Mickey Beurskens

AI Engineer Tinkerer Shouting At Clouds

Resources

This page provides an overview of my open-source projects, talks and resources that I generally regard as useful.

Guess The Password 🗝️: A guessing game used to explore large language model guardrailing concepts.
My Blog 📖: The source code for my blog, written in Hugo.
Perry Doc Search 🕵: An early large language model based PDF document search prototype.

Forge Fire AI Engineering: Freelance AI application, data and software development.
Work With Me: If you want to make use of my expertise in your company or team, send me a message on LinkedIn or X.
Writing: You can find my writing on AI and other topics on my website.

Team Red - Hacking Large Language Models: At PyData Eindhoven - 2023, 30th of November
AI Demystified: At the Materials Fair convention - 2022, 30th of April

Learning resources and books, in no particular order.

FastAI - Practical Deep Learning: A great course on the basics of artificial intelligence engineering for programmers.
OpenAI Spinning Up: Comprehensive resource on reinforcement learning.
Neural Networks And Deep Learning: A bit of personal nostalgia, basics on how neural networks work and how to build them.
Neural Networks: Zero to Hero: Video series by Andrej Karpathy focussing on foundational, and at the same time practical, understanding of machine learning and large language models.

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Taleb
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Taleb
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Taleb
A Man for All Markets (Autobiography) by Edward O. Thorp
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Poor Charlie’s Almanack. The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger: by Peter D. Kaufman
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion: by Robert Cialdini
The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant: by Eric Jorgenson