The Winter Throat

I like to occasionally write articles about things that pique my interest at work, or opinions that I form over the years.
Cypress or how I learned to stop worrying and love E2E

Cypress or how I learned to stop worrying and love E2E

🇺🇸 englishPublished May 2021 (at 31)#technology2599 words9 mn to read

Over my career I've dabbled in various forms of testing, both on the back-end and front-end. I've tried various frameworks, experimented with different approaches, types of tests and philosophies, from unit tests to Gherkin behaviour tests to E2E tests with Selenium in the good ol days. And yet despite all this I don't consider myself good at testing, because I can be very lazy and that I tend to...

Learning Machine Learning: Neural Networks

Learning Machine Learning: Neural Networks

🇺🇸 englishPublished April 2021 (at 31)#ai2447 words8 mn to read

In the last article, I left things off at this image and said that the next thing I wanted to learn was to make a neural network recognize the digits in this picture. It's a very well-known problem, and there's countless content written about it (and this particular set of digits), but that's what makes it a good first problem to tackle, and a good way to learn neural networks. So how do we get t...

Learning Machine Learning

Learning Machine Learning

🇺🇸 englishPublished January 2021 (at 31)#ai1537 words5 mn to read

I've always been fascinated by science fiction and the advances of technology. And AI/ML has often represented a huge chunk of that because to me it's the closest way that I, as a single person, can create life and feel like a god. And that's really what most of science fiction is about 🤖! I've tried a couple of times to get into it, I read things here and there, watched talks, but none of my at...

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I like to occasionally write articles about things that pique my interest at work, or opinions that I form over the years.
Cypress or how I learned to stop worrying and love E2E

Cypress or how I learned to stop worrying and love E2E

🇺🇸 englishPublished May 2021 (at 31)#technology2599 words9 mn to read

Over my career I've dabbled in various forms of testing, both on the back-end and front-end. I've tried various frameworks, experimented with different approaches, types of tests and philosophies, from unit tests to Gherkin behaviour tests to E2E tests with Selenium in the good ol days. And yet despite all this I don't consider myself good at testing, because I can be very lazy and that I tend to...

Learning Machine Learning: Neural Networks

Learning Machine Learning: Neural Networks

🇺🇸 englishPublished April 2021 (at 31)#ai2447 words8 mn to read

In the last article, I left things off at this image and said that the next thing I wanted to learn was to make a neural network recognize the digits in this picture. It's a very well-known problem, and there's countless content written about it (and this particular set of digits), but that's what makes it a good first problem to tackle, and a good way to learn neural networks. So how do we get t...

Learning Machine Learning

Learning Machine Learning

🇺🇸 englishPublished January 2021 (at 31)#ai1537 words5 mn to read

I've always been fascinated by science fiction and the advances of technology. And AI/ML has often represented a huge chunk of that because to me it's the closest way that I, as a single person, can create life and feel like a god. And that's really what most of science fiction is about 🤖! I've tried a couple of times to get into it, I read things here and there, watched talks, but none of my at...