How to learn machine learning for free?
I know how it feels you are sitting at the bank of the river and thinking whether to jump or not. It gets terrible when you don’t know how to swim. i was in a similar situation. It was couple of years ago when I was talking to my friends in IIT, some working in MSR(Microsoft Research) Bengaluru etc and I realized that I need to understand the field of deep learning then only I will have something to say in their conversation. Yes, getting into deep learning was not a career choice for me, it was peer-pressure. My friends like Asim Unmesh and Jeetu Raj were really helpful when I decided to pick up deep learning.
Now I won’t bore you with my story, let’s get to the exciting part, how I taught myself deep learning and machine learning? Excited?!
Disclaimer — The following list is about the resources which worked for me, I ain’t saying this is the only way to learn ML.
I will list down the resources for which I am thankful for. I really am glad that the creators left these resources for free online for folks like me.
- Introduction to Machine Learning (Andrew Ng, CS 229 Stanford) — I am thankful that I referred to this series because Prof Ng really takes us deep into Machine Learning intuitively and step by step. Make sure that you also read lecture notes.
- Introduction to Deep Learning (Andrej Karpathy, CS 231n Stanford) — Being super interested in Computer Vision, I wanted to learn more about this field. I wanted to know how deep learning is used in CV. Don’t forget to check out lecture notes.
- The Deep Learning Book — I picked up this book after I had finished more than half of CS229 lectures. This book also has some introduction to essential mathematics which are necessary for deep learning particularly.
- Introduction to Natural Language Processing (Christopher Manning, CS 224n Stanford) — For the folks interested in NLP, I’d recommend this lecture series. Although I still need to finish this series but I am finding it fun to learn from.
Great! Congratulations! if you have completed the course and made this far… I’d now try to provide some other reading resources which I refer.
- Sebastian Ruder’s newsletter — Please subscribe this awesome newsletter for latest updates from NLP domain.
- I keep a constant watch at ICML, CVPR, NeurIPS website to check at submitted and selected papers. This helps me to keep myself updated with the state of the art.
- Please subscribe to OpenAI, Google Brain and DeepMind’s blog, newsletter and twitter accounts.
Some more content –
Want to get started with Reinforcement Learning? The following videos can be a good starting point –
- Introduction to Reinforcement Learning by Richard Sutton
- Also there is a great book available for free!
There is way more content which I have, please feel free to comment if you want anything specific.
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Happy Coding! 🙂
Originally published at vipulvaibhaw.com on April 5, 2019.