Stop for one second and ask yourself a simple question. Where do your words come from? When you speak, what comes first, the idea or the word? Do you first feel a thought inside you, and only after that go searching for the right word to wrap around it? I think we all do. The word is never the start. The word is just the skin. The idea, the consciousness, is the thing sitting under it. ...
A perceptron is the smallest brain you can build. One number goes in. One yes-or-no answer comes out. That is the whole thing. It sounds too simple to matter. But this tiny idea is the seed of every neural network running today. In this post we build a perceptron from scratch in Python, and we watch it learn, live, in your browser. No heavy math. No big libraries. Just a weight, a bias, and a loop. ...
The Ticking Clock December 13, 2023. It was the last day of my post-graduate IT project management program at Seneca. I was looking at a $30,000 CAD education loan. This included $20,000 for my first-year school fees and $10,000 for the GIC, which was mandatory in 2023. Worse than the debt, I did not have a professional tech job. I was only working part-time at Jump+, which was not going to help me secure my PR. ...