Daniel Bourke

Birthday

31 Simple Pleasures

Simple doesn’t mean small.

Nutrify

Nutrify Goes to School (V1)

📸 -> 🍌 @ 🏫 | Whole Food Education for Schools

Nutrify

Introducing Nutrify 1.2.3

Whole Food Streaks, Widgets, Quick Summaries and 41 New Foods.

Learning

Small sways in the breeze make you strong

I watch the olive trees in my backyard dance in the wind. When they were small, they’d almost fall over. But the post kept them up. Now they’re big enough to stand on their own. A breeze comes along and their branches move with it but not too

Nutrify

Introducing Nutrify 1.2: Calorie and Macronutrient Goals, Breakdowns and 57 New Foods

Nutrify 1.2 is here! What is Nutrify? Nutrify is a food tracking and education app focused on whole foods. This update brings several helpful features for those who’d like to know what their calorie and macronutrient intakes are per whole food. It also adds a bunch of new

Life and Living

Not just fishing knots

Took mum to her childhood home Sunday just gone to see Papa. We walked in and mum saw Nana and they both started to cry. Papa, Alan, Alby, my grandfather was quite sick. The room was quiet and somber but had an unshakable aura of warmth and love. Everyone was

Stories

Superglue and milk

We walked out of the movies and it was still daylight. I helped Dad get onto the escalators. He moves slower than most. It keeps me in check when I’m steaming along. Walking into the movies I looked at the time. We were late. Friday afternoon traffic. So I

Nutrify

Introducing Nutrify | Learn about food with AI

Like Shazam. But for food. A simple app to make learning about food fun.

Magic

Where’s the magic?

I got asked once my favourite person from history in a job interview. I said Isaac Newton. An old cricket coach told me about the laws of motion. And I never forgot. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. It helped fix my right arm leg spin. I later

Machine Learning

Apple M3 Machine Learning Speed Test

I put my M1 Pro against Apple's new M3, M3 Pro, M3 Max, a NVIDIA GPU and Google Colab.

Poems

The subtle shade of the clouds

Garlic takes six to seven months to grow. I’m still working it out. I planted my garlic too late. Not the farm garlic though. They’ve had practice. Over a thousand bulbs this year, maybe more. Tens of thousands of cloves. Garlic is the biggest harvest of the year.

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

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!