Viv O’Brien

A developer who deeply cares about crafting unique, immersive web experiences, currently focused on building micro-SaaS products using the indie hacker approach

[Viv O’Brien @iamvob]

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Once upon a time, I gave my resignation notice to my boss. During my transition, we actually had some productive feedback conversations, and he remarked, "This is great stuff, how come we didn't do this all the time?" Well, there were two reasons...

[Viv O’Brien @iamvob]

Petition: Cancel GCSE and A-levels in 2021 replace with Course Work and Teacher Assessment https://t.co/o6917eapJ5

[Steve Schoger @steveschoger]

🔥 This two-column form layout is great for organizing long forms and filling wider screens without using awkward long form fields.

[Viv O’Brien @iamvob]

Always confused by people saying they are self-taught programmers. Are we not all self-taught? #100DaysOfCode

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Excited to read Ray Dalio - Principles today

[Ken Lee @Leeoku]

Feels bad after having scheduled in-person technical interviews delayed due to covid.

Just gotta keep up that same preparation.

[Viv O’Brien @iamvob]

Happy to have time to focus on my craft and continue to study Data Structures & Algorithms for technical interview preparation. I have set up a repository to document my journey: https://t.co/97ekoGxsTV Any advice, reach out! #100DaysOfCode #interviewprep

[Viv O’Brien @iamvob]

I put interviews on hold to work on my thesis which meant missing out of opportunities. However I am happy with my thesis and I have made the job search a full time job from Monday. Hopefully something will come up soon 🤞

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#AOC https://t.co/SGV4w1vylx

[Viv O’Brien @iamvob]

I would not be okay if matplotlib didn’t exist. I’d love to learn more about data visualisations in the future. Maybe D3.js or tabulea will be my next challenge 🤔 #machinelearning #DataScience #movingaverage #exponentialsmoothing

[Viv O’Brien @iamvob]

Feeling grateful for all the inspiring people I have met on my coding adventure over the last year. I remember this time last year going to Noisebridge FreeCodeCamp everyday in San Francisco Mission and learning JavaScript on https://t.co/Uqei9NtITK

[Viv O’Brien @iamvob]

Being a self conscious coder is the single worst mindset to have. It’s more important to focus on the logic and breaking everything down step by step than questioning your abilities. If it can be done, you can do it. Period #100DaysOfCode

[Viv O’Brien @iamvob]

The solution to my randomised results is fixing the random seed. A neural network reassigns different sample weights every time it runs. If I set random seed = 1, this sets my weights at a constant value 🤯#fascinating #NeuralNetworks #100DaysOfCode #ML

[Viv O’Brien @iamvob]

It’s 2am. I had been debugging code all day. I seemed to be sure of what was going on underneath my code. Every time I ran my model it produced different results despite no random variables. More debugging to find the answer. Then the thought occurred:

[Viv O’Brien @iamvob]

One of the many days I have spent debugging for 12 hours but finally starting to get some interesting results in my model #MachineLearning #lstm #COVID19 #forextrading

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Implemented some hyper parameter optimisation for my LSTM model over the past few days, still getting some strange performance results. It’s hard to stop the obsession to figure it out and take a break but I just want it to work!! #100DaysOfCode