This ML Project Gives You an Unfair Advantage

Author(s): Boris Meinardus

Originally published on Towards AI.

This could be the single best machine learning project that will take you from beginner to pro and give you that unfair advantage!

This project got me an interview at Google DeepMind and taught me almost all the basic skills that made me feel confident in my machine-learning skills; you’ll see what I mean!So, what is this magical project?

Reimplementing a paper and recreating its results.

Is it easy? — No… No, it’s not.But if you follow the steps I broke down in this blog, it’s really not that scary. I promise!

Let’s get started!

What is step one of reimplementing a paper and recreating its results?

You guessed it! Of course, we first need to read the paper.

I have a whole separate blog post on how to read a paper, but here I want to show you my method of reading a paper with the specific purpose of reimplementing it.

What I need for this process are text markers in three different colors!Well, I personally use my iPad to read and highlight papers, but you get the point.

When reading the paper, there are three important parts I am looking out for and have a separate color for.

Color number 1 is for general understanding.We, of course, want… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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