Dominik's Blog

How I got my first job in the Software Industry without finishing even half of my studies

After finishing my second year (of 4) of computer science I thought that I would like to work some time in the summer to earn some extra money and maybe work part time while studying after that. Little did I know that after a month I would end up with my first job in the software industry. It all began with some simple job search, after I sent my first CVs to the typical student workplaces (Department stores, Cafeterias, Call Centers…) I started noticing a lot of software job offerings. Read more...

Stanford's Machine Learning Course: Week 2

https://xkcd.com/1838/ So on monday I finished the second week of Cousera’s Machine Learning course by Stanford University. First it started with some basic steps for installing Octave/Matlab, I obviously chose Octave over Matlab as it’s free software. After that there were some videos about Multivariate Linear Regression, it’s basically the same as linear regression so their wasn’t much difficulty, although in the final video Andrew started talking about polynomial regression and how we could use it for fitting better our models. Read more...

Stanford's Machine Learning Course: Week 1

For some time I wanted to learn the basics of machine learning. So after some research I found Cousera’s Machine Learning course by Stanford University and that it would start yesterday. So after reading all the great reviews about the course I enrolled and started it a week ago. The content is completely free, but if you pay 74€ you’ll get a certificate if you pass. First week Andrew Ng is a great teacher who explains the material very well. Read more...

How I built my Blog

So this is my first blog post on my freshly made Blog, and what better way to start than going full meta and talk about how i built it. Gotta go fast! One thing that I made priority when building this blog was making it pretty light and fast inspired by this article. What I took from it is that today’s websites are way to bloated and that prevents a lot of people with slow internet speeds of not being to enjoy them. Read more...

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