Ask HN: How to get started with Machine Learning?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37029088

by imheretolearn • 3 years ago

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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?

Bostonian• 3 years ago

"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.

Greamy• 3 years ago

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

tikkun• 3 years ago

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

xchip• 3 years ago

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

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