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How did Andrew Ng become so good at Machine Learning?
- crayon765 10y agoIf he was that good he wouldn't use Matlab/Octave to teach his class.
- DashRattlesnake 10y agoYeah, he should've totally used node.js /s
- analognoise 10y agoNo! R and Julia, or straight APL! /s
- bryanrasmussen 10y agoWhat!?! I heard he used Visual Basic 4 and puppets!
- IndianAstronaut 10y agoReading papers is so crucial. It is a great way to get ideas and apply them. I was able to set up some really good tree based forecasting models based on a PhD dissertation I had read once.
- ayanray 10y agoYeah I didn't get it until I read this. I've read a few papers before and some of them have been too abstract / unfamiliar for me to understand. I've had to read them slowly 3-4 times just to get it to 'click'. I think it takes practice to read papers, but once you have the habit, maybe you won't be able to stop.
- e19293001 10y agoAfter reading a paper, you might want to try getting a pen and paper then recall by writing what have you understood as if you are teaching to it others. If you can't recall what you've read then reread the paper to fill in the gap and test your understanding again. This method is called Feynman Technique.
- IndianAstronaut 10y agoWell...I somewhat cheat here. I ignore papers without any code or coded examples. I don't have the time or patience to implement something just from raw equations.
- tschwimmer 10y agoOff topic, but does it strike anyone else as strange that Quora is a platform to ask these types of questions (how come X is so good at Y)? After reading the headline, I knew immediately this was going to be on Quora. The questions often have some good content in response but they seem like they have some subjectivity baked in.