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Water colour painting of two birds sitting on a fallen log between two banks.

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

Wu wei (无为) — The art of not forcing

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

Two paintings of soup cans, one red, one blue. Artwork by Banksy.

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

blue and pink pill on a blue background

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

photo of a garden next to a yard with a fence behind it

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

photo of landscape with ocean in middle ground, blue sky up top, bushes in foreground

AI Anxiety

A walk into the unknown.

Five icons on a black background with text public, projects, proactive, polish and practice.

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!

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!

Flowchart of Nutrify's work-in-progress data engine

Copying Tesla's Data Engine (for food images)

A cooking recipe for building Nutrify's data engine.

weightlifter with weight overhead being admired by two other men, cartoon style

Silent idols

Showing without telling.

Watercolor painting of four separate rooms and areas with different functionality

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

Weightlifting bar on an orange foam mat in front of a white wall

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

Person holding Charlie Walks paperback copy

My book Charlie Walks: A Novel is now available worldwide

Charlie Walks: A Novel now shipping paperback copies worldwide.

Painting of bluebird flying into purple pond tree while lizardman feeds tea to the wolves.

29 years old

And getting better at stealing ideas and ideals.

Rejection letter for the AI Grant

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

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

ai-generated water colour painting of a girl dancing in a field

My favourite kind of people: those with joie de vivre

Here’s to the excited ones.

learnpytorch.io cover image detailing all of the different sections of the Learn PyTorch for Deep Learning course

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.

Computer generated image by craiyon.com, prompt "watercolour painting of birds flying behind clouds"

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

Machine Learning

Setup Apple Mac for Machine Learning with PyTorch (works for all M1 and M2 chips)

Prepare your M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max, M1 Ultra or M2 Mac for data science and machine learning with accelerated PyTorch for Mac.

A drawing of cows in a field with a big green hill in the background and a nice blue sky

Life and Living

Survivability and Scalability

Have fun and let it become fruitful.

Empty chairs in a classroom

The Third Monday

Thirteen inches of steel went through his chest. One inch for every year since his birth.

Cartoon record player with dancer spinning to the music

Listening or dancing?

Swimming or floating? Walking or standing still? Pissed off or laughing? Opposites give each other meaning. The listener’s ear hairs swing to the beat. And the dancer moves to the sound. Going through life floating down the stream. Or swimming along with events. My Mum used to teach swimming

four pictures in a row starting with an atom then a human eye then a tennis ball then the earth

Quantity vs. quality

A tennis ball is smaller than the Earth but yet no less round.

man standing in computer studio with microphone in hand and screens behind singing a song

Machine Learning

The Unofficial PyTorch Optimization Loop Song

Sing it with me! Do the forward pass, calculate the loss, optimizer zero grad, lossssss backward, optimizer step, step, step.