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Dear machine learning newbies, please don't skip steps

I know machine learning is a hot topic. You probably are motivated by news, social media saying how smart an AI system is. Your parents might have advised you to follow this field. Your smarty pant friend writes a very smart program to analyse weather. Maybe you, come from other majors than computer science, are influenced by your own professors.

Then you decide to google "how to study machine learning" or "good university for AI major" or "how to make an assistant like Jarvis" despite the fact that you don't even know how to write a simple program. You probably don't understand the following abbreviations: CLI, OS, OOP. Magically, you copy code just like a monkey. It works, but you don't understand WHY.

Basically, this is you -> https://youtu.be/MNb9Q8vAzjw?t=49

Congratulations, you have taken shortcuts. Everyone is happy and clapping. And that's my sarcasm.

If you are a self-study machine learning newbie, please read the requirements of the course, learn the requirements, then learn the course.

For example, you take Machine Learning by Tutorialspoint.

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See that prerequisites, learn all that first.

If English is not your first language, learn English vocabulary for Computer Science. Most of the documents about Machine Learning are in English. Don't trust me? Just ask your any fellow people who have been working or learning things related to computer.

If you are following this major by going to university, focus on class, close this blog, start doing your assignments.

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Pandademic

Add the tags ai and python as well as beginner.
Change the level to beginner(1)
Every beginner programmer who thinks about AI needs this

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dinhanhx

Thanks for tags sugguestion.

Every beginner programmer who thinks about AI needs this

Not every one is a beginner programmer that thinks of AI. I have seen electrical engineer or production engineer skipping programming when learning AI stuff or any related fieds.

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Pandademic

I meant any beginner who wants to learn ai.

electrical engineer or production engineer skipping programming when learning AI

How is that even possible??

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dinhanhx

Good question. I ask myself the same.