The omnipresence of technology nowadays has made it commonplace to read news about AI, just a quick glance at today’s headlines, and I get:

• This Powerful AI Technique Led to Clashes at Google and Fierce Debate in Tech.
• How A.I.-powered companies dodged the worst damage from COVID
• AI technology detects ‘ticking time bomb’ arteries
• AI in Drug Discovery Starts to Live Up to the Hype
• Pentagon seeks commercial solutions to get its data ready for AI

Topics from business, manufacturing, supply chain, medicine and biotech and even defense are covered in those news headlines, definitively the... read more

In the midst of a global pandemic caused by the SARS-COV2 coronavirus; I decided to start blogging. I wanted to blog since a long time, I have always enjoyed writing, but many unknowns and having “no time” for it prevented me from taking it up. Things like: “I don’t really know who my target audience is”, “what would my topic or topics be?”, “I don’t think I am a world-class expert in anything”, and many more kept stopping me from setting up my own blog. Now seemed like a good time as any so with those and tons of other... read more

Background

After many years of a corporate career (17) diverging from computer science, I have now decided to learn Machine Learning and in the process return to coding (something I have always loved!).

To fully grasp the essence of ML I decided to start by coding a ML library myself, so I can fully understand the inner workings, linear algebra and calculus involved in Stochastic Gradient Descent. And on top learn Python (I used to code in C++ 20 years ago).

I built a general purpose basic ML library that creates a Neural Network... read more