Learning to code as a full-time doctor 🩺 At the start of 2018, I had recently graduated from medical school. I knew basic web development and not much more. Since mid-2020, I’ve been working full...
One of the most common questions I get asked is how to get started on the route to becoming a data scientist (or building technical skills, more broadly). There are things that are easy for me to ...
📑 Building a portfolio: the rule of 3 To be taken seriously as a technical person (or any area, really), you need to have something to show. Anyone can say “I can code in Python”. You have to make...
Background 3 years ago, I had just finished medical school and started working full-time as a doctor in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). Now, I work full-time as a data scientist at dunnhum...
📈 Accelerating early progress with technical friends Coming from a medical background, I didn’t have the first clue about how to develop coding skills or data science understanding. And neither di...
Our education system encourages us to “learn lots about X” before actually doing anything with the knowledge. We’ll spend a term in math’s class learning about differential equations. Then, maybe, ...
👟Deciding my next steps with content creation The purpose of this week’s newsletter is to figure out what direction I want to go in next in the area of ‘content creation’ with my blog, youtube cha...
I’ve often had goals - sometimes in my head, at other times written down - but until now I’ve had no central place that I’ve stored them. Inspired by Thomas Frank’s “Impossible List”, I’ve decided ...
As part of my on-going quest to utilise the benefits of the internet without succumbing to the adverse effects, I decided to create some personal rules to guide my actions. I’ll share them here in ...
After hearing about the AI technique of ‘style transfer’, I decided to try my hand at creating art work. The basic idea of style transfer is that you take the style of one image (e.g. a painting b...