hiking Roland tries new things: Horse riding My two brothers in law are fans of horse riding and last week they invited the rest of the family to join them for a day of horse riding. They
programming On the usefulness of a little bit of programming While I am a professional software developer (or machine learning consultant, to be more exact) and I have started learning programming more than 10 years ago, I went to college
gdcr Facilitating Code Retreat in Oradea After 8 years [https://rolisz.ro/2014/11/17/global-day-of-code-retreat-2014/], I finally went again to a Code Retreat, but this time as a facilitator, not as a participant. As far
personal To changes During the last 1 year I've had a lot of changes in my life. I became an independent machine learning consultant. Other people consider me an entrepreneur. I'm still in
learning Learning in Public: Exploring the BT iPay API Dan Luu [https://danluu.com/productivity-velocity/] and Jamie Brandon [https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/moving-faster/] have argued quite successfully that increasing your productivity and velocity as a developer can lead to
personal The right time for every habit I've written many [https://rolisz.ro/2011/06/29/planuri-de-vacanta/] times [https://rolisz.ro/2016/01/01/setting-goals/] about various goals [https://rolisz.ro/2017/01/07/new-year-old-goals/] and plans
tech Opening Jupyter Notebooks in the right browser from WSL I mentioned last year [https://rolisz.ro/2020/06/14/operating-system-journey/] that I've slowly moved back to using Windows more and more. In the mean time, my transition is almost
personal Half a year as an indie consultant It's hard to believe it's been more than half an year since I started my own company and became an independent machine learning consultant. It's been a very interesting ride.
blog Happy 11th Birthday! My blog has circled the Sun for another year. You got 37 more posts in the meantime. The Obsidian post [https://rolisz.ro/2020/07/28/obsidian/] was very popular,
tech Working across multiple machines Until this year, I usually had a laptop from my employer, on which I did work stuff and I had a personal desktop and laptop. The two personal devices got
productivity Productivity Tips: Time Blocks As I've started my freelance machine learning consulting [https://rolisz.com/] business this year, I found I need better ways to organize my time. When I was employed as a
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 [https://rolisz.ro/2019/11/
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 [https://rolisz.ro/2020/12/21/what-is-ml/] I wrote how AI made big promises in the past but it failed to deliver, but that now it's different. What's changed?
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
