Brian Drake
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 being an analytical immunoassay scientist, to a machine learning engineer. However, as I have studied and worked more in the field, I developed a love for the dscipline. So, I have kept studying and working, leading to my website/blog getting bigger, see what you think!
and of course thank you for visiting ☕
Trimester 2 | Completion | Graduate Certificate
Trimester 2 Absolutely Slipped Past!
Trimester 2 is officially completed, and with that, my Graduate Certificate in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence is complete! 🎉 It’s an exciting milestone, although it is already tempered by the reality that Trimester 3 has begun 🫠.
That being said the last trimester was packed to the brim with challenging but also rewarding concepts.
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Mathematical Foundations of Data Science: This course really gave me an understanding of key concepts like Limits, Summation, Matrices, Gradient Descent, Integration, and Google’s PageRank algorithm. I was even able to, eventually, wrap my head around Gradient Descent. I have developed such a deep appreciation of mathematicians now.
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Computer Science B: This subject was time consuming but worthwhile, I was taught how and where to Refactor code, Searching and Sorting algorithms, Dijkstra’s Shortest Path Algorithm, Graphs, and finally Trees. I enjoyed the new approaches to storing data and how pointers really help with data access, maintenance, and storage.
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