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Ask HN: What AI courses/material should I choose?
Posting it here again since it didn't get much attention yesterday.
I'd describe myself as someone who has beginner/intermediate skills in the field. I started exploring AI field at the beginning of the last year. Then I took a year off, exploring other fields trying to figure out what am I interested in. Now I can confidently say that AI/DL is a path I want to pursue in the future.
- I have some basic experience across the DL field in general (GANs, convolutional nets, word2vec, LSTMs, math/reasoning behind these topics)
- I have experience building simpler neural nets (mostly conv nets + GANs) from the scratch using NumPy
- I was frequently working with Tensorflow but I can imagine that the library changed a lot since the past year
- I feel that my probabilistic/statistics skills could be better
- I feel that I have very little experience building AI in the real world
- I feel like I need to learn how to be able to apply the latest scientific papers
What I need now is to (1) refresh my old knowledge, (2) take more challenging courses/classes with more "real world" approach and (3) start reading (and applying) scientific papers.
Do you please have any recommendations regarding me coming back to this field and getting deeper into it?
- henning 8y agoWould you enjoy something that gives a broad overview? Norvig's AI book https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Modern-Approach-3rd/dp/0136042597 https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Modern-Approa... should give you a very broad perspective of the entire field. There will be many course websites with lecture material and lectures to go along with it that you may find useful. The book website http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ has lots of resources. But it sounds like you are specifically interested in deep learning. A Google researcher wrote a book on deep learning in Python aimed at a general audience - https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Learning-Python-Francois-Chollet/dp/1617294438 https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Learning-Python-Francois-Chollet... - which might be more directly relevant to your interests. There's also what I guess you would call "the deep learning book". https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Learning-Adaptive-Computation-Machine/dp/0262035618 https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Learning-Adaptive-Computation-Ma... (People have different preferences for how they like to learn and as you can see I like learning from books.) (I apologize if you already knew about these things.)
- mlejva 8y agoThank you for the tips. The Deep Learning Book (http://deeplearningbook.org http://deeplearningbook.org) was one of my main studying materials. How would you compare the other DL book you mentioned (https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Learning-Python-Francois-Chollet/dp/1617294438 https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Learning-Python-Francois-Chollet...) against this one?