Former UK.gov IT man and Python king's guide to neural networks If you're going to learn about neural networks, you could do worse than learn it from someone who got five A levels (all grade As), has his MSc in Advanced Computing, and can tell you how to build your own neural network in 30 lines of code, even if you don't know any calculus. There aren't many people fitting that description …
Well... his advice was so good that they had to make up a "Cloud first" policy to stop an Open Source first policy. I guess other parts of the Government received pressures as a successful Open Source policy could have killed someone's' monopoly on the public sector and the nation.
He wrote also a nice set of recommendations that since he left hasn't been updated just in case civil servants discovered better ways to do things:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/78964/Open_Source_Options_v2_0.pdf
Relevant official page linking to that document cannot be found any more.
Indeed. "That enabled them to expand from using just BlackBerry devices into support for Android, iOS and Chromebooks. "I was proud of that," he adds" Most still using Blackberry phones, odd bits like MoD accept Apple in "some" places. Some are using Windows OS phones.
Android? CESG passed Samsung Knox a couple of years ago but hasn't got traction yet.
But yes, Seems a nice guy. But why years working in a relatively low paid job!
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