Daniel Bourke

Birthday

30 years old

I remember sitting in the car on the way to drop my brother to preschool. Being 9 years old and telling my mum how excited I was to turn ten. Double digits! I feel the same way about 29 to 30. I hardly even got used to saying I’m

Poems

Those days when nothing gets done

A lie.

Learning

A Learner's Fight: Adaptation vs. Education

Education saves time. Adaptation sharpens instincts.

AI

ZTM 2023 State of AI Tools & Coding Report

How are developers using AI tools?

Make

Attitude follows behaviour

Imposter syndrome. Feeling like you’re doing something you shouldn’t be. Hanging around those who you feel should be. It’s true, if at any time you feel your skill is inadequate, it likely is. But that just means you know what you don’t know. A plumber who’

Poems

The same feeling

Starting something new. A business, a relationship, an adventure, a creation. Hell, it doesn’t even have to be new. Or even the start. Still, the feelings creep in. Am I going to make it? Does she like me? What does he think? Goodness what if I go broke? Valid

Poems

Trick plays make headlines

Tempting to do the big. Tempting to do the thing no one’s ever done. The trick. Like the old man on the hill. Yelling, kicking, showing off, swinging. Look look look! Get the process right and the rest will follow! That’s the real trick. Process over time. Try

Philosophy

Wu wei (无为) — The art of not forcing

The controlled accident. Sometimes it gets mistaken for "do nothing" or "doing nothing". Because the characters 无为 (wu wei) mean nothing (wu, 无) and doing (wei, 为). So although a literal translation would be doing nothing, it doesn’t mean the same as sitting around all day. Although it might

Psychology

Mistaking the menu for the food

Let’s do an experiment. A chef who can’t read comes into your kitchen to cook you a meal. You’re sitting in another room and can’t see what they’re making but you can smell it. On the bench top there are two cans, one red, one

Decision Making

Placebo yourself

If there’s something that you’d like to do or some condition you’d like to be true, let it happen. Believe it’s going to happen. Write it down. Start talking about it with yourself. I’ve got this. You (I) can do it. That’s what most

Eat

Building a garden in the backyard

I started building a garden in the backyard. It’s a small space but it took almost a year to get going. A year! Mostly because of laziness and other things going on. A little dream I have is to one day eat a full feast that consists 100% of

AI

AI Anxiety

A walk into the unknown.

Machine Learning

5 Free Resources to Help You Get a Machine Learning Job

Learn in public, build your own projects, start the job before you have it, polish your resume and practice, practice, practice!

PyTorch

A Quick Introduction to PyTorch 2.0

PyTorch 2.0 is out! And it comes with plenty of updates. Also NVIDIA GTC March 2023 is around the corner, to celebrate they've given me an RTX 4080 to giveaway!

Nutrify

Copying Tesla's Data Engine (for food images)

A cooking recipe for building Nutrify's data engine.

People

Silent idols

Showing without telling.

Lifestyle

Operation zero commute

I’d like to setup a life where my commute time is basically zero. As much as possible from home. Work from home, gym from home, practice farming from home, community from home. Everything walking or riding distance, the rest delivered. I don’t even live in one of the

Move

Home alone on a Saturday night

Got caught in thought space today. Ideas galore, activities here and there, actions minimal, lots of standing around watching not enough touching. Like the guy with a crush on a girl but never says anything. So I took a step outside thought space. And found gravity. Twenty minutes of movement

Charlie Walks

My book Charlie Walks: A Novel is now available worldwide

Charlie Walks: A Novel now shipping paperback copies worldwide.

Birthday

29 years old

And getting better at stealing ideas and ideals.

Rejected

My brother and I got rejected from applying to the AI Grant with Nutrify the other day. Of course I'm disappointed. I would've really liked the $250k cash and $250k compute credits! I even put the application notice on the fridge! But no troubles. And fair because it's still well

PyTorch

Learn PyTorch in a day. Literally.

My latest YouTube video is 25 hours, 36 minutes and 57 seconds long (actually a little over a day). And its sole purpose is to be a momentum builder, to help you learn PyTorch for deep learning. Fun fact: YouTube even puts a "1" for the number of days in

People

My favourite kind of people: those with joie de vivre

Here’s to the excited ones.

Machine Learning

Learn PyTorch for Deep Learning: Zero to Mastery

The Zero to Mastery PyTorch course is live! Get started with machine learning hands-on by writing PyTorch code.

Aesthetics

Yūgen: When the birds fly behind the clouds

Learned about a new Japanese word yesterday. Yūgen [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aesthetics#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