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toposynthesis t1_ize6hrr wrote

Imagine you are a young person with good programming knowledge but little machine learning knowledge, how would you start learning to build cool stuff with machine learning?

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MetaAI_Official OP t1_izfoxo4 wrote

For me personally, I had no practical machine learning experience prior to 2017, although I did have experience in engineering, and with statistics and working with data. I often had personal programming projects going which I worked on in the weekends and evenings. But anyways, among these projects I picked an intro project that I thought would be fun (human move prediction with deep neural nets in computer Go), started looking up tutorials, academic papers, ML libraries and APIs, and that was the start of it. Pick something you're interested in, and dive in! -DW

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MetaAI_Official OP t1_izfpw9x wrote

JG: There's never been a better time to get into machine learning, with so many amazing open source projects being released, amazing blog and youtube tutorials, and communities of people trying to learn together. Whether you're interested in audio, image generation, game AI, or anything else, I'd recommend you clone a popular open source repo, play around with it for a while, and then see if you can make a small modification!

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