Hi there!

I’m Alex Gude, a machine learning engineer with a passion for plots and algorithms, as well as cycling and photography. I got my start in the tech industry at Insight Data Science, after previously working as a high energy particle physicist at CERN and a cosmologist at Lawrence Berkeley Labs.

I write about whatever catches my attention here on this site; mostly that means data science, machine learning, deep learning, and software development. Follow me on BlueSky for real-time thoughts, and check out my Github page for code—bug reports and pull requests are always welcome!

Recent Writings

I write articles about machine learning, data science, and technology, as well as book reviews. You can find a sample of my most recent writings below:

Count Zero by William Gibson

Count Zero, by William Gibson, is the second book in the Sprawl series. It follows three strangers—a teenage hacker on his first run, a mercenary hired to extract a defecting scientist, and an art dealer tracking down mysterious boxes—as they’re pulled into a struggle between zaibatsus, the ultra-rich, and something stranger.
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson, is a satirical cyberpunk novel set in a near-future America where the federal government has collapsed and everything—pizza, religion, neighborhoods, national defense—is run by competing franchises. It follows Hiro Protagonist, a hacker and pizza delivery driver, and Y.T., a teenage skateboard courier, as they uncover a conspiracy to reprogram the human mind.
Neuromancer by William Gibson

Neuromancer, by William Gibson, is the first book in the Sprawl series, and one of the founding texts of cyberpunk. In it, Case, a hacker who can’t jack in anymore, and street samurai Molly Millions are hired by a mysterious ex-special forces agent to pull off a heist.
I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter by Isabel Fall

I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter, by Isabel Fall, is a novelette about a pilot whose gender is reassigned to “attack helicopter” to make her a better soldier. It follows Barb as she bombs a high school, wrestles with what she’s become, and asks what gender even is.
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame, follows Mole, Ratty, Badger, and Toad in a story of bucolic life in the English countryside: playing around in boats, long summers, and the pull of home.