productivity Productivity Tips: Time Blocks As I've started my freelance machine learning consulting business this year, I found I need better ways to organize my time. When I was employed as a software engineer, there
machine learning Learning to machine learn tl;dr: I'm launching an introductory course about machine learning in Romanian. It's aimed not just at developers, but at a more general audience. De ceva timp mă bate gândul
learning Design patterns in real life In programming there are so called design patterns, which are basically commonly repeated pieces of code that occur often enough that people thought it would be helpful to give them
machine learning How to ML - Monitoring As much as machine learning developers like to think that once they've got a good enough model, the job is done, it's not quite so. The first couple of weeks
machine learning GPT-3 and AGI One of the most impressive/controversial papers from 2020 was GPT-3 from OpenAI. It's nothing particularly new, it's mostly a bigger version of GPT-2, which came out in 2019. It's
machine learning How to ML - Deploying So the ML engineer presented the model to the business stakeholders and they agreed that it performed well enough on the key metrics in testing that it's time to deploy
machine learning How to ML - Models So we finally got our data and we can get to machine learning. Without the data, there is no machine learning, there is at best human learning, where somebody tries
blog 2020 in Review 2020 might have been a bad year outside, but it was a good year for my blog. I wrote 62 posts, almost as many as in the previous 3 years
phone World's best phone case Yesterday I enjoyed the Australian Șuncuiuș Christmas weather while doing another Via Ferrata trail. It was much harder than the one I did last year. But as I finished the
machine learning How to ML - Data So we've decided what metrics we want to track for our machine learning project. Because ML needs data, we need to get it. In some cases we get lucky and
machine learning How to ML - Metrics We saw that machine learning algorithms process large amounts of data to find patterns. But how exactly do they do that? The first step in a machine learning project is
machine learning What is ML? part 3 Yesterday we saw that machine learning is behind some successful products and it does have the potential to bring many more changes to our life. So what is it? Well,
machine learning What is ML? part 2 Yesterday I wrote how AI made big promises in the past but it failed to deliver, but that now it's different. What's changed? Well, now we have several products that
machine learning What is ML? Machine learning is everywhere these days. Mostly in newspapers, but it's seeping into many real life, actual use cases. But what is it actually? If you read only articles on
machine learning Machine Learning stories: Misunderstood suggestions A couple of years ago I was working on a calendar application, on the machine learning team, to make it smarter. We had many great ideas, one of them being
consulting My next steps In November I quit my job as the tech lead of the machine learning team at Archive360. Starting December 1st I am looking to provide my services as a machine learning consultant.
networking Tailscale I want to share about an awesome piece of technology that I started using recently: Tailscale. It's a sort of VPN, meaning it sets up a private network for you,
shortcut Multiple cursors Multiple cursors are a feature that has been around for several years. I have heard of it first from SublimeText fans, but I always thought I don't need it. At
backup Backing up 4: The Raspberry Pi More than a year ago I described how I used Syncthing to backup folders from my NAS to an external harddrive attached to my parents PC. This was supposed to
programming Playing Codenames in Rust with word vectors In a previous post I implemented the game of Codenames in Rust, allowing a human player to interact with the computer playing randomly. Now let's implement a smarter computer agent,
reviews Tenet After many delays, the movie Tenet has finally come to the cinema. It's amazing. I loved every single bit of it. Almost 2.5 hours of pure awesomeness. #christopernolan4president This
trips Visiting Romania: The Black Sea Fun fact about me: until this year, I've never been to the Black Sea for touristy, sun bathing and relaxing purposes. I've been there 3 times before: the first time
hiking Visiting Romania: Șuior I have to admit that I haven't seen too much of my home country. I've set foot in at most half of the counties and I've actually visited and done
boardgames Boardgames Party: Azul Last weekend I played a fun game called Azul, which has won many awards, among which the famed Spiel des Jahres in 2018. The name comes from "azulejos", Portuguese tiles
docker Getting rid of vmmem A while ago I noticed in Task Manager that there is a process called Vmmem running and it's using about 5-15% CPU constantly. A quick duckduckgoing revealed that it's a
