About

I'm a writer who makes YouTube videos about the crossover of health, technology and art.

My writing is like the voice in your head found a typewriter. My first novel is called Charlie Walks, the story of a computer programmer who wants to be a writer (meta, ha!).

I teach machine learning and deep learning at the Zero to Mastery Academy (currently to over 230,000 students worldwide!).

My mission is to use AI to help people move more and eat better.

I'm currently working on:

• Nutrify – An app to help you learn about food by taking a photo of it (imagine a Pokédex for food or Shazam for food).
• KeepTrack – An app to help people keep track of their stuff for insurance purposes.
• learnhuggingface.com – A tutorial website teaching the Hugging Face ecosystem to help solve different machine learning problems.
• learnml.io – A website focused on machine learning concepts and tidbits, generally more technical posts than on this website.
• Custom ML – Helping companies build their own custom machine learning models, I specialize in on-device, low latency models (e.g. models that run on the edge and don't necessarily need an internet connection), if this is what you need, contact me.
• See more on my Now page.

I'd like to own a large piece of land in the next few years to grow my own food. For now, I'm starting small in the backyard.

My ikigai (Japanese word for "reason for being") is learning to create and creating to learn.

I write a yearly article about what I've learned, see 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31.

In 2019, I left the workforce and started working for myself.

I've been a machine learning engineer at Max Kelsen, Uber Driver, Genius at Apple, fitness coach and men's physique competitor in that order.

In 2017, I decided to start teaching myself to code, with a focus on machine learning and artificial intelligence via my self-created Artificial Intelligence Masters Degree.

My writing is available on Medium, Quora and here.

Every month or so, I send out a newsletter called Eat, Move, Learn, Make detailing my work. Why Eat, Move, Learn, Make? These are the things I like doing most.

I've done a handful of podcasts and interviews with others.

Making and movement are two non-negotiable daily rituals for me.

@mrdbourke is my handle on Twitter/X.

Brisbane has been my home town my whole life, I love it here. I live in a suburb called Brighton.

I refer to it as Brisbane's Northern Beaches.

My house is a 7-minute walk to the water.

I try to get down there and walk every day.