Leon Kotze
Human Interpretable Machine Learning
Read my write-up of an Machine Learning experiment I conducted to decide where to settle your first city in Sid Meier’s Civilization 6.
The Zen of cold showers
This is a story about a proverbial cold shower and many actual cold showers. Earlier this year I took voluntary redundancy in order to dedicate myself to our home renovation. Here is what I learned.
My first Data Science competition
I recently completed the “Microsoft Professional Program Data Science” certification that cumulated with a Capstone project in the form of a competition to predict the Prevalence of Undernourishment, aka PoU. I am happy to have finished in 5th position out of 441 participants, and this post is a summary of what I learnt during the competition.
How to Listen in a hectic world
By learning how to listen effectively in a hectic world, you get to make better decisions about the how and why of things.
Measurable Goals
I am sure you’ve heard of SMART goals, where SMART is an acronym for Specific, Measurable, Agreed, Realistic, and Timed. I prefer using VALUE when setting up goals: Verifiable – Quantity, Cost, Time (finite), and Quality (subjective). In general, we, as humans, try to avoid specifying these. Accountable – Need to drill deep enough down … Read more
Create a Data Product
This article covers the process of creating a data product, specifically a Direct Acyclic Graph representing the possible routes navigating to technologies and civics in Sid Meiers’s Civilization 6.
My wives
Short anecdote about how easy it is to misunderstand a situation, especially in the context of communication between different languages and cultures.
How to write an effective task
Defining a piece of work (task) effectively should consist of at least four parts: the step, the details, the deadlines, and the context.
Your values affect your decisions
Consider this post an expanded dictionary entry for a collection of related terms used in personal development conversations. For example, What are your values?