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Fit-testing Technical Animal Welfare Careers
I skipped my bi-monthly update for December and January, so this is me catching up. Going forward I’ll write these after completing a fit test rather than on a schedule. December I mostly took off for Christmas, but I managed to fit in three things: The Course More technical than I expected, which was good.…
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Annual Review – 2025
What went well Not as Planned Career / Finance I was made redundant in April of last year, and started investigating different career paths around May or June. My intention with this is to find a career that’s more impactful, either altruistically or for solving interesting technological problems while maintaining the benefits I had from…
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Fellowships & Python Tests
This Autumn has been a bit of a mix of continuing with Arena, being sick, and applying for half a dozen fellowships and courses. Claude and Astra’s fellowships both required code signal’s industry coding assessments. I did a week of preparation for both of them before taking the test but did a lot worse than…
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Deriving forward pass recursive formulae
For an exponential moving average (EMA), we have the following formula to use in our torch.forward() method. In order to use it in our forward pass, we need to express this in terms of the previous running average, where the upper limit of our summation is ‘T-1’ aka EMAT-1 as we’ll be recursively calculating this…
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ARBOx & ARENA
For July & August my focus has been up-skilling for AISafety. I was accepted on to ARBOx which involved a week of studying their prerequisites, 2 weeks attending an in-person crash course in Oxford and then self-studying the fairly extensive ARENA syllabus the course had utilised afterwards. 30/06/2025 ARBOx 07/07/2025 ARBOx 14/07/2025 Travel / Planning…
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Deciding what projects to take on
Unless you have something specific in mind planning a career switch can be daunting. What is feasible, where can I get training or experience, what should I prioritise when overloaded with. When trying to decide what to work on during my career switch break I try to use a weighted factor model. This consists of…
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Changing Career – Preparation
I recently left my job with the intention to change career at the ripe age of 36. I’ve been an iOS developer for 12 years and a professional poker player for the 6 years before that. iOS development gave me almost everything I wanted. A career I enjoyed, was good at, paid well, could work…