Hello, my name is Bert (76). I guess I am a bit of a dinosaur when it comes to computing. I started in the 1970s with basic programming on a Tandy TRS-80: no hard drive, no mouse, no internet, but an audio cassette tape drive for storing programs.
I became involved with the local university’s computer centre, programming on the Univac 1108 in Fortran. I even used punch cards to store programs. Later, while working as a system administrator at a scientific institute, I got my own mini VAX, which at the time had an amazing 128 MB hard drive. Since retiring, I have continued to do a lot of programming.
Over the last few years, I have become very interested in neural networks and LLMs, and I was delighted to take your course because you provide a solid theoretical foundation and use Jupyter Notebooks, going through the code line by line. I am a bit old-fashioned and prefer to run programs locally, especially since I live in Brazil, where the internet connection is not always reliable. In fact, just last week we had a six-hour blackout because a van ripped down the internet lines on a nearby street.
Because you explained the code in such detail, I was able to get all the notebooks running on my Mac mini, even managing to force OpenCV (cv2) to use the GPU.
Thank you very much for this course. It was extremely helpful, combining practical applications with a solid theoretical understanding. I am looking forward to starting your next course on AI Agents.
Parabéns pelos seus excelentes cursos!
-=b=-