Twitter: @ben_coman; Discord: BenComan#8536; LinkedIn
Howdy all. My first career was a Sys Admin for Windows, Linux and a variety of Unix flavours.
Currently I work here as an Electrical Power Engineer to design and construct electrical distribution systems up to 33kV for mine sites and industrial plants, to power plant like crushers, stackers, reclaimers.
I just started my ML journey this year with the 2022 Part 1 course. Wow. A real eye-opener. I’m excited by my result in my first Kaggle competition by following the path laid down by Jeremy. I’m very much looking forward to getting a peak under the covers at how the lower layers work together.
p.s. I’m a long time contributor to a niche programming language Pharo Smalltalk, with grand ambitions of porting fastai to Pharo (though I’ve yet to pull my finger out to start on that). For anyone who likes to learn a new language every now & then to stretch their paradigms, here are some tasters:
- MountainWest RubyConf 2014 - But Really, You Should Learn Smalltalk - YouTube [28 min]
- 7 minutes of Pharo Smalltalk for Rubyists - YouTube [7 min]
- PharoLambda Serverless Debugging (Short Version) - YouTube [8 min]
- IWST2017 - DataFrame - Towards exploratory data analysis for Pharo - YouTube [5 min]
- Visualizing complex data on Pharo: Roassal 3 :) - YouTube [3 min]