I am a Computer Systems Engineer who is good at front end development. I want to learn machine learning next. How can a front end developer utilize machine learning?
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Re: Ask HN: How can a front-end developer dive into machine learning?
#2Check out this excellent walk through by Per Harald Borgen: https://scrimba.com/casts/cast-1980
Re: Ask HN: How can a front-end developer dive into machine learning?
#3Dan Shiffman created a Youtube playlist titled "Intelligence and Learning", which might be a good place to start.
This is the link to his channel https://www.youtube.com/user/shiffman
Re: Ask HN: How can a front-end developer dive into machine learning?
#4http://www.fast.ai/ is a mooc, Coursera is a mooc that has courses on the topic also there is udemy, the knowledge you retrieve depends on the effort you put in, just like front end development
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#5How can you utilize it? It's not "front end" per se, but you can use it to build recommendation systems and predictive models for users. Basically, anytime you need or want to make a decision involving some amount of uncertainty.
Re: Ask HN: How can a front-end developer dive into machine learning?
#6it depends if you want to be a data engineer (lots of need for that), software engineer that developers code for data scientists (Software Engineer: Machine Learner - also lots of demand), or a data scientist.
the latter, 'might' be a challenge. I started looking into linkedin profiles of data scientists of top tech companies after I realized there were more wharton mba's as data scientists than there where people who mastered in CIS in my program.
So far, 50% had a masters/phd in statistics, 25% Information / Data Science, 25% business background. However, I am still looking into it as my sample is small and I have selection bias in my sampling.
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#7It don't answer you but it is related in some way. I saw some days ago a js library to implement neural networks. I didn't dive in it but it looks like something to do simple things on browsers https://synaptic.juancazala.com/#/
Re: Ask HN: How can a front-end developer dive into machine learning?
#8I'd recommend looking into Azure's offering if you want an environment that's already setup, free to play with, and has some tutorials and templates https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/machine-learning/
If you want to get more hands on, I'd look into Tensorflow. You can search github for popular projects using it to get some ideas. I haven't played with it in awhile.
Re: Ask HN: How can a front-end developer dive into machine learning?
#9it depends if you want to be a data engineer (lots of need for that), software engineer that developers code for data scientists (Software Engineer: Machine Learner - also lots of demand), or a data scientist. the latter, 'might' be a challenge. I started looking into linkedin profiles of data scientists of top tech companies after I realized there were more wharton mba's as data scientists than there where people wh…
What are the primary skills of the 'Wharton data scientists' you are talking about? Is it excel, SQL, R, Python?
Re: Ask HN: How can a front-end developer dive into machine learning?
#10Dan Shiffman created a Youtube playlist titled "Intelligence and Learning", which might be a good place to start. This is the link to his channel https://www.youtube.com/user/shiffman
Wow thank you for this!!!