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Journey to Machine Learning (Day 005)

Ali Akber — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 16:38:03 +0000

Helloo Devs! It's another day and once again I'm here. I'm thinking I'll not be adding references to previous posts anymore as it's quite troublesome :p If someone is interested to read previous posts kindly check my profile.

Today I finished pandas section, after that there was control section ( if - else - loops ), It took me like 15 mins to complete all the exercises (Duh! I'm an android developer remember? :p ) Idk why they added this in the advanced python course though! I'm gonna be done with this course by tomorrow. There's a project at the end of the course. I'm excited about it _

I was able to debug the problem Merge K sorted list. The problem was that I forgot to define a way to compare elements in the heap. I'm thinking of writing more details about these problems, probably in another thread.

As for Django, I watched more tutorials than I should've last night. Mainly because it's very easy to understand and fun to do. I learned about urls, views and templates. Created a static page with template extension.

I'm looking a bit into statistics as it is required for one of the exercises of ML. I'm thinking of watching this Gaussian Distribution tutorial. Maybe I'll watch it after posting this :p

That's it for today folks! Hope to write another one tomorrow! Thanks for reading <3

Journey to Machine Learning (Day 004)

Ali Akber — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 16:21:56 +0000

Hello Devs! It's day 4 and once again I'm here to rant! If you wanna read the previous post see here :
day 001
day 002
day 003

Today I finished the matplotlib section and also read a bit of pandas. I created this beautiful graph in an exercise. It's probably nothing but I'm proud of it :D

I found some great resources today on machine learning. This Book looks great and it has interractive exercise too. It's completely free so, if you wanna try it go ahead.

As for leetcode problems I solved Guess the number. I also tried to solve Merge K sorted Arrays but got stuck and wasn't able to debug it yet.

I haven't watched Django today till now, but I still have some time left before I call it a day. So I might watch it.

Yesterday I said that I was gonna drop the math course but I had some time left before going to bed, so I saw a few videos. I might/might not drop it, but this is surely on the last of my priorities for now.

That's pretty much it for today. Hope to write tomorrow again. Thanks for reading! <3

Journey to Machine Learning (Day 003)

Ali Akber — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 14:19:34 +0000

Hi devs! It's another day and once again I'm here to rant :v This is the 3rd post of the series, you can find the previous posts here :
day 001
day 002

Okay, so today I finally finished the beginner python course from DataCamp, it took me around 3 days. Here's the completion statement (Yaay!)

I also started the next course which is, Intermedite python. Learned a bit about matplotlib. It was cool.

For leetcode problems, today I solved K'th Largest element in an array
It'a heap based problem.

Yesterday i said I started a math course. I'm thinking of dropping it, as I don't feel I need right now, maybe I'll start it again after going a bit into machine learning.

I was also seeing a bit of Django, as i'm thinking of making a blog site of my own. Today I learned what virtual environments are and how to setup one from here

That's pretty much it for today. Hope to write tomorrow too. Thanks for reading <3

Journey to Machine Learning (Day 002)

Ali Akber — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 17:06:54 +0000

Hey guys! So this is my day 2 of journey to machine learning. You can find day 001 here

Today I learned a bit more about numPy. I learned to slice 1D and 2D vetors and played around with them a little.

I solved Single Number and Find All missing numbers from leetcode with python.

I was browsing youtube and found a Machine learning course from Stanford. I thought I'd give it a try but I realized it requires some mathematics which I have done before but now completely forgotten them. So I started another course which is kind of a refreshment course of linear algebra. I plan to complete it alongside the Datacamp course.

Tbh the Datacamp course seems to be very easy and I could finish it in one day, but I don't wanna forget everything the next day so, I'm taking things a bit slowly. Hopefully It'll be done by 10th June.

So yeah that's pretty much it for today. Thanks for reading. Hope to write another one tomorrow! <3

Journey to Machine Learning (Day 001)

Ali Akber — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 14:23:57 +0000

So this is my first post as I just started my journey to machine learning. Its more like a journal, I'll try to write one post everyday. So, lets get started.

A little bit about my programming background
I'm a computer science student, final year. I have been learning programming for about 4 years. I do a bit of problem solving. I have been learning android since 2018 and I published two apps in google playstore. I'm currently working as a flutter developer in a small company with very little pay :p

Why machine learning?
I've always been interested in AI since childhood, though I didn't quite understand what it was. I wanted to learn it in the first year of college, but there aren't many jobs with machine learning in my country. So, I had to learn a development platform first (Android) to get a job as soon as I graduate. It's not that I don't like Android, I love it. But I also wanna do something amazing rather than making commercial applications. Mixing machine learning and my development skills I might be able to achieve that!

My progress till now
Though this is the first post, it's been 6 days since I started learning python. So far so good. I have been solving leetcode problems with python (which is also to prepare for a good job).

I subscribed to Data Camp's student package, which is 3 months of premium subscription free for students, and started a python course. I've moved onto NumPy today on Data Camp. I plan to finish this course by 10th June and take part in an assessment to check my skills.

After that I'm gonna shift to machine learning specific track. I have 3 months of subscription only and gotta take what I can in this three months :p

I guess that's it for today. I'll try to write one post everyday. Follow me to get updates of a struggling developer :p

Thanks for reading this! <3