How I Would Learn Machine Learning
Last Updated on July 26, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Sandro Luck (Data With Sandro)
Originally published on Towards AI.
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With just data, some coding skills, and google you could create an ML model that will truly shape the world, and learning about machine learning is one of the biggest investments in yourself that you can potentially make.
This article is what I would show my younger self if I could go back in time and speed you up in learning Machine Learning. We will break up this article into 3 parts, mindset, hard skills, and learning the theory behind ML.
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