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As a web developer, I'm often ashamed to admit that I knew very little about AI. Especially because I worked on a AI product on my day to day. I was perfectly f
by firefoxd 5y ago
As a web developer, I'm often ashamed to admit that I knew very little about AI. Especially because I worked on a AI product on my day to day. I was perfectly fine debugging our python code and updating spacy, but had no clue what it was doing internally.
So 6 months ago, I quit my job, published a short book, then studied AI. It's funny how so many material makes the vast assumption that you already know so much. They gloss over activation functions, loss functions, vanishing gradients, or the most fundamental things like properly loading your data. No one even tells you how to load the data!
Anyway, I got my Deep Learning Specialization certificate, I watched all 3blue1brown videos, I built a smart assistant that runs on raspberry pi in my car. The goal is to have it Assist the driver, with blind spots and keeping the eyes on the road.
- UnpossibleJim 5y agoFunny you should mention this, as I'm on my way there. I'm just at the Data Analytics with Python portion of my studies, but with time I want to learn the Machine Learning and AI (baby steps, I suppose). I like to know the behind the scenes sections and the inner workings, so I tend to get side tracked on occasion and deep dive into parts that interest me... Probably not good for forward momentum, but better for my interest, I suppose =/
- obiwanpallav1 5y agoI took the Coursera's Machine Learning course in 2017 just because I had some time then. But I didn't work on any related project, back to square one now. A few weeks back I started to revise the course but it's appears to be boring because I know that I've done it already and I feel that I'll forget it once again. Can you please share how you started and the projects you worked on?
- firefoxd 5y agoI'm writing an article about it, hopefully I'll post it by next month. What got me started was that when I left my job, I had a hard time explaining how the AI part of the product works. We automated customer service for large e-commerces. I wrote a simple yet buggy neural network in JavaScript and it got me excited. I immediately jumped to building a smart device where I can say "Hey Jaziel" (merged name of my kids) and it can perform a command. My JavaScript model failed. So I turned to coursera, took the deep learning specialization course by Andrew Ng. In a month, I had a working prototype. Sorry I haven't published it yet, but it will also be posted here. Hopefully it makes it to the front page.
- mrfusion 5y ago> I got my Deep Learning Specialization certificate What is this? Will it help you get a job?
- firefoxd 5y agoExtremely late reply! Some specialization courses offer a certificate on Coursera. I don't know that it is recognized by institutions, but I believe completing an Andrew Ng class, with the addition of building a project with this new knowledge can be helpful. By the way I'm in the process of interviewing with FAANG, so let's see how much it will matter :)