Ask HN: Overwhelmed with learning machine learning, how do I proceed?

#1

Post by DYZT » Sun, Nov 06, 2016, 10:28 AM UTC

Inspired by this thread and the excellent answers (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12882816), I felt courageous enough to open ask myself.

I've completed Andrew Ng course on Coursera but now I feel overwhelmed by the variety of information on machine learning out there. How do I start a new project? How do I choose what problem to pick and what algorithms to apply?

Re: Ask HN: Overwhelmed with learning machine learning, how do I proceed?

#2

Post by SuperChihuahua » Sun, Nov 06, 2016, 10:34 AM UTC

Go to https://www.kaggle.com/, pick a project, and apply all algorithms to the problem to see which one is the best.

Re: Ask HN: Overwhelmed with learning machine learning, how do I proceed?

#3

Post by DYZT » Sun, Nov 06, 2016, 10:39 AM UTC

SuperChihuahua wrote: post #2

Go to https://www.kaggle.com/ , pick a project, and apply all algorithms to the problem to see which one is the best.

Wow, looks amazing. However I thought of finding my own niche / domain. This seems very structured on the one hand but would prevent me from finding my own small world to apply my new acquired knowledge on.

Re: Ask HN: Overwhelmed with learning machine learning, how do I proceed?

#4

Post by vineet » Sun, Nov 06, 2016, 4:48 PM UTC

There is a good discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12713056

Re: Ask HN: Overwhelmed with learning machine learning, how do I proceed?

#5

Post by vineet » Sun, Nov 06, 2016, 10:19 PM UTC

Here is another site that you might find helpful: https://metacademy.org/

Re: Ask HN: Overwhelmed with learning machine learning, how do I proceed?

#6

Post by lobe » Mon, Nov 07, 2016, 1:50 AM UTC

DYZT wrote: post #3

SuperChihuahua wrote: post #2

Go to https://www.kaggle.com/ , pick a project, and apply all algorithms to the problem to see which one is the best.

Wow, looks amazing. However I thought of finding my own niche / domain. This seems very structured on the one hand but would prevent me from finding my own small world to apply my new acquired knowledge on.

You don't have to stick on Kaggle forever. It is a fantastic resource for learning to apply ML techniques to real life data sets. Spend some time getting good at doing that and then move onto your own domain

Re: Ask HN: Overwhelmed with learning machine learning, how do I proceed?

#7

Post by RogerMoore121 » Mon, Nov 07, 2016, 9:56 AM UTC

Machine learning is employed in a range of computing tasks where designing and programming explicit algorithms is unfeasible; example applications include spam filtering, optical character recognition, search engines and computer vision.

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