Thomas Nield
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December 2, 2024
Machine Learning from Scratch
The risks of trusting black boxes, from lack of insight to complete misuse, often outweigh the benefits of convenience. Expert Thomas Nield takes you on a highly practical deep dive into ...
December 3, 2024
LLM Safety and Security
Planning and Mitigating Safe LLM Systems Course Outcomes: Understand the role of context and larger systems in the safe usage of LLMs Apply concepts of ground truth and trust in the ...
January 14, 21 & 28, 2025
Deep Learning for Beginners in 3 Weeks
Problems that were previously hard for computers to solve like computer vision and audio recognition have made enormous strides due to these powerful techniques. But how do these mysterious black boxes ...
January 15 & 22, 2025
Data Engineering Fundamentals in 2 Weeks
Managing the Lifecycle of Data Projects Course Outcomes Discern and organize roles of data engineering, and how those roles impact others in an organization Manage the data engineering life cycle and ...
Bio
Thomas Nield (author of Getting Started with SQL) is a business consultant for Southwest Airlines in Schedule Initiatives. Early in his career, he became fascinated with technology and its role in business analytics. After becoming proficient in Java, Kotlin, Python, SQL, and reactive programming, he became an open-source contributor as well as an author/trainer for O’Reilly Media. He is passionate about sharing what he learns and enabling others with new skill sets. He enjoys making technical content relatable and relevant to those unfamiliar with or intimidated by it.
Currently, Thomas is interested in data science, reactive programming, and the Kotlin language. You may find him speaking on these three subjects and how they can interconnect.