Published inDavid Moore·Mar 7Member-onlyHogwarts Legacy on PCMaking it work well on an older PC — no need to buy that new console today! Hogwarts Legacy has just emerged for PC and newer next-gen consoles and naturally we were curious and wanted to have a bit of a play. …Gpu8 min readGpu8 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·Nov 1, 2022Member-onlySpeeding up Pandas and Python, why?A theme in my reader — is Python slow? — As of late, I've been seeing a lot of articles about speeding up Python and Pandas. Indeed I even wrote one myself and demonstrated how to use Rapids and CuDF to get brilliant performance from a capable GPU. But why do so many take to their computers to write about…Esg7 min readEsg7 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·Oct 26, 2022Member-onlyDoing Explanatory Data AnalysisIs it possible to do it entirely on a GPU? — I always felt in the dark about how useful these GPU devices are when we aren't interested in training deep learning models. However, recently I read articles about Pandas and how to speed up processing. Those articles left me a bit curious, so I decided to power up my Data…Exploratory Data Analysis7 min readExploratory Data Analysis7 min read
Published inDavid Moore·Sep 11, 2022Member-onlyProfessional servicesA reading list Like many around the world, I did time in a Big 4 firm. During that period, I had a book reading list which I referenced as I experienced life in “the firm”. I would read specific chapters in these books when some behaviour seemed odd. …Big 41 min readBig 41 min read
Published inDavid Moore·Jun 17, 2022Member-onlyBuilding an environmental monitoring system from scratchFrom nuts and bolts to heads up display with real time analytics I built an entire end to end Home Monitoring system from scratch. Better still I made 16 videos on YouTube as a series and explained everything. The following articles are associated with the project How I Built…IoT2 min readIoT2 min read
Published inPython in Plain English·Jun 17, 2022Member-onlyResolving My Extensive Reading ListPart IV: Cleaning and closing whilst drinking my coffee — Whilst I drank the morning coffee, my computer worked for me! My little helper automation cleaned up my extensive reading list for me. I certainly don’t feel like my laptop replaced me; instead, it assisted me in doing a horrid chore. I believe advances in AI and automation are natural…Automation6 min readAutomation6 min read
Published inDavid Moore·Jun 16, 2022Member-onlyCreating an NLP web applicationFrom scratch and doing it all on my own I have done many side projects, but the ones I love the most are building web applications from scratch. So here is my story behind building a prototype application called justresumes.net.Startup2 min readStartup2 min read
Published inDavid Moore·Jun 16, 2022Member-onlyAutomating a simple taskCleaning up an extensive reading list using Python I recently wrote a series of articles where I discussed an ad-hoc method I used to perform an analysis and clean up a reading list here on Medium. …Selenium2 min readSelenium2 min read
Published inPython in Plain English·Jun 15, 2022Member-onlyResolving My Extensive Reading ListPart III: Exploratory Data Analysis using Python — I have 853 stories on my medium reading list, down from 956 after removing unavailable articles. Part I and II of this series discussed cycling through my reading list on Medium and grabbing some data for analysis. I explained how to clean the list by removing deleted articles in Part…Python6 min readPython6 min read
Published inPython in Plain English·Jun 14, 2022Member-onlyResolving My Extensive Reading ListPart II: Cleaning up removed articles from my list — I recently went to see Top Gun Maverick, a film that appears to have been more than a decade in the making. I enjoyed it!. Earlier in June 2022, I wrote about my extensive reading list here on Medium and started to explore ways to extract the value from the…Python34 min readPython34 min read
