Bill de hÓra 1/2/25 Bill de hÓra 1/2/25

Some Books Were Read: 2024

Here are some notes on a few books I enjoyed and learned from in 2024, not all of which are books published that year.

Bill de hÓra 6/19/24 Bill de hÓra 6/19/24

A Local AI Model Setup for Apple Macs

In this post we’ll cover how to get multiple machine learning models running on Apple using Ollama, open-webui, and for image generation, stable-diffusion-webui.

Bill de hÓra 4/11/24 Bill de hÓra 4/11/24

Machine Learning for Engineers: Book List 2024

At the end of 2019, I posted a book list for engineers new to machine learning, to help develop basic knowledge of the fundamentals, organised into four groups: Machine Learning & Algorithms, Tools & Frameworks, Data Science & Analysis, and Companion Mathematics. This post provides an updated book list using the same groups, which have held up well. At the time the list covered 26 books, this iteration is more concise, covering 11 books. This time around 3 are new, and 3 have seen updated editions in the interim.

Bill de hÓra 1/12/22 Bill de hÓra 1/12/22

How I use Org Mode

I’ve mentioned more than once how effective I find org-mode as a productivity tool and organiser, without really explaining why. This post describes how I use org mode and why it’s been such an important application for well over a decade.

Bill de hÓra 1/4/22 Bill de hÓra 1/4/22

Some Books Were Read: 2021

Here are some notes on a few books I enjoyed and learned from in 2021, not all of which are books published that year.

Bill de hÓra 9/1/21 Bill de hÓra 9/1/21

What I’ve been reading

Some notes on some books.

Bill de hÓra 1/3/21 Bill de hÓra 1/3/21

Some books were read: 2020

Here are some notes on a few books I enjoyed and learned from in 2020, not all of which are books published that year.

Bill de hÓra 8/11/20 Bill de hÓra 8/11/20

Start with the Customer Experience

Bill de hÓra 6/4/20 Bill de hÓra 6/4/20

I Will Light You Up

Today's Sandy speaks is going to focus, directly, on my white people.

Bill de hÓra 5/25/20 Bill de hÓra 5/25/20

Technical Prime: Enabling Engineering Decisions & Work

Technical Prime is a lightweight mechanism for enabling clarity of decisions and who’s working on what, that also affords learning and knowledge sharing.

Bill de hÓra 12/18/19 Bill de hÓra 12/18/19

Machine Learning for Engineers: Book List

In 2018, I posted a series of introductory, hands-on and more advanced book lists for engineers new to machine learning, to help develop a basic knowledge of machine learning fundamentals. This post provides an updated set of book recommendations reflecting changes since then, and an improved grouping for the books into mathematics, machine learning, data science, and programming tools.

Bill de hÓra 12/17/19 Bill de hÓra 12/17/19

Some books were read: 2019

Here are some notes on a few books I enjoyed and learned from in 2019, not all of which are books published that year.

Bill de hÓra 6/2/19 Bill de hÓra 6/2/19

Reasoning about Leverage in Engineering Organisations

Leverage is an important concept for an engineering organisation. When we are debating whether to standardise and on what, which technology tools and stacks to use, whether to add new technology, replace an old system with a new one, which programming languages to use and how many, under the surface we are ultimately talking about or around, the topic of leverage of technology.

Bill de hÓra 2/24/19 Bill de hÓra 2/24/19

Principles

A set of principles that have been meaningful and helpful to me. Nothing particularly originally, just that this set of approaches have worked as I’ve gone along. It took me a while to identify some of these, and in more than one (!) place, some time to figure out the would work and how to apply them 😀

Bill de hÓra 1/17/19 Bill de hÓra 1/17/19

MacBook Pro 2018 & Software Essentials

After 3 years, it was time to retire the old Macbook Pro 2015 and replace it with a 2018 touchbar model. Also some thoughts on software essentials since the last time I went through things, back in 2010 for a W500 Thinkpad, the last non-Mac laptop I used before switching.

Bill de hÓra 1/12/19 Bill de hÓra 1/12/19

Paper Reading 📄

A list of technical papers and memos that I want to read or re-read. I’d love to get recommendations on other papers especially from the last decade, that seem important or in some way foundational.

Bill de hÓra 1/4/19 Bill de hÓra 1/4/19

Thoughts for 2019

It's always interesting to look at the year ahead in technology, and so, some thoughts about 2019! These are less predictions, more extrapolations of what's already happening.

Bill de hÓra 12/23/18 Bill de hÓra 12/23/18

On Rust

Back in 2013, I started a series of posts on programming languages I found interesting. One of the languages I wanted to write about at that time was Rust. As often happens, life got in the way, and it’s only now that I’m coming round to a long overdue post. This is one of a series of posts on programming languages and you can read more about that here.

Bill de hÓra 12/13/18 Bill de hÓra 12/13/18

Some books were read: 2018

Here are some notes on a few books I enjoyed and learned from in 2018, not all of which are books published that year.

Bill de hÓra 7/7/18 Bill de hÓra 7/7/18

Machine Learning For Engineers: Reading List 3

This is the third of a set of reading lists for software engineers who want to develop their knowledge of machine learning. Part 1 looked at introductory books, Part 2 looked at programming books. In this post, we'll look at some of the more advanced machine learning books.