Motivation I recently wanted to explore how neural networks operate, and set up some of the models myself. I found a great course and guidance from my peers to get started but was not comfortable ...

or at least writing them down. Preamble Over the last month I’ve invested my time in improving various often-neglected skills. I was considering two different avenues: How my relationships imp...

The drive for a change Going into university, I got a new laptop to assist me with my studies. This was 7+ years ago now, and even the mid-life hardware updates I had performed to give it a new lif...

Desire to Code I wouldn’t claim to have taken a formal programming course and yet I feel confident in being able to come up with programmatic solutions to problems when necessary. This has always ...

Beginning the project I’ve understood how websites work on the surface level since I was a teenager. At various times, I’ve started HTML documents and got them to display on a browser — simple tex...

Motivation The first instruction I was given on how to build a website by my Computer Science teacher when I was young, was to open a Word (2003) document. I was made to write basic HTML with &lt...

Adventures in CTF activities Once in a while, I want a riddle or a puzzle to solve. Capture-the-flag challenges are always able to scratch this itch. So I’ll spend an afternoon going through an in...

You can do two things when buying a knock-off product: Understand that you might be getting something inferior and accept it. You did willingly spend less money, after all. If you don’t want to...

An introvert’s suggestion Over lunch, we noticed that people started to migrate to different tables randomly without much explanation. Once confronted they said that they didn’t want to be social ...