Overview

Welcome to my blog, regardless of how randomly you've arrived here! Also, this web space doesn't discriminate between human beings and search-engine robots¹, so congrats for having joined the party (intendedly or not ;) )!

Given the above, dear reader, you're now officially entitled for sampling serialized items from the bizarrely random distribution of thought processes going on in my head. Please, find an excerpt from the very source code powering said thought processes:

# Found somewhere in the ` __init__` method.
self.add_tag("#PerpetualStudentOfLife")
self.add_passions({'Data Science', 'AI', 'football'})

# Further down in the main event loop.
if self.alive():
    yesterday = datetime.datetime.now() - datetime.timedelta(days=1)
    self.improve(directions={Criterion.BETTER, Criterion.SMARTER},
                 baseline=yesterday)

As it can be easily inferred at this point, the predominant nature of blog-post topics will span across the areas of programming, data science, analysis and visualization - sometimes seasoned with a bit of football² flavour³.

Feel free to visit my GitHub profile for a sample of my programming mastery (or "mastery" ;)). Alternatively, you can view a list of literally all GitHub pull requests of mine, that have ever been made. I'm an avid reader and podcast listener, and I've recently put together a list of all #Python, Machine Learning and #DataScience-related podcasts that I follow on a daily basis. A similar list of books might follow.

The definition of t₀

It all started when I was 7 or 8 years old. It couldn't be distinguished from any other visit to my aunt's flat, yet nevertheless that particular one turned out to change my life. Forever.

I found myself leafing through a random book on the BASIC programming language, intended for beginners. For the life of me, I can't remember its title, but it was one of those typical BASIC books, where you're presented with a bunch of programs, spread over several pages, and if you'd want to interact in a bit more engaging way with them, you'd had to laboriously type in the code, character by character (and, yes - in the case of BASIC - along with line number, too).

A peculiar characteristic of that book was the it was greatly illustrated, and the bugs in the programs were represented as cartoons of computerised bugs. I couldn't stop devouring the pages, one after another - everything just clicked⁴.

That marked the beginning of my love affair with abstract representations, skyscrapers built upon layers of logic and the alluring notion of attempting to create artificial intelligence⁵.