Ask HN: How to get started with Machine Learning?

7 points by imheretolearn 2y ago ↗ HN

I'm currently a Software Engineer looking to transition to Machine Learning. I know a lot of people recommend Andrew NGs course as a first step towards Machine Learning. There are so many resources out there and so much information it's difficult to understand where to begin and how to proceed. I wanted to hear from someone in the field what's the best track to becoming a Machine Learning Engineer?

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Bostonian 2y ago ↗

"Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems, 2nd ed." by Aurélien Géron (2022), published by O'Reilly, is one of my favorite technical books ever. It was published before LLMs became hot.

Greamy 2y ago ↗

I believe the math background is quite important in ML, and having a good understanding of it from the beginning helps tremendously. You can check my answer from before here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36477464

tikkun 2y ago ↗

See my comment here plus the other comments in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36433289

xchip 2y ago ↗

I would start using Google because it's not the first time someone asks this question