Brian Drake

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Hello, I'm Drake

I am currently a PhD researcher, looking at causal AI for decision making.

I originally put this website together to document my journey from immunoassay scientist to ML engineer. However, the more I've engaged the more I love about the dscipline. And so the website grows!

And of course thank you for visiting ☕


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21 May 2024

Trimester 2 Begins!


The First Week Of Trimester 2

As much as the relaxing has been nice, the new trimester is also a nice return to routine.

For this Trimester I will be completing Mathematical Foundations of Data Science and Foundations of Computer Science B.

I seemed to somehow have forgotten that I would have to learn some mathematics for this degree. I haven’t completed a mathematics course since my undergraduate, way back when, within Statistical Practice 1 (Life Sciences). The math this week was daunting but was still accessible. We were looking at all things dataframes within python, as well as set theory, functions, and summation.

… I have already gained an increased appreciation for mathematicians.

The Foundations of Computer Science B course has been good. I have learned more about shell and Unix. Both topics that I glazed over in my preparations for this course but am grateful to be learning. I look forward to learning more formally about Git next week though. That way I dont ruin my own repositories again haha.


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