My Honest Advice to Beginner ML Students

Author(s): Boris Meinardus

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If you’re taking one ML course after the other, you might want to read this.

So, I get a lot of questions on how to learn machine learning and become an ML engineer or data scientist.

I am proud to say that I’m an ML researcher at my dream company, Sakana.ai. I have been working towards this goal for the past six years and have learned a lot about what to do and what not to do.

At least in my opinion.

And I have also seen a lot of “advice” from other people online that I think don’t put that much thought into what they say.

So, in this blog post, I thought I’d share my honest advice on how to actually learn machine learning.

This is one of the most important advice I want to give because more and more people just ignore it.

Let’s be real. Many of you will have probably seen ChatGPT and all the other generative AI tools, such as image generation models like Midjourney or Dall-E.

And I get it—it is really super cool! But jumping directly to generative AI is only a good idea if you simply want to… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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