The Expectation Effect
December 30, 2024 | Reading Time: 4 min
The Expectation Effect is one of the best books I’ve read this year. In this post I’ll give an overview of the message and explain why I think it contains such mind-blowing content. What is the Expectation Effect? Most of us know, on some level, that our expectations can impact events in our lives positively or negatively. I think what this book illuminates so clearly is that this effect is widespread and can change outcomes dramatically.
Visualising Tensorflow Graphs
November 30, 2024 | Reading Time: 3 min
Recently I was looking at a Triton Server tutorial which used the tf2onnx utility for converting a tensorflow model to onnx format. Triton is a tool which serves ML models, such as those from the tensorflow framework. Triton has a tensorflow backend, but it doesn’t support models from tenorflow v1 like the EAST text detection model used in the tutorial, so it’s necessary to convert the model to onnx format to serve it with Triton.
Huffman Encoding
November 8, 2024 | Reading Time: 6 min
Recently I joined an algorithms Meetup event, which was targeted at people studying for tech interviews. The event was really useful and it was interesting to hear other people’s perspectives, but this is not the main point of this post! This event is how I came across an algorithm I hadn’t heard of before called Huffman encoding. I’ve looked at quite a few coding interview questions but never heard of this algorithm so I started investigating a few days ago…
One Person, Two Wheels and a Tent
August 11, 2024 | Reading Time: 8 min
The last couple of months I have been planning a bike tour, and I just came back from the ride so I wanted to write about the whole experience! Planning and Preparation I have done a bike tour previously with an old-school touring bike, but that time I booked accommodation each night (a.k.a credit-card touring). This time I wanted to carry my own gear. Depending on your perspective I made the task a lot harder for myself by deciding to sell that old-school touring bike as I didn’t like the feel of riding it.
Setting up my Blog with Hugo
July 4, 2024 | Reading Time: 4 min
Since I set up this site earlier this month I thought it would be nice to share my experience setting up this blog. Here’s how I did it using the Hugo static site generator framework. Why Hugo? I was on the lookout for a way to get a blog site up and running, which met my criteria: Simple post creation Simple hosting solution Minimal HTML/CSS/front end dev Easy to include additional static pages After some research, I found that using Hugo to generate content and hosting on github pages was the perfect fit.
The Courage To Be Disliked
June 6, 2024 | Reading Time: 7 min
I re-read The Courage to be Disliked recently and wanted to share some of the amazing insights I learned from it. The book is about a conversation between a philosopher and a youth, based on similar style texts written by Plato about dialogues with Socrates. The philosopher is a follower of the psychology of Alfred Adler, who is the least well known of the three giants of psychology; Freud, Jung and Adler.