Ask HN: How to get started with Machine Learning?

Posted by imheretolearn on Sunday August 06, 2023 @09:56PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm currently a Software Engineer looking to transition to Machine Learning. I know a lot of people recommend Andrew NGs course as a first step towards Machine Learning. There are so many resources out there and so much information it's difficult to understand where to begin and how to proceed. I wanted to hear from someone in the field what's the best track to becoming a Machine Learning Engineer?

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Re:Ask HN: How to get started with Machine Learning? by Bostonian on Sunday August 06, 2023 @10:01PM (#37029124)

"Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems, 2nd ed." by Aurélien Géron (2022), published by O'Reilly, is one of my favorite technical books ever. It was published before LLMs became hot.

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Re:Ask HN: How to get started with Machine Learning? by Greamy on Monday August 07, 2023 @04:33AM (#37031873)

I believe the math background is quite important in ML, and having a good understanding of it from the beginning helps tremendously. You can check my answer from before here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36477464

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Re:Ask HN: How to get started with Machine Learning? by tikkun on Monday August 07, 2023 @09:16AM (#37034019)

See my comment here plus the other comments in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36433289

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Re:Ask HN: How to get started with Machine Learning? by xchip on Monday August 07, 2023 @07:08PM (#37042189)

I would start using Google because it's not the first time someone asks this question

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