Machine Learning for Humans: A Beginner's Guide to AI/ML

https://medium.com/machine-learning-for-humans/why-machine-learning-matters-6164faf1df12

by vmaini • 9 years ago

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minimaxir2• 9 years ago

A slightly-off topic note:

There's often complaints on posts like these that adding Machine Learning to any HN submission title will result in instant upvotes.

Yesterday, I built a deep learning model which can predict the optimal time to submit a post to Hacker News to maximize point score, and also predict the general probability of hitting the front page. In the context of this post, incidentally, the title is too verbose; both the point potential and and prob of hitting the front page is higher if only using the second half (w/o the explicit "Machine Learning" invocation): http://i.imgur.com/5vOTTXo.png

pen2l• 9 years ago

Is that Jupyter?

I'm kind of a python/ML newb, am curious to know: when doing ML stuff, do you guys usually do it interactively with Jupyter? The whole process of preprocessing, graphing, reducing dimensions, ML... do you prefer to do it one-by-one in Jupyter or Jupyter-like envrionment vs. just make one big python script? Just curious about common workflows.

minimaxir2• 9 years ago

Correct. For common workflows, see my post comparing Jupyter Notebooks and R Notebooks: http://minimaxir.com/2017/06/r-notebooks/

Never do data analysis in "one big Python script" if you value your sanity.

SoMisanthrope• 9 years ago

IMHO HN is getting saturated with these articles. It's all good, I know that's it's a popular subject. So, just and observation.

blennon• 9 years ago

I agree with this. If we're talking about the same thing, many of these are "Machine learning for hackers" type articles and only give a superficial exposure of machine learning with the implicit promise of quick and easy mastery. The problem is, there's really only one way to master this stuff and it's to open up a textbook and study hard. You really need to get a rigorous treatment of the theory to understand machine learning.

Ma8ee• 9 years ago

Can you recommend any particular textbook on the subject you like?

auvrw• 9 years ago

there are chapter endnotes and an appendix that looks very helpful.

meta-texts like this one are a must, because the subject is so broad. moreover, i find a lot of the oft-recommended books in this area very noisy on the theory side.

i imagine all of all of the available resources will improve in quality and become more standard over time.

crisopolis• 9 years ago

I agree also I keep seeing so many articles, tutorials, guides, etc on how to do machine learning, neural nets, a.i., etc. It's like so... which one is the right one, or which one can actually get me from A to Z the easiest.

dchuk• 9 years ago

This looks pretty nice on a brief skim. Would love if it was packaged as an ebook rather than a bunch of medium posts.

esfandia• 9 years ago

They have a link at the bottom of the page where you can send them an email to get a pdf. You might receive more than just the pdf...

Machine Learning for Humans: A Beginner's Guide to AI/ML

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