A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning [pdf]

by alrex021on 5/18/2015, 9:43 AMwith 18 comments

by hangtwentyon 5/18/2015, 5:57 PM

When I first read this paper, I found it to be immensely helpful. I'm new to Machine Learning but I was so inspired by this paper when I first found it that I wanted to build up resources around it.

Here's the result: https://github.com/hangtwenty/dive-into-machine-learning

I want this guide to be a good resource for other people like me, who are curious to get into Machine Learning by this process:

1) hacking 2) coming to understand what you hacked 3) more structured, in-depth learning

It can be intimidating to approach Machine Learning this way. For a long time it felt like I couldn't do steps 1 or 2... and had to start with 3. That's intimidating!

Pull requests welcome, I want this to be a good resource! Thanks all.

by paperworkon 5/18/2015, 11:35 PM

Pedro Domingos also has a fantastic mooc at https://www.coursera.org/course/machlearning

by bladecatcheron 5/19/2015, 8:57 AM

This is a very useful guide. Although I'd imagine that you'd have to have atleast some experience with ML before you truly appreciate what's being explained in the paper.

by moridinon 5/18/2015, 7:17 PM

This is great, wish this was around about 6 months ago. I'm going to go over this and fill in some knowledge gaps.

by alfiedotwtfon 5/18/2015, 9:51 PM

Is anyone else getting an untrusted cert?

by sushirainon 5/18/2015, 9:41 PM

"So there is ultimately no replacement for the smarts you put into feature-engineering."

Recently, deep learning changed this. Finding the right network architecture allows the net to learn the features by itself.

by nileshtrivedion 5/18/2015, 6:43 PM

Just finished reading this. Brilliant!