Teaching an AI to count

April 24, 2023

Neural networks are a powerful tool in machine learning that can be trained to perform a wide range of tasks, from image classification to natural language processing. In this blog post, we’ll explore how to teach a neural network to add together two numbers. You can also think about this article as a tutorial for tensorflow.

Serenity of Bird Photography

October 31, 2022

I like photographing birds. I take our dog for a walk, drink a coffee, then I often go to the yard to capture those feathered creatures. It’s a ritual to collect my thoughts and prepare for the day. There might be a few lessons there which are applicable for another parts of life (and work).

10 Years of Dotfiles

June 1, 2022

A recent Hacker News thread got me to revisit my dotfiles repository and reflect on the tools I’ve been using for the past 10+ years. Technologies like the cloud and docker came, but surprisingly nothing major has changed in these years.

Monitoring OPNsense with Zabbix and Grafana

April 20, 2022

OPNsense is an open source, easy-to-use and easy-to-build FreeBSD based firewall and routing platform. It’s gaining in popularity against PfSense.

AWS Cloudfront index.html subdirectory access denied issues

April 4, 2022

Cloudfront enables you to host your static website via s3. You should set your root object to index.html to rewrite https://yourdomainname.com to https://yourdomainname.com/index.html for cleaner urls. However you might run into an issue of having subdirectories in your s3 bucket that you want to do the same for (for example on hosting a hugo blog). Unfortunately Cloudfront doesn’t support this by default.

Go 1.18 interface{} to any conversion

March 24, 2022

Go 1.18 brought us great new features, such as generics, fuzzing and workplaces. It also has a new alias for interface{} to a more understandable any.

Analyzing Bearable data export with Python - Part 2

February 19, 2022

In the previous section we looked at how to build basic plots of your bearable data in python. Today we are going to check out correlations between factors, just like we did in R.

Analyzing Bearable data export with Python - Part 1

February 15, 2022

In my previous blogposts we looked into how we can analyze Bearable data export with R. Today let’s look at how we can do something similar in python.

Why Write Technical Articles

February 14, 2022

I don’t have many people reading my blog, on most days I get about 5 visitors. Why on earth should I keep writing articles? The chance of landing a job is slim and I certainly won’t earn any revenue from the site.

Analyzing Bearable data export with R - Part 3

February 9, 2022

In the previous two sections we learned how to draw some graphs and how to look for correlations between factors. Today we will look into how we can correlate your mood with factors.

Analyzing Bearable data export with R - Part 2

February 7, 2022

In the previous section we learned how to process Bearable’s date field, and how to visualize some data points. Today we will learn to look for correlations between factors.

Analyzing Bearable data export with R - Part 1

February 5, 2022

I use the Bearable app to track my mood, energy levels and sleep quality. Bearable app gives you rudimentary data analysis about the factors influencing your metrics. However we can do better.

Nootropic selfexperiments

November 17, 2013

I have always been fascinated by the idea that we can significantly improve our wellbeing by making relatively small changes: exercising, changing our diet, adding some supplements.

Kornel Lugosi