Re:Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available ...
by barbecue_sauce on Monday November 26, 2018 @12:00PM
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I haven't had a lot of time to look at the offering, but can anybody tell me if these courses have any theory, or are they just for promoting specific AWS ML services without going into the underlying complexity?
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Re:Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available ...
by gmiller123456 on Monday November 26, 2018 @03:46PM
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I looked at what I could about the courses on the "Developer" path (mostly just the titles of the different sections of each course), and there's obviously a very heavy focus on AWS ML services. Also my general impression is that the courses are too short to actually cover in depth what they say they're covering. Probably good for an overview.
Re:Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available ...
by ghaff on Monday November 26, 2018 @12:49PM
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I haven't looked in detail but the description strongly suggests an applied ML focus (which would be very typical of IT certifications in general). In AI/ML, there's some overlap between applied AI and research AI--e.g. you're going to want to know something about statistics in any case--but I'm not sure the distinction is always appreciated.
Re:Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available ...
by barbecue_sauce on Monday November 26, 2018 @08:20PM
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Is there a cert to go along with the courses?
Re:Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available ...
by ghaff on Monday November 26, 2018 @08:30PM
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Some online courses or groups of online courses have certs associated with them. Some don't. Whether those certs are worth anything from a job hunting perspective is going to depend on the cert and who is looking at them. Very situationally dependent.
Re:Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available ...
by barbecue_sauce on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @08:21PM
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I was specifically speaking with regard to this offering. AWS has a pretty mature certification program (though I think was recently outsourced), so I figured they would have some sort of certification track to motivate people to consume their educational resources.
Re:Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available ...
by WhompingWindows on Monday November 26, 2018 @10:28PM
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Checked out data science, there's a good amount of general stats in there. It's also in their interest to educate people so that they could become customers once they understand the basics/theory.
Re:Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available ...
by new_printer on Monday November 26, 2018 @02:23PM
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There is a "Math for Machine Learning" course.
Re:Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available ...
by applecrazy on Monday November 26, 2018 @03:16PM
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I just flipped through that course. It covers just vectors, matrices, probability, and derivatives. A better (and faster) resource is to use chapters 2-5 of Deep Learning by Goodfellow et al, but the mathematical detail in that book may be offputting for beginners.
Re:Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available ...
by new_printer on Monday November 26, 2018 @05:28PM
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I agree with your comment. The AWS course recommends that you should skip the class if you either minored or majored in math.