I'm a month into my initial Reinforcement Learning Roadmap and a couple things have changed. First of all I've been accepted to University of Michigan Dearborn to begin a Doctor of Engineering degree in January 2026. Second my learnings from the first four weeks have convinced me that I need …
My journey into understanding machine learning began with a 12 week learning syllabus that chatGPT prepared for me. That lead me to the Coursera Deep Learning Specialization which I just completed. The quality of Coursera specialization was excellent and I have a good understanding of the...
I heard the term "Full-Breadth Developers" on a episode of Changelog this morning. While I agree with everything Justin says in his post I have a, perhaps controversial take on new terms that are popping up for developers these days. Software developers today are just what they were when I …
This is a summary of my first 8 weeks following my 12 week deep learning path generated by ChatGPT. The journey focused primarily on Andrew Ng's Deep Learning Specialization on Coursera, which proved to be an excellent foundational resource. Week 1: Neural Network Fundamentals I started with the...
This issue caused me way more time than I would like to admit so I'm writing this blog posting in hopes it will help someone else and save them some time. I'm in the process of making the switch from developing with vim directly on Linux servers to using VS …
Research truly is a winding path. I started along a path of interoperability of digital health records looking at protocols, current systems and considering methods for modifying protocols, filesystems with very high level goals of: Putting control of the full health record including charts,...
In thinking about creating and maintaining this blog I had a few requirements to keep it simple, learn a few things along the way and hopefully work on my goal of coding more this year. You can find the an example git repistory here to start with. Requirements Keep it …
This post originated from comments John Carmack made on Lex Fridman's podcast (41:04) about motivators for software developers "Everything we're doing really should flow from user value". He goes on to talk about how exercises like code golf are great challenges and completing or "winning" them...
This post is adapted from a paper I wrote for a masters course in early 2024. Introduction Ransomware is a global problem that has significant financial and business operations impact to organisations that are victims of attacks. The proliferation of Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) has led to an...
Taking a page from Will Larson's blog and his year in review postings I decided to start tracking my own goals. I haven't decided on the actual timelines for these goals but based on what I am putting here today these 12 month to 6 year goals. Obtain a Doctor …