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Re:Introduction to Machine Learning for Coders: Launch by zawerf on Friday September 28, 2018 @04:50PM (#18096959)
> (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 (#18097094)
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.