Ask HN: Daily practices for building AI/ML skills?

#1

Post by atomicnature » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 6:14 AM UTC

Say I have around 1 hour daily allocated to developing AI/ML skills.

What in your opinion is the best way to invest the time/energy?

1. Build small projects (build what?)

2. Read blogs/newsletters (which ones?)

3. Take courses (which courses?)

4. Read textbooks (which books?)

6. Kaggle competitions

7. Participate in AI/ML forums/communities

8. A combination of the above (if possible share time % allocation/weightage)

Asking this in general to help good SE people build up capabilities in ML.

Re: Ask HN: Daily practices for building AI/ML skills?

#2

Post by haltist » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 6:17 AM UTC

[flagged]

Re: Ask HN: Daily practices for building AI/ML skills?

#3

Post by atomicnature » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 6:23 AM UTC

haltist wrote: post #2

[flagged]

An AI teaching how a human can learn to build AI, interesting :)

Re: Ask HN: Daily practices for building AI/ML skills?

#4

Post by theGeatZhopa » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 6:44 AM UTC

atomicnature wrote: post #3

haltist wrote: post #2

[flagged]

An AI teaching how a human can learn to build AI, interesting :)

Recursion is the next Level of evolution and occure everywhere :)

We need an algorithm.

Re: Ask HN: Daily practices for building AI/ML skills?

#5

Post by majikaja » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 7:08 AM UTC

haltist wrote: post #2

[flagged]

What is the economic moat for a skill that any software engineer can learn with an hour a day investment?

Re: Ask HN: Daily practices for building AI/ML skills?

#6

Post by rjzzleep » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 7:12 AM UTC

atomicnature wrote: post #3

haltist wrote: post #2

[flagged]

An AI teaching how a human can learn to build AI, interesting :)

I've learned that for now GPT spits out a lot of junk and downright doesn't know much about very technical problems(i.e. semiconductor patterning)

However, for people like me that learn programming by bruteforce, it's fantastic to get a bunch of rust code and then having to figure out how to turn it into functioning code. It's not that it's teaching by itself, but it helps getting a lot of pointers that would have taken a lot of time to wait for mailing list and github issue responses.

Re: Ask HN: Daily practices for building AI/ML skills?

#7

Post by akumetsu » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 7:16 AM UTC

haltist wrote: post #2

[flagged]

Nice how 1 hour turned into 70 minutes.

From personal experience: Learning and understanding the fundamentals via courses and personal projects/implementation is different from keeping up to date with blogs, newsletters etc. I suggest dedicating the full hour to 1 thing, but alternating between courses (i.e coursera), reading (i.e the batch) and building/coding.

Re: Ask HN: Daily practices for building AI/ML skills?

#8

Post by quickthrower2 » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 7:17 AM UTC

Maybe start with FastAI course? Then from there go deeper into what interests you?

Re: Ask HN: Daily practices for building AI/ML skills?

#9

Post by teaearlgraycold » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 7:19 AM UTC

majikaja wrote: post #5

haltist wrote: post #2

[flagged]

What is the economic moat for a skill that any software engineer can learn with an hour a day investment?

Most people are lazy. But also an hour a day is only so much for learning a skill.

Re: Ask HN: Daily practices for building AI/ML skills?

#10

Post by teaearlgraycold » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 7:19 AM UTC

rjzzleep wrote: post #6

atomicnature wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An AI teaching how a human can learn to build AI, interesting :)

I've learned that for now GPT spits out a lot of junk and downright doesn't know much about very technical problems(i.e. semiconductor patterning) However, for people like me that learn programming by bruteforce, it's fantastic to get a bunch of rust code and then having to figure out how to turn it into functioning code. It's not that it's teaching by itself, but it helps getting a lot of pointers that would have ta…

It’s been great for k8s