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trybackprop

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About trybackprop

Building www.trybackprop.com, an online resource for folks who aspire to break into an ML career or who want to learn ML more deeply.

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    A blog for learning all things ML – concepts, interview tips, online ML courses: https://www.trybackprop.com

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    I made a list of all the free resources I used to study ML and deep learning to become an ML engineer at FAANG, so I think it'll be helpful to follow these resources: https://www.t…

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    I wrote a post about how to build image search using OpenAI's CLIP, and I included a Google Colab notebook that walks you through step by step the coding process. My article also g…

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    Thanks for the feedback!

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    From my experience with 5 years in “software engineering” and then 7 years in “machine learning”, what matters is the most is that you like what you do so that you can bring your A…

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    Show HN: I created two interactive web experiences to learn ML

    Two React powered interactive playgrounds to learn linear algebra and its application to embeddings

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    I just posted part 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40846513 . It covers the dot product and embeddings and features more visuals and two interactive playgrounds to reinforc…

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    Thanks! I built the interactive playgrounds with React in TypeScript, a lot of SVG manipulation. All of this was built with either Python for visuals or React in general.

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    Learn the linear algebra you need to know for AI/ML. This covers the dot product both algorithmically and visually and applies it to machine learning embeddings. This article also …

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    I actually wrote a blog post about this for experienced software engineers like you who are thinking of transitioning to ML, so I wanted to share it here: https://www.trybackprop.c…

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    Thank you for the kind words! Please feel free to leave any feedback if you have any. Thanks!

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    thank you for the feedback! Ah, I can see how switching from column form to row form right away is confusing, especially if someone isn't familiar with all the notation and the cod…

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    I'm working on this series of articles for folks like you! So glad to hear that you found it useful. Stay tuned for part 2!

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    I love 3Blue1Brown's Essence of Linear Algebra series! Yeah, I wrote this article knowing it'd be review for a lot of folks, but I wanted to at least get readers on the same page b…

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    Thank you for the kind words! I currently working on Part 2 of the series (dot products, matrix multiplication, similarity search) and hope to have it out soon. Hope you continue r…

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    Thanks! Part 2 (in the works) will cover visual explanations of the dot product and matrix multiplication, and I'll discuss how to build a visual similarity search engine. Stay tun…