Confidence, over time
I actually passed. The theory went first, then the practical work, and that changed what I thought was possible for me.
Hi, I'm Oli 👋
I build things with data and machine learning.
But I didn't start here.
Age 15
I started finding opportunities.
Real estate
Garment exports
Google & Yahoo ads
RMB · Dollar · Euro
I moved to Shanghai when I was 15.
I was building on intuition. What I didn’t have was the formal toolkit.
I saw the world.
Then I came home.
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Built an e-commerce store
Discovered machine learning
This is when everything changed.
03 / Learning Curve
How I Fell in Love with Machine Learning
The first Udacity ML Nanodegree gave me a sequence of proofs. Each one lifted my confidence.
Self-taught atlas
Udacity
YouTube
Coursera
Khan Academy
OpenStax
reddit + forums
I taught myself with the best free resources available, and got into ETH Zurich.
Kaggle, Global Ranking
Top 0%
out of 200,000+ data scientists worldwide
I found what I love doing.
I love forecasting. I love the treasure hunt of exploring data and finding patterns by manipulating features. I love building systems and tools. And I never stop learning.
