Hacker Thinking About (Programming) Languages for a Side Project It has been about 10 years since I stopped working on my procedural landscape generation side project [https://harveynick.com/tag/procedural-landscape-generation/]. I’ve wanted to pick some of the the ideas from that project for a while now, but never really had anything which felt that concrete starting point.
Hacker Thinking About Languages for Deep Learning Right now Python [https://www.python.org] feels like the language of deep learning and data science in general. That’s not really surprising. With the right libraries (probably NumPy [https://www.numpy.org], Pandas [https://pandas.pydata.org] and MatPlotLib [https://matplotlib.org]) it can come close to matching
Relearning Machine Learning Lapped by Fast.ai Well. This is embarrassing. At the beginning of last year I was working my way through fast.ai’s excellent Deep Learning for Coders [http://course18.fast.ai] course. Then, around the time I was due to start the last module, my life got very busy and complicated. To be
Ideas Which Changed My Perspective Platypus Categorisation Part one of short series of posts on ideas which have changed my perspective one way or another. Starting with something which massively changed the way I look at systems of categorisation.
Relearning Machine Learning A Swing and a Miss: Trying to Reduce English Uncertainty in IMDB Review Classification My mostly unsuccessful attempt to use the part of speech tagging to reduce ambiguity and improve performance in IMDB review classification with RNNs.
Relearning Machine Learning Kaggle’s Yelp Restaurant Photo Classification Competition, Fast.ai Style: Part 2 Hacks, improvements and graphs. Lots of graphs. Part 2 of my attempt to grapple with the Kaggle Yelp Restaurant Photo Classification competition, using the techniques (and code library) from fast.ai’s “Practical Deep Learning for Coders” course.
Relearning Machine Learning Kaggle’s Yelp Restaurant Photo Classification Competition, Fast.ai Style: Part 1 Part 1 of my attempt to grapple with the Kaggle Yelp Restaurant Photo Classification competition, using the techniques (and code library) from fast.ai’s “Practical Deep Learning for Coders” course.
Blogger A Short Word About GDPR How this site will be handling changes required by the GDPR. Plus an aside regarding targeting types in Google AdSense.
Hacker An iOS Developer’s Opinions of Flutter A lengthy discussion of the Flutter cross platform UI framework and my feelings about it. TLDR: I like the Flutter framework a lot, but: I wish it used Swift as its programming language; and I find its facsimile of native OS components to be imperfect.
Relearning Machine Learning Fast.ai via iPad with Paperspace and Juno App Getting started with the fast.ai "Deep Learning for Coders" MOOC. Setting Paperspace to work as a compute backend, and using the iPad app Juno as the frontend.
Relearning Machine Learning Some Notes on Coursera’s Andrew Ng Deep Learning Speciality Notes on the Coursera Speciality which acts as a follow up to the Machine Learning course I discussed previously.
Relearning Machine Learning Some Notes on the “Andrew Ng” Coursera Machine Learning Course Some notes on the MOOC which is more or less the standard text for basic machine learning. Comparisons are made with Udacity's Introduction to Machine Learning.
Blogger Thinking About Going iPad... Mostly Going “iPad only” is all the rage in some circles. I don't think it would really work for me. iOS still has too many limitations for that. But I do like the idea of using an iPad as my main “carry around” machine. Right now I use a
Hacker Smart Watches, Pilots’ Associates, and Travelling Salesmen I can probably be described as a wearable tech true believer. I bought in fairly early and have more or less stuck with it. As a device class it's still in the early stages, I think, but has a lot of potential. After all, humans have been putting
Hacker WWDC Predications Score Card Having made a point of making some WWDC predictions in my last post [http://harveynick.com/2017/06/04/yet-another-rambling-wwdc-predications-post/], it seems only right that I should look back at them after the fact and see how I did. I'd also like to talk about a couple of
Hacker Yet Another Rambling WWDC Predications Post Tomorrow is the opening keynote of Apple's WWDC[1] conference. Two years ago I predicted that Apple would open source Swift, and I was right[2]. Last year my predication was XCode [https://developer.apple.com/xcode/] for iPad. That didn't happen, but Swift Playgrounds [https:
Hacker When Apple (or Anyone Else) Really Gets a Product Right Being British, I have a story about tea. It goes like this: For my entire life, it had tasted wrong. Not bad, exactly, but not quite right. I tried all different kinds, and just about every brand I could find. I drank it without milk which made it taste a
Hacker The Lady Who Lives in the Tube on Top of The Fridge In our kitchen is a short white cylinder. Inside is an array of microphones, always listening passively. Whenever someone says the magic word it starts actively listening for instructions. This might be to start a timer, it might be to add something to our shopping list, or perhaps to turn
Hacker Building My Shiny New Website Part 3: Tech Stack This will be my last post on building the new implementation of this site. Having previously talked about the choice of platform [http://harveynick.com/2016/10/16/building-my-shiny-new-website-part-1-platform/] and the theme [http://harveynick.com/2017/01/15/building-my-shiny-new-website-part-2-theme/], I’m now going on a quick dive into all of
Blogger Goals for 2017 I don’t really do new years resolutions. They just don’t seem to work for me. I don’t see that there’s anything that special about January 1st. It isn’t even the first day of the year for a reasonable portion of the planet. Expecting to make
Hacker My Procedural Landscape Generation Project A while ago I started working on a procedural landscape generation project and then... I stopped. I didn't stop because I was no longer interested in the subject (I assure you I very much am), but because a) my free time got a lot more limited; and b)
Hacker Apple Keynote Live(ish) Blog Since I've never liveblogged anything before, I decided to give it a go with today's Apple WWDC keynote. The follow was written as I watched it. It has been edited for spelling and grammar (and to add a couple of links) but not for content. It
Hacker Material Design and iOS Disclaimer: the opinions expressed herein are my own, not those of my employer, and that’s what this post is: opinions. One of the complaints about Google’s iOS apps is that they look like Android Apps. Somewhat obligingly, Jason Snell recently published an article along these lines [http://www.
Hacker So I made an iPhone App Various things have kept me busy and away from this blog just recently. I've done a bit of traveling (both for business and pleasure), I've discovered Netflix (and Crunchyroll), and, somewhat more productively, I followed through on what started off as my "20% time"
Blogger Now We're Blogging with Photos! Fair warning: this is going to be a bit of a programming heavy blog post. It's also going to be quite Mac specific. One of the things I wanted to change about the format of this blog was to make it more visual, specifically with pictures. This first
