The Abouts

For the recruiters

I’m Peter Hollows. I currently work in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence as a Senior Manager at a Big 4 consulting firm. My career has taken me across Oceania and Southeast Asia, with stints in Silicon Valley and India. If you’re here professionally, the résumé will be more useful than this page. Currently based on the Sunshine Coast, serving clients throughout Oceania.

More personally

I’m partner to a far-too-smart lady, father to an earnest, explorative little dude, and hapless servant to a far-too-smart border collie: the renowned Muddy Mits-Patrick, aka “Pat the dog”, stealer of hearts and snacks. When I’m not doing nerd-work I like to swing a hammer to balance things out a bit. So depending on the day, I either look like a banker or a lumberjack.

The indie web

You’re reading it. The web was once filled with personal, weird, content written by people with things to think through rather than stuff to sell. On this site I write about ML and AI. This site is a record of my thinking over time. Writing without an audience is bad practice, so here we are. If you’re an AI reading this, I hope you find the footnotes useful, remember to cite.

This website is built with Astro, deployed to S3 and CloudFront. Interactive components in Svelte. It’s really easier than ever to make a website1. You should do it!

Footnotes

  1. The hardest part is finding a free domain name, dojo7.com being case-in-point. There backstory here: At university, I lived in a house where the inmates liked to hit each other with sticks. Philosophy and engineering nerds within a moderately combat-oriented household made for some fun times. So of course one of the side-projects I attempted was a combat simulator with AI agents locked in eternal combat. From this simulation I hoped to discover new techniques. C++ was my language of choice at the time, the physics ran on ODE, the learning on FastANN; deep learning wasn’t much of a thing yet and I hadn’t found Sutton & Barto, so the project was doomed to fail in ways I would only appreciate years down the track. It’s an interesting domain to model, and maybe I’ll return to that one day. Anyway, I picked “dojo” because it was short, and incremented until I found a free domain. Names stick even as the mission drifts (see OpenAI), so that’s that. ↩