Machine Learning for Engineers: Book List 2024

April 11, 2024 by Bill de hÓra in books

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.

How I use Org Mode

January 12, 2022 by Bill de hÓra in self

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.

Some Books Were Read: 2021

January 04, 2022 by Bill de hÓra in books

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

What I’ve been reading

September 01, 2021 by Bill de hÓra in books

Some notes on some books.

Some books were read: 2020

January 03, 2021 by Bill de hÓra

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

Start with the Customer Experience

August 11, 2020 by Bill de hÓra in design

“You've gotta start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you going to try to sell it.” — Steve Jobs

I Will Light You Up

June 04, 2020 by Bill de hÓra

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

Technical Prime: Enabling Engineering Decisions & Work

May 25, 2020 by Bill de hÓra in systems-engineering

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

Machine Learning for Engineers: Book List

December 18, 2019 by Bill de hÓra in books

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.

Some books were read: 2019

December 17, 2019 by Bill de hÓra

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

Reasoning about Leverage in Engineering Organisations

June 02, 2019 by Bill de hÓra in software, systems-engineering

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.

Principles

February 24, 2019 by Bill de hÓra

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 😀

MacBook Pro 2018 & Software Essentials

January 17, 2019 by Bill de hÓra

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.

Paper Reading 📄

January 12, 2019 by Bill de hÓra in programming, papers

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.

Thoughts for 2019

January 04, 2019 by Bill de hÓra

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.

On Rust

December 23, 2018 by Bill de hÓra in on-languages, programming

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.

Some books were read: 2018

December 13, 2018 by Bill de hÓra

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

Machine Learning For Engineers: Reading List 3

July 07, 2018 by Bill de hÓra in books

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.

Machine Learning For Engineers: Reading List 2

April 02, 2018 by Bill de hÓra in books

This is the second of a set of book reading lists written from the point of view of a software engineer who wants to develop a basic knowledge of machine learning. In Part 1, we looked at some introductory books to the discipline. Herein, we'll look at some more hands-on programming books.

Machine Learning For Engineers: Reading List 1

January 13, 2018 by Bill de hÓra in books

This is the first of a series of book reading lists written from the point of view of a software engineer who wants to develop a basic knowledge of machine learning fundamentals. In this part we'll look some introductory books and some background books for machine learning mathematics.