I haven't written a blog post in a long time. It's been a tough year. Mostly from a health perspective. One of the highlights was when I cracked four ribs from coughing (yes, the doctors were just as shocked as you are). Before that, I used
interview
Yesterday my friend Marius Corici called me and asked me if I wanted to be interviewed (again) by ProTV, this time about deep fakes. This time it was a Zoom interview, and they asked me not to blur my background (ugh). And I had my second 15 seconds of fame
travel
The last couple of months have been quite busy for me. Consultant life is starting to pick up the pace (at least some aspects of it), especially the traveling part. It started in March: Make IT in Oradea, a startup incubator where I'm involved as a mentor, had
hiking
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 encouraged us with fun tales of how of them fell off/was thrown off a horse. Having not done anything
personal
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 disbelief about that label, but it's becoming true, especially since I launched my first
personal
I've written many times about various goals and plans I've had over the last couple of years. I blogged publicly about it because I had heard that precommitment helps with realizing goals. But, considering that many of the goals on those lists didn't get
personal
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. There have been plenty of moments where the predominant feeling was "what now?
blog
My blog has circled the Sun for another year. You got 37 more posts in the meantime. The Obsidian post was very popular, as was the Rust Codenames series. Vmmem issues are finding a solution on my blog as well. The second half of last year was slower than the
machine learning
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 să trec la următorul nivel de creare de conținut. Scriu pe blog de 10 ani și
phone
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 vertical ascent that is seen in the top picture, my phone slipped from my pocket, and fell about 15m. I
consulting
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.
blog
It's been almost two months since I have started the #100DaysToOffload challenge. During this time I have managed to write 25 blog posts, which is more than I wrote last year in total. But in June I found myself posting less and less often. What's going