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

15 points by DYZT 9 years ago | 5 comments

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?

SuperChihuahua 9 years ago |

Go to https://www.kaggle.com/, pick a project, and apply all algorithms to the problem to see which one is the best.

DYZT 9 years ago | |

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 9 years ago | | |

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

vineet 9 years ago |

Here is another site that you might find helpful: https://metacademy.org/

vineet 9 years ago |

There is a good discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12713056