Complete Small Focused Projects and Demonstrate Your Skills A portfolio is typically used by designers and artists to show examples of prior work to prospective clients and employers. Design, art and photography are examples where the work product is creative and empirical, where telling someone you can do it is not valued the same as […]
Identify and Tackle Your Self-Limiting Beliefs and Finally Make Progress I get a lot of email from developers and students looking to get started in machine learning. The first question I ask them is what is stopping them from getting started? I try to get to the heart of what they are struggling with, and almost […]
In this post I lay out a concrete self-study roadmap for applied machine learning that you can use to orient yourself and figure out your next step. I think a lot about frameworks and systematic approaches (as evidenced on my blog). I would consider this post a vast expansion of my previous thoughts on a self-study […]
Reading bootstrapping machine learning, Louis mentioned a paper that I had to go off and read. The title of the paper is Machine Learning that Matters (PDF) by Kiri Wagstaff from JPL and was published in 2012. Kiri’s thesis is that the machine learning research community has lost its way. She suggests that much of machine […]
A question I get asked a lot is: What is the best programming language for machine learning? I’ve replied to this question many times now it’s about time to explore this further in a blog post. Ultimately, the programming language you use for machine learning should consider your own requirements and predilections. No one can meaningfully address […]
This is a project spotlight with Shashank Singh a programmer and machine learning enthusiast. Could you please introduce yourself? I did Bachelors of Technology in Computer Science. I co-founded a startup at 23, spectacularly crashed it by 26th birthday. After that I was feeling particularly low and pretty dry of inspiration for quite some time. I […]
This is a project spotlight with Konstantin Slisenko a programmer and machine learning enthusiast. Could you please introduce yourself? My name is Konstantin Slisenko, I’m from Belarus. I graduated from the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics. I am currently taking a master course. I’m a Java developer and work in JazzTeam company. I like […]
A Top-Down Strategy for Beginners to Start and Practice Machine Learning. Getting started is much easier than you think. In this post I show you the top-down approach for getting started in applied machine learning. You will discover the four steps to this approach. They should feel familiar because it’s probably the same top-down approach […]
There is no right way to get into machine learning. We all learn slightly different ways and have different objectives of what we want to do with or for machine learning. A common goal is to get productive with machine learning quickly. If that is your goal then this post highlights five common mistakes programmers […]
When making a start in a new field it is common to feel overwhelmed. You may lack confidence or feel as though you are not good enough or that you are lacking some prerequisite. You will explore these issues in this post and learn that such feelings can lead to actions that can consume a […]
