👋 Hi, I'm Farid AKA Freddie. A computer engineer and Data Science professional from Canada 🇨🇦
📫 How to reach me: Send me a message via my LinkedIn profile
👨💻🏦👨🏫 In the past, I've worked as a software engineer, a quantitative financial analyst and an English teacher.
💻 These days I'm busy working as a freelancer on a number of AI/ML projects, including an open-source LLM project, a personal project involving CNNs, and content authoring for a major MOOC provider.
🌎🌍🌏 I have lived and/or worked in 4 countries and traveled to another 5.
💭 I live to learn. I've dabbled in photography, electronic music production, astronomy, philosophy, languages/linguistics and more.
💬 I'm a native English speaker and فارسی زبان مادریام است و 日本語も良く話せます。そして je suis en train d'apprendre le français maintenant.
🤖 I recently got into microcontroller and microprocessor DIY projects (Arduino, Raspberry Pi) and I'm loving it! I'm tinkering and thinking of getting a 3D printer at some point, too.
🏕️ I love nature. I enjoy solo camping and going for walks/hikes.
🎮 I like board games as well as video games as an art form. (But few video games pass the "art" threshold).
💜 Other things I like: I love mathematics, books and audio books, and film. (Though, again, fewer and fewer movies pass the "art" threshold these days. Also sadly I don't really have time to watch movies anymore.)
My favourite podcasts and YouTube channels:
🎙️ Lex Fridman
🎙️ Corridor Cast
🎙️ Numberphile
🎙️ 3Blue1Brown
🎙️ CoRecursive
🎙️ Heavyweight
🎙️ Programming Throwdown
🎙️ Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) 🖥️ Jacob Geller 🖥️ Corridor Crew 🖥️ Numberphile 🖥️ 3Blue1Brown 🖥️ Veritasium 🖥️ Stand-up Maths 🖥️ Steve Mould 🖥️ Dr. Geoff Lindsey 🖥️ Adam Neely 🖥️ ElectroBOOM 🖥️ Sisyphus 55 🖥️ J. J. McCullough 🖥️ Zach Freedman 🖥️ Ben Eater 🖥️ Jonathan Blow 🖥️ GreatScott! 🖥️ DIY Perks 🖥️ Stuff Made Here 🖥️ Vsauce 🖥️ Vsauce2 🖥️ NeetCodeIO 🖥️ Mark Rober 🖥️ Nerdforge 🖥️ Medlife Crisis 🖥️ StatQuest 🖥️ Ordinary Things 🖥️ Captain Disillusion 🖥️ Branch Education 🖥️ Noclip 🖥️ Maker's Muse 🖥️ Hedron Rockworks 🖥️ ArjanCodes 🖥️ Thomas Flight 🖥️ Adam Savage's Tested 🖥️ Alex