Hi, I’m Wasim

I’m a software engineer and data scientist.

This is where I share lessons learned during my projects, spanning notebook-driven development, artificial intelligence and software design.

You might also be interested in my full list of side projects and notes.

Previously, I held technical leadership positions in South African AI startups in manufacturing and agriculture. Before that, I was a professional DotA 2 player.

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One of my biggest motivations for sharing online is to connect with interesting people from across the world.

Email me at mwlorgat@gmail.com or DM me on Twitter or LinkedIn if you’d like to chat!

Recent posts

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Building a cost-effective image vector search engine with CLIP

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I built an image vector search engine for an eCommerce store in just one week costing only $30 per month to host. In this post, I explain how you can do the same.
2023-05-23

Write, document, test and distribute Python packages with nbdev & Quarto

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I attended JupyterCon 2023 in Paris two weeks ago. On Thursday, Hamel Husain, myself, and J. J. Allaire (as a teaching assistant) presented a two and a half hour tutorial on…
2023-05-22

How to build your own minimal Jupyter frontend

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A step-by-step guide to interacting with Jupyter Server and creating your own Jupyter frontend.
2023-01-12

Understand the math of diffusion without a PhD

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Walk through the math of diffusion models from the ground up with no prerequisites beyond high school math.
2022-10-23

How to write great Jupyter notebooks

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How to write great notebooks – everything we know about writing great notebooks after years of working with nbdev.
2022-09-19

Notes from the fast.ai APL study group

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APL is a way to learn and teach math. It’s a beautiful and powerful notation that challenges you to think about programming in new ways.
2022-07-05

How to build a text editor with Python and curses

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Work through a series of fifteen incremental coding problems ending with a minimal command line text editor.
2020-12-30

 

Doing important work

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Don’t try too hard to do important work.
2020-08-02

Code != idea

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Code is not an idea — it represents an idea. By considering the people who use our code, we minimize the cost of translating from obscure machine-friendly commands into beautiful prose, thus freeing our minds to focus on what’s really important: the ideas themselves.
2018-03-17
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