What 2 Years of Self-taught AI Engineering actually looks likeI have the logs, the version numbers, the line counts, the dead ends and the breakthroughs. This is what 2 years of self-taught AI engineering actually looks like. A year ago I published an article about a "One Year Syllabus For Learning Software an...Nov 14, 2025·12 min read
Basic Android App Building: ArchitectureI've been learning Kotlin for Android App development for a few months now. I thought I would make some notes on what I've learned about the basics of app archecture so far. From what I understand, Jetpack Compose as it stands has moved android devel...Jul 22, 2024·7 min read
One Year Syllabus for Learning Software and A.I. Development "MSc"This year, I will be mostly learning about Artificial Intelligence.Dec 31, 2023·9 min read
Speech Analysis: Accessing whisper.cpp in PythonIn the conclusion of my last article - about my search for a suitable Open-Source Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model - I decided to try and pursue whisper.cpp as a model, along with a set of Python bindings that allow us to access the otherwise...Oct 28, 2023·9 min read
Are we in the (Dark) Information Age?Over the past few decades, the world has experienced an explosion of information. The number of apps and software options is the largest it's ever been, and growing. Our personal data is distributed across local systems, backup hard drives, multiple ...Oct 21, 2023·11 min read
Searching for a Python-based Speech Recognition Engine (for CPU Inference)To give my Ai learning a context to ground into, I'm writing a funny little app I've called VoxPlan (in Python) which allows you to organise goals and tasks in a hierarchical tree and display them in an interactive GUI. I'm very interested in explori...Oct 18, 2023·7 min read
Can We Design Intelligent Systems?Hello. My name's Richard. Quite a long time ago now (almost 20 years!), I graduated with a Bachelors of Science in a field called Cognitive Science, from a nice little institute called Exeter University in Devon, in the UK. Nobody had really heard of...Oct 13, 2023·5 min read
