Daniel Bourke

Life Lessons

Your results won’t always match your actions

In the beginning, your results will increase with your actions. But eventually, there'll be a mismatch. That's when you'll need to think about what you're doing. Keep going until the tipping point? Or stop and start again.When you first start out,

People

Always Delivering Value

Let me introduce you to the concept of always delivering value. My friend Michael is an expert at it. How do I know? Today he told me it’s his motto. It makes sense. From the moment I met him, he lived up to it. I told him my name,

The information diet

Facebook. Instagram. Facebook. Instagram. Facebook. Flipboard. Instagram. Roll over. Change hands. Flipboard. Facebook. Instagram. I'd keep going until I fell asleep. Laying there until 2:00 am, 3:00 am. I became dependent on it. I couldn't sleep without it. It was the same on the

Health

I didn’t eat food for 4-days, here’s what happened

You’ve heard the benefits of extended fasts, but what actually happens?

Less footpaths

Get too used to walking on footpaths and you won't want to take a step off. Get too used to following the same steps everyone else has taken and you won't be willing to try something new. You practice doing something different by walking on footpaths

No broken windows

One broken window leads to two. Two broken windows leads to a whole street being seen as unsafe. Enough unsafe streets and you’ve got a neighbourhood no one wants to visit. Take care of the big things by taking care of the small things. The details are what make

I'm moving my website

I'm in the process of moving my website from SquareSpace to Ghost. It shouldn't take long. In the meantime, some links may be broken. Daily posts will still continue. If you're looking for my AI Masters Degree, it's here: https://danielbourke.ghost.

Data Science

5 Beginner Friendly Steps to Learn Machine Learning and Data Science with Python

"I want to learn machine learning and data science, where do I start?" Here.

Birthday

26 Things I’ve Learned After 26 Years

I’m 26 today. And I’ve posted an article every day for the last year.

Life Lessons

Feeling lost? You're probably walking along someone else's path

Every time I feel lost it's because I'm trying to be someone else.

Machine Learning

6 Techniques Which Help Me Study Machine Learning Five Days Per Week

I studied machine learning every day for 9-months, then got a job. How? Like this…

Writing

Being Your Own Biggest Critique is Easy, Try Being Your Own Biggest Fan

6 ways to poison distraction and start writing.

Machine Learning

The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book Book Review

The start here and continue here of machine learning. 100-pages in 10-minutes. You ready?

Stories

The Phenix

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The sign out front said Phenix. It meant to say Phoenix but the O was out. Charlie walked up. The security guard spoke. Got ID? Charlie pulled out his wallet. Gave the guard his ID. What’s this? It’s an Australian licence. Charlie was from out of town.

Machine Learning

12 Things I Learned During My First Year as a Machine Learning Engineer

Being your own biggest sceptic, the value in trying things which might not work and why communication problems are harder than technical problems.

Stories

Sales Lessons 101 From a Homeless Guy

Thomas James just got $8.50 out of me. Why? Because he put the hard sell on me.

Machine Learning

How to Start Your Own Machine Learning Projects

What courses don’t (and can’t) teach you.

Create then check then criticise

Don’t check your creative work as you’re making it. Let it flow. Create something today. Check and criticise it tomorrow. Create something in the morning. Nap. Check it in the afternoon. Criticise it in the evening. Checking it too often will hold back the creative. Criticising it too

Machine Learning

How I Passed the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Certification Exam

Without the recommended 3-years hands-on experience

Everyone fails

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I saw Avengers: End Game tonight. Don’t worry I won’t spoil anything. Except for a quote I loved. And repeated it to myself many times during the movie so I wouldn’t forget it. I imagined it was on my whiteboard when I walked into my room,

Business

The "2 Year Self Apprenticeship"

My friend sent me this post. The "2 Year Self Apprenticeship" model by @lewismockerReading it was a form of confirmation bias. It was as if I was reading what I’d been subconsciously (or consciously? How do you tell?) doing the past 2-years. I’m in between step

Health

6 Facts You Should Know About Losing Weight and Keeping it Off

Health doesn't have to be hard. Follow these health habits and you'll have no option but to get lean and stay lean.

Stories

Single Machine Learning Engineer Takes Laptop on a Date for Valentine’s Day

A story of love and loss functions.

Machine Learning

Thinking of Self-Studying Machine Learning? Remind yourself of these 6 things

I’m a self-taught Machine Learning Engineer, here’s what I’d tell myself if I started again.

Machine Learning

Bioinformatics: Where code meets biology

A brief introduction to the future of healthcare.