Don't waste time like I did in my ML career
Before you start another course read thisSTOP. You probably have 15 different ML textbooks on your laptop and 20 bookmarked courses. Before you start one of them again, you should think about what you really need. In fact, even before that just think about what you really want from your
Before you start another course read this STOP. You probably have 15 different ML textbooks on your laptop and 20 bookmarked courses. Before you start one of them again, you should think about what you really need. In fact, even before that just think about what you really want from your career. If you want to be a theoretical NLP researcher then it might make sense to finish that linguistics textbook but if you just want to be "smart enough" to work in ML then for the love of God PLEASE do not start another theoretical course. Theory vs application ML is not all theory. It's easy to…
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