Hi all,
My name is Aki and I live in Helsinki, Finland.
Iām a life long learner and a āhackerā.
Been interested in Machine Learning ever since I joined Andrew Ngās brilliant Machine Learning course in 2011 - the dawn of MOOCs. After that Iāve followed a many Deep Learning courses including the legendary Hintonās Neural Networks for Machine Learning (didnāt pass, but learned a lot). Iāve also followed the beautiful Abu Mostafaās Machine Learning course on youtube. And of course the truly informational cs231n by Andrej Karpathy. I hope Iām not forgetting some course that I should give credit hereā¦
However, this course has been the first one that gave me the abilities to do my first submissions for Kaggle competitions. And for this I canāt even think of a way to give enough thanks to Jeremy and Rachel for this beautifully designed course!
I got my first computer as a present from my dear godfather. This is it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprofessor_II
Thatās how I began my interest in computers. Back in the 1990ās, at the age around 14-15 years I was running my own BBS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system). Ever since Iāve been more than keen to learn everything about computers.
However, I havenāt (never went to uni, at least this yet) got a formal education in Information Technology.
Currently, for bread, I program Perl.
Itās a coincidence, but before joining this course, last December (iirc) I switched my email provider to Fastmail and Iāve been really happy with their service. Thank you Jeremy for the great service! Only moan about the service is that itās rendering ascii-smileys as happy face images (luckily this āfeatureā is only on when viewing the messages and actual recipients see the ascii-smileys as they are).
Of course I would like to help the world with the Deep Learning skills learned here, but if Iām honest, Iāll hope that some day Iāll get an idea for a Deep Learning app that will provide passive income for me for the rest of my life. Then I could more easily concentrate on helping the world with my computer skills.
Thanks to Jeremy and Rachel for making this course that gives me the possibility to make my dreams come true!
Happy hacking to all of you!
Best regards,
Aki