Programmers should get involved in the field of machine learning because they are uniquely skilled to make huge contributions. In this post you will learn that as a programmer it can be easy to overlook the skills you have and overvalue those things you don’t know. You will learn about four opportunities for programmers to […]
It is important to know what is special right now to make machine learning an attractive field to study. Knowing why it is popular now can act like a guide together with knowledge of the promise that the field makes. It can highlight open questions and methods which are growth areas and why that may […]
Curiosity is a powerful motivator that you can put to work for you. A need to know more or to understand is a deep-seated human trait that we all have to varying degrees. In this post I want to share with you three aspects of machine learning that drive my curiosity to know more. Like […]
It is important to know why machine learning matters so that you know the intrinsic value of the field and of methods and open questions in the field. Like knowing your why, knowing the value of the field can be used as a powerful filter of information and help you focus on those methods that […]
There are lots of things you can do to learn about machine learning. There are resources like books and courses you can follow, competitions you can enter and tools you can use. In this post I want to put some structure around these activities and suggest a loose ordering of what to tackle when in […]
Discover Your Personal Why And Finally Get Unstuck In this post, we will explore why you are interested in machine learning. We will look at some questions that can help you get to the root of what draws you to the field. We will finish with a map showing the 4 main “whys” so that […]
In this post I want to show you that programmers can get into machine learning. I will show you that learning machine learning can be just like learning any other piece of high technology. We’ll compare learning machine learning to learning to program in the first place, which may have been an even larger challenge. […]
This was a really hard post to write because I want it to be really valuable. I sat down with a blank page and asked the really hard question of what are the very best libraries, courses, papers and books I would recommend to an absolute beginner in the field of Machine Learning. I really […]
What is Machine Learning? We can read authoritative definitions of machine learning, but really, machine learning is defined by the problem being solved. Therefore the best way to understand machine learning is to look at some example problems. In this post we will first look at some well known and understood examples of machine learning […]
You’re interested in Machine Learning and maybe you dabble in it a little. If you talk about Machine Learning with a friend or colleague one day, you run the risk of someone actually asking you: “So, what is machine learning?“ The goal of this post is to give you a few definitions to think about […]
