said in the past going by the wayside. Coming back and saying, hey I've done this. It's not possible for everything. But how much time would you
Make Typewriting Someone special got me a typewriter recently. I said it once a couple of months ago, I'd like to get a typewriter. And they listened and surprised me on my birthday. I'm a big fan. The post below came off the press the other day. Only a single edit or
YouTube 97,777 YouTube Subscriber Livestream Q&A (links & resources) Why 97,777? I love the number 7. I have a dog called Seven and one day my friend and I won $1500 on double diamond sevens playing perfect pairs at the casino. Since then, seven's been my number. To celebrate such a beautiful number (I missed 77,777), I