Re:Introduction to Machine Learning for Coders: Launch
by zawerf on Friday September 28, 2018 @04:50PM
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> (especially) techniques for tabular data, start with the machine learning course.
Do you think DL techniques are going to better than traditional techniques for tabular data in the future?
This is in reference to your article: http://www.fast.ai/2018/04/29/categorical-embeddings/ and lessons 3 and 4 from the DL course.
Re:Introduction to Machine Learning for Coders: Launch
by jph00 on Friday September 28, 2018 @05:10PM
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Yes probably. For instance, there's been interesting recent examples from Pinterest and Instacart (amongst others) who found that DL-based approaches for tabular data reduced the engineering and maintenance headaches due to less need for manual feature engineering.
Although decision tree approaches maybe will continue to be faster to train in many cases. At the moment, it really helps to be familiar with both approaches.
Re:Introduction to Machine Learning for Coders: Launch
by ja1215 on Friday September 28, 2018 @05:03PM
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Thank you for the clarification.
Re:Introduction to Machine Learning for Coders: Launch
by ultrasounder on Friday September 28, 2018 @04:39PM
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Great answer!.
Also, the machine learning course was originally the initial introduction for a masters program, so it is a little less intensive and fast moving. But it also assumes a little more math background in parts, since everyone in the program already was pretty familiar with linear algebra, probability, and statistics.
In the end, the two courses go together pretty well, so I don't think it matters too much what order you do them in.