Learning

A collection of 38 posts

Learning

A Learner's Fight: Adaptation vs. Education

Education saves time. Adaptation sharpens instincts.

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

Learning

Learn slower

What’s the rush?

Getting Started

Start where you are

As you were. As a friend. As an old enemy.

Learning

Curiosity is a skill

If anyone takes away your curiosity or eagerness for life, avoid them. Be as curious as you want about anything and everything. Curiousity is a skill which peaks in childhood and slowly dies off. But it doesn’t have to. Seeing curiosity as a skill means you can practice it.

Learning

How to Create Your Own Data Science Curriculum with Coursera in 2021

2021 is here. Time to take control of your own education. Here's an example of how you can use Coursera and Notion to create your own data science curriculum.

Machine Learning

How I’d start learning machine learning again (3-years in)

Putting the engineer back in machine learning engineer

Machine Learning

My Machine Learning Curriculum for May 2020: Getting TensorFlow Developer Certified

1 Python book + 1 machine learning books + 1 machine learning course + 30(ish) days == TensorFlow Certified.

Machine Learning

How to learn machine learning and improve your health at the same time

Here’s a new rule: If your model is moving, you’re moving.

Machine Learning

My machine learning course got pirated

If you stumble across a free version of my course, I hope you enjoy it, don't feel guilty for using it, it's yours as much as mine.

Decision Making

Trust one eye more than two ears

99% of your thought process is dedicated to maintaining your self-conceptions but 98% of them are wrong. This usually trips most people up. Because the lengths people will go to save face are extraordinary. You’re probably not as scared of failing as you think. You’re more scared of

Machine Learning

Learning something new? Don't try and boil the ocean

Does someone need to know the inner workings of a combustion engine to learn how to drive a car? Of course not. You get in, you realise there’s a wheel, two or three pedals, a gear stick which you set to D (for drive) and then a collection of

Getting Started

Suck at something new

Dave and I had an idea once. We were driving down to the beach. On the way, we stopped by waterfall with the rope swing. I was supposed to be doing university work and Dave was supposed to be working at the bank but we couldn’t care. Adventure awaited.

Learning

You only remember the things you learn yourself

All the things in school. Most of the things in university. That class on public health policy. They’re all gone. The thing they have in common is they’re not the things I was trying to learn myself. They were there. They were things which were going to be

Life and Living

There’s no need for genius envy

I read through Twitter, watch videos on YouTube, read the headlines. See what others are up to. See their achievements. And I get jealous. All these geniuses! Why aren’t I like that? Why aren’t I earning the respect of others? Why aren’t I that smart? Why why

Learning

Knowing how vs. Knowing what

Traditional education teaches what. It’s obsessed with definitions, facts, processes, principles, the right way of doing things. Apprenticeship style education teaches how. The first thing you learn is there’s many ways to do the same thing. I failed my first two years of university because I was lazy.

Learning

Knowledge of absence

The best knowledge is knowledge of absence. What doesn’t work. However, knowing what doesn’t work comes with no rewards. For everything that is known to work, there are 100 things which don’t (made up number, ratio likely higher). The thing is, knowing what doesn’t work is

Learning

A cheaper alternative to college

Dear younger self, here's how you could've saved $31,897 in college debt.

Learning

How long does it take?

My physics teacher had a saying. Every time we’d ask a question which had many different possible answers, he’d say, “how long is a piece of string?”. Being physics students someone eventually realised the length of any piece of string is twice half its length. So from then

Learning

Which Python, machine learning, data science course is best?

Someone sent me an email the other day asking which Python course would accelerate their learning the most. It’s a tough question, because there’s many different courses out there. What makes it harder is most of them are good, follow them and you’ll learn something. When I

Productivity

How I became a productivity machine

I spend a lot of time thinking about how to spend my time. You might be the same. I’ve tried every system you can imagine. Some worked, some didn’t. It’s no surprise the one I keep coming back to is simple. My two guiding principles are less

YouTube

Why your studying routine is f*cked

If you want to learn something, remember these. Reduce the search space There's an abundance of things to learn online. But having too many decisions leads to no decisions. Pick something, do your research on what you need to learn and learn it. If it works out, keep

Business

I earned $10,363.60 online last month, here's how

I left my job two months ago. Since then, I've tripled my salary.

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,

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.