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:

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  A Trade of Blood by Robert Jackson Bennett

  ★★★☆☆

  In A Trade of Blood, the third book in Robert Jackson Bennett’s Shadow of the Leviathan series, Din and Ana travel to Lacanthim to stop a brewing clan war. Castus Armenta, heir to a powerful cattle clan, has been caught literally red-handed after the murder of Zansay Burav, the daughter of his family’s only rival.

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  The Event by Henry Bean

  ★★★★☆

  The Event, by Henry Bean, is a short story about the destruction of Israel and Palestine, narrated by a researcher who can barely keep his own life together.

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  Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

  ★★★☆☆

  Stories of Your Life and Others, by Ted Chiang, is a collection of 8 short stories and novellas. The concepts range from alien linguistics to the literal nature of God, but reading them together reveals a strict logical formula that sometimes lets the ideas overshadow the narratives.

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  Burning Chrome by William Gibson et al.

  ★★★★☆

  Burning Chrome is a collection of short stories by William Gibson. It features both solo and collaborative works, some of which are the earliest written stories in the Sprawl universe.

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  Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson

  ★★★★★

  Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson, is the third and final book in the Sprawl series. It brings together characters from both previous books—Molly, Angela, Bobby, and the ghost of 3Jane—around a device that can hold the entirety of cyberspace, and maybe a human soul.