Blog detailing my journey learning Julia and ML

Hi all. I don’t post on here very often, considering that I’m just a hobbyist and not a highly trained professional like most folks on here, but I am a Julia enthusiast, and so when I can I like to share what I’ve worked on in my spare time.

I recently decided to publish a few blogs, one of which describes my experience learning Julia and using it to implement a custom MLP. Yeah, I know. The world has moved well beyond MLP’s into LLM’s, etc. The blog explains why I chose to implement an MLP, so I won’t do that here. So, anyway, if anyone is interested in what is capable with Julia even in the hands of someone who isn’t a trained professional, feel free to check out my blog post.

https://jamesr137-blog.hashnode.dev/my-journey-learning-about-ml-and-implementing-an-mlp-from-scratch

There are three other blog posts posted related to the first one, one of which describes the creation of my own personal image processing library for data augmentation, while the other two are mostly benchmarks of the functions in this library. I did reference two existing Julia image processing libraries, and I benchmarked my code against the functions in these libraries. I hope I wasn’t out of line by naming them in the posts, since my intention was solely to do a comparison of the various functions.

Anyway, if anyone reads my blogs, I hope they get something out of them. Take care.

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