🔭 Compiling 2025 : growing technical skills for more creativity

This is a submission for the 2025 New Year Writing challenge: Compiling 2025.

🤔 Forewords : about the "why"

First I'd like to mention that the more times goes by, the more I'd like to focus on an artistic path... which requires technical skills and knowledge to get freedom of creation:

At the core of all the work I produce there is curiosity, generally, it always starts with the following questions:

• Why does this...
• What if I was....
• I wonder if...

So my learning pattern is the following one :

• 🎯 Pick a specific question
• 🧑‍🎨 Learn the pieces of tech that helps me answer the question
• 📝 Write down what I learned to put things in order in my mind and achieve the work
• 🌌 Discover new questions

🧑‍🎓 Assesments and certifications

• Follow the machine Intro to Machine Learning learning path on Kaggle
• Pass the Hugging Face AI Agents Course 🤗
• Give a try to dlt and hopefully achieve some courses

🧑‍🎨 Creative

• Do some stuff around embeddings and make something creative w. Nomic AI for example around poetry, movies, politics
• Classify datasets and play with vectorial projection
• Try to write even a minimalistic novel

🇫🇷 Have a lot of fun by creating some "détournements" - getting some famous movie trailers and adding french subtitles to make jokes about IT culture - :

📰 Data-journalism

Now that I've grabbed a lot of skills and datasets on Kaggle, I'm very interested in putting data in perspective with traditional medias:

I find very interesting to see how I can fact-check or illustratre things thanks to Open Data and Open Source software. In a way, I find it like a crucial part of democracy.

Also on this journey, I learn a lot about very various topics and technologies, or sometimes produce new datasets.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Mentoring students

As each year, mentor interns at OPT-NC and produce some original tech creations. Here my work consist in identifying appealing subjects so CS students can come and give a try to produce something, regardless of their current skills.

So I have to create various pitches with various skills requirements so it's very opened to all for a maximum impact.

🎙️ Speaker at Events

• Maybe produce some creative Open Data content around Neo4J to show off at #NODES25
• Participate to Pacific dataviz challenge and try some new dataviz tools

🧪 Prototyping & discovering

• Play w. ollama structured output and fix some real life questions
• Write a python package with uv
• Grab some GOlang skills by building a cli
• Find a way to apply more mathemtic in concrete enterprise problems
• Perform a LLM fine tuning on top of Open Data
• Evangelize around Microcks
• Build something with my Sensecap Watcher:

📚 Books

I have a bookshelf with my to-read list, still here are the ones I absoluetly want to achieve in 2025:

Currently reading

... but here's what's in the pipeline:

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications
• Implementing Data Mesh
• Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
• The Software Architect Elevator: Redefining the Architect's Role in the Digital Enterprise
• The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots
• The Handmaid's Tale

🌊 Outdoor sports

• Make real progress in Wingfoiling ;-p

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