Daniel Bourke

Video Game Education

The Benefits of Tinkering at Scale.

Getting Started

Start where you are

As you were. As a friend. As an old enemy.

Creating

The amateur's advantage

An amateur pursues a craft for the love of it. They're armed with the superpower of not requiring the approval of others.

Creating

Create beauty at all costs

The world can never have enough beauty.

Machine Learning

Learn TensorFlow for Deep Learning (code-first course)

Like to code? Looking to learn deep learning? Like to learn hands-on? This course will teach you deep learning and help you learn TensorFlow through 40+ hours of code-along videos.

Machine Learning

How the biggest companies in the world design Machine Learning-powered applications

Think machine learning might be helpful for your project? Here's how the best do it.

Decision Making

Shedding old skin

A snake slithers out of its old skin without effort. A caterpillar decides it’s time to become a butterfly, encases itself in a cocoon, rests, and emerges with colourful wings. All of nature happens this way. No effort. Like air entering and leaving your lungs, happening by itself. Want

Creating

Multiply yourself

40,049 students from 164 countries around the world and counting.

Life and Living

All I want to be is present

What's it all about?

Decision Making

How fast is your OODA loop?

Originally developed for Air Force combat, the OODA loop (observe, orient, decide, act) can be applied in any battle. Even when the opponent is oneself.

Life and Living

No competition

Set the system up so you always win.

Life and Living

Alive but already dead

What are you scared of? She asked. Nothing. Really? Yes. Not even death? No, I paused, kept going. Well, I’m scared of dying not of death, so I guess there is one thing. Explain. To me, when death comes it’ll be like the time before you were alive.

Communication

People reflect the light you shine on them

When I drove Uber, I’d play a game. How much can I learn about this person?Every 10-minutes (give or take depending on the destination) there’d be a new person sitting beside me and I’d take them to where they wanted to go. In that 10-minutes, I’

Stories

The girl with the C R E A T E tattoo

You’ve been here before haven’t you? Yes I have. Black this time. All black. Shoes, stockings or socks I can’t tell to the knees, black skirt above the knees, black sleeveless top. It sucks me in like a black hole. I tell her. I like your style.

Machine Learning

CS329s Machine Learning Deployment Tutorial

If you're smart enough to build machine learning models, you're smart enough to deploy them.

Art

Find your art and let it kill you

Been getting distracted. Trivial things getting in the way. String enough of those together and that's when people start to say "where did the time go?" I’ll tell you where it didn’t go, it didn’t go towards your craft. It didn’t go towards practicing. It didn’

Decision Making

The Buttons for the User Interface of Reality

Become an author of your reality by stacking your talents, affirming yourself, sparking curiosity, injecting novelty, painting contrast and keeping it simple simple simple.

Conversation

Your work is beautiful

I love receiving compliments on my work, my efforts, my creations, my actions. Last night after Jiu Jitsu training I took off my Gi top (think karate outfit) to cool down and stretch. I walked across the mats to get water. Coming back to the other side I heard John

Two kinds of followers

There’s the solider, the one who has to be there because they’re under an authority. And there’s the dancing partner, the one who wants to be there for no other reason but to join the dance. Of course, you can choose to be either. A solider can

Studying

“How do you deal with loneliness while studying?”

I stop studying. I go and talk to people. I get out in nature, I write, I read. I sit and do nothing. You’re never alone with the blank page. Whilst I write these lines I’m sitting on my balcony alone. Feeling the wind in my hair. Letting

Stories

Like Wonder with an S

I went on date with a girl studying to be a paramedic. She told me of a lesson she'd learned recently. Sometimes the patients we go to don't need an ambulance. When I first started, I wondered why they called. I mean, we could've gone to a patient who really

Learning

Curiosity is a skill

If anyone takes away your curiosity or eagerness for life, avoid them. Be as curious as you want about anything and everything. Curiousity is a skill which peaks in childhood and slowly dies off. But it doesn’t have to. Seeing curiosity as a skill means you can practice it.

Questions

How to appear smarter and more confident

Now I’ve got a rule: if I think something is a “dumb” question, I have to ask it.

Newsletter

Filtering out what matters

What do you have without your health? Five questions to ask yourself everyday. The optionality of life. Using time and boredom to guide your decisions.

Yearly

2021 — Questions, themes and ideas

Questions, themes & ideas I'm asking myself and pondering whilst getting used to writing the correct year down.