Ask HN: Is machine learning worth learning for hobbyists/pet projects?

Re:Ask HN: Is machine learning worth learning for hobbyists/... by rajacombinator on Friday May 04, 2018 @06:19PM (#16998871)

The secret (and possible barrier) to doing something interesting with ML is to have an interesting dataset. It’s definitely accessible if you’re willing to put in the effort.

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Re:Ask HN: Is machine learning worth learning for hobbyists/... by kace91 on Friday May 04, 2018 @06:57PM (#16999111)

Could you be a little more specific about that last part? Do you mean that interesting datasets are available somehow, or that the field itself is accessible?

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Re:Ask HN: Is machine learning worth learning for hobbyists/... by rajacombinator on Saturday May 05, 2018 @05:44AM (#17001083)

Both! But it can take some hard work to acquire interesting data and then figuring out what to do with it.

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Re:Ask HN: Is machine learning worth learning for hobbyists/... by Regardsyjc on Saturday May 05, 2018 @10:53AM (#17002035)

Amazon has a great repository of open data. You can go wild with these. [1] NYC also has tons of open data for their smart cities initiative. [2]

[1]https://registry.opendata.aws/ [2]https://opendata.cityofnewyork.us/

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