I’m Ian Hubbard, if you’re reading this, welcome!

Bio.

I’m obsessed with computation and machine intelligence. I’m an engineer, working cross-functionally in marine propulsion hydrodynamics, computational fluid dynamics and machine learning engineering @ Wärtsilä Propulsion.

I am a husband and a father of two (one human, one doggo), I boulder and I cook. I am Canadian born with Maltese background and have dotted around 4 countries so far; currently stationed in The Netherlands. I studied mechanical engineering, maritime engineering and specialized in numerical hydrodynamics and applied ML.

I have spent my life trying many things. Sometimes I go in hard on something, sometimes I quit prematurely because my attention is torn away to something else. These are the experiences I draw most of my ideas and inspiration from.

slow polymathy, why?

The polymath draws connections across multiple fields, using perspectives and insights from one domain to inform direction or solutions in another. I’ve spent most of my career doing this instinctively, pulling between physics, numerics, and machine learning, without ever being deliberate about it.

This blog is an attempt to be deliberate about it.

My intention is to minimize a loss function: the residual between where I am now and something closer to modern polymathy. It will never converge, but I can hope to slowly reduce the error. The posts here; micro-projects, ideas, explorations at various depths, represent the gradients.

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If you vibe with any of this and care to connect, feel free to reach out!

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