I'm continuing to focus on RL prediction steps 1/2 of the Alberta Plan. In my first experiment, I showed that IDBD diverges almost immediately on the real honeypot data I'm collecting and testing with. Given enough time Autostep fared much better but …
My strategy for learning the foundations and contributing to the Alberta Plan for AI Research is to begin at Step 1 and work my way through the plan, learning and reading the associated literature as I go. This should give me a solid …
Research is rarely a straight line. For me, the path began thirty years ago when I first graduated with a Computer Science degree. Now, at age 50 and serving as a CISO in the healthcare sector, I'm …
As I officially begin my D.Eng, I've been eager to start producing something. My method of learning has always been to understand things "under the hood". I don't feel I fully understand concepts until I can learn them from the …
I've completed the University of Alberta Reinforcement Learning Specialization which involved reading most of the Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction. In my original and updated RL learning roadmaps I was striving to actually start implementing something. I did get a start on some Pytorch implementations of basic algorithms but ended up …
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 foundations of deep learning …
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.
I started with the basics of …
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: