Yeah i don't get it. I see a lot of ML courses online and i don't know if they are linear regression courses with a few buzzwords or if people are really going headfirst into machine learning that easily. I have a good (enough) Algorithms and DS foundation, i tried to read a few papers on ML and that shit scares me :).
There was a guy I vaguely knew from a party 2 years ago. He was really interested in ML/AI but never coded and I study computer science so we exchanged numbers but never really had contact again. 3 weeks ago he asked if I can explain Matlab to him. I said sure and asked why. He wanted to use it for reading plots of stock prices from his screen to predict what the stock exchange would do. So an image of a plot and not data stored in something like an array.
It was difficult to kindly explain why this idea wouldn't work and why I didn't want to work on it (he didn't say it but I'm sure he wanted my help). He also has no background in maths and no clue how ML works.
Gasparez on July 4th, 2020 at 11:02 UTC »
Yeah i don't get it. I see a lot of ML courses online and i don't know if they are linear regression courses with a few buzzwords or if people are really going headfirst into machine learning that easily. I have a good (enough) Algorithms and DS foundation, i tried to read a few papers on ML and that shit scares me :).
zonderAdriaan on July 4th, 2020 at 11:10 UTC »
There was a guy I vaguely knew from a party 2 years ago. He was really interested in ML/AI but never coded and I study computer science so we exchanged numbers but never really had contact again. 3 weeks ago he asked if I can explain Matlab to him. I said sure and asked why. He wanted to use it for reading plots of stock prices from his screen to predict what the stock exchange would do. So an image of a plot and not data stored in something like an array.
It was difficult to kindly explain why this idea wouldn't work and why I didn't want to work on it (he didn't say it but I'm sure he wanted my help). He also has no background in maths and no clue how ML works.
BenjieWheeler on July 4th, 2020 at 11:57 UTC »
Haha Tensorflow go brrrrrr