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

15 points by DYZT ↗ HN
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?

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SuperChihuahua
Go to https://www.kaggle.com/, pick a project, and apply all algorithms to the problem to see which one is the best.
DYZT
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.
lobe
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
[dead] RogerMoore121
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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