• Learning to code

    Finding the code

    Why am I learning to code? I am seeing the first step of learning to code and program so to get to writing ML algorithms as a mission boot camp. If I am to be serious about my mission then I must be serious about where I train. But where I hear you ask do you start to teach yourself to code? I chose a Udacity nanodegree. (New to the blog and wondering what on earth is this person on about talking about missions I just want to learn to code! What is this mysterious mission? Find out in my post here: The Mission) Where to learn to code: finding…

  • Learning to code

    Entering the domain

    Write a blog they said… It’ll be great they said… You’ll love it! They said… And I believed them.  What they didn’t say was how f***ing complicated setting up a blog is, or how stressful. How hard could it be though? I naively thought. How do you set up a blog? Everyone’s got a blog these days and I have a masters degree, I’ll fly through the process… How wrong I was. Setting up a domain First of all you need to choose a web hosting platform and a domain name for your blog, but not just any name, ohhhh no. The domain name you choose has to be unique,…

  • Learning to code

    The Mission

    What is success? I must have read hundreds of articles preaching strategies to achieve success. They tell me pick up these habits, follow these simple steps, adopt these rules to live by etc. etc. etc. They all insist I get up approximately 4 hours earlier than I want to and eat exclusively plant based substitutes that cost 3 times the price of the original product. The question I have is, if I were to follow the steps and achieve success what would that mean? What is success? What makes something successful? How can I tell if I am successful? Who am I and why do I care about ‘what is…