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Ask HN: How can an individual get into machine learning?
HN, I'm a web developer who's good at front-end programming and okayish at back-end programming.
Reading articles on large companies making breakthroughs in machine learning and neural networking makes a part of me quite excited.
So I wanted to ask if it's useful for an individual to get into this sort of stuff? Is this a viable career path right now? What beginner books or sites can you recommend?
- avinassh 12y agoDo this Coursera course, targeted towards beginners and its taught by Andrew Ng (Co-founder of Coursera) - https://www.coursera.org/course/ml https://www.coursera.org/course/ml
- brudgers 12y agoThe videos are available here: https://class.coursera.org/ml-005/lecture https://class.coursera.org/ml-005/lecture I think it is worth mentioning that "beginners" should be understood as beginners in machine learning and not beginners in computer science. Ng's course more or less assumes students have the equivalent of an upper division undergraduate or graduate background in computer science. While it may be a valuable learning experience for a person who isn't comfortable knocking out algorithms, academic success will be rather difficult to achieve.
- jacquesm 12y agoThis probably could almost be a FAQ. Have a look here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7783550 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7783550 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2645671 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2645671