Data & Machine Learning & Product
Previously: 2020 2020 2018 2016 I realised that I hadn t written one last year publicly. I think I have written some privately but I can t find the document. I m going to try to keep up this year in review thing publicly where I can. Firstly it goes without saying that this year has been a Continue reading 2022 in Review
I ve been very excited about AI for years, and have worked with Deep Learning, NLP, formal logic, and Bayesian Statistics methods for over a decade. However, one problem that we ve had is making AI useful . We haven t really had a new paradigm as such in computing for a while. I feel this is the top Continue reading What AI means for building new products
At http://www.aflorithmic.ai we re building infrastructure for creating audio experiences. Fundamentally, there s a huge part of creativity involved there. And personally I believe the human creativity is almost limitless. Previously I spent a lot of my career building tooling and infrastructure for data scientists and researchers. So while I m not a super expert on Api design, Continue reading…
A friend said to me recently startups need to delight their users, and have an exceptional customer experience . And that sounds like a trite, and repetitive sentence. But like a lot of cliches in life, it s true. I was thinking recently about how many experiences I have with companies as a consumer or a Continue reading Delight your users
This is s short blog post. And is merely some links I came across this week. https://www.fullstackpython.com/wsgi-servers.html a great introduction to WSGI servers in python. I hadn t seen this written up before https://sudhir.io/understanding-connections-pools/ Long read. This is a thorough and in-depth discussion of how connections and pools work. I must admit that while Continue reading Some…
I have a small document where I try to weekly write goals and what I ve achieved. Sometimes I don t update it, but I reviewed my 2020 version and will try to take out some takeaways. Covid-19 was incredibly disruptive to our lives, but it accelerated digital transformation in a number of industries, and we saw Continue reading Lessons from 2020
I m an Entrepreneur, and a few years before I officially became one. One of my best friends said to me I ve always thought you were very entrepreneurial . I think I shirked away from that. I ve thought recently about why a I shirked away from that for a few years. I think one reason is that Continue reading Everything great starts small
I ve been thinking a lot lately about Engineering Leadership. This is a very difficult job for all the reasons that leadership is difficult, management is difficult and that software development is a difficult discipline. For various reasons we as a species suck at writing software. Writing great software is HARD. Nevertheless we as a Continue reading Engineering Leadership: Lessons from Rugby
More meetings? At Aflorithmic we recently have been experimenting with Friday Wins. It s important in a startup to enable the company to build things and talk to customers. This matters a lot to building something people want . However, I wanted to talk a bit about a meeting style that I ve found that works pretty well, Continue reading Friday wins celebrating shipping and delivery
I m going to use a bit of a click bait title for this article. But the aim of this article is to share experiences I ve gathered from about 10 years building ML systems, and building ML teams. Why ML is about more than ML I saw the following tweets by Erik so I ve added them. Continue reading Why building ML systems is about more than ML?