I finished this course a couple of weeks ago now, so I thought I’d share my impressions of how I found it, and also what I think I want to do next as I continue on as a Human Learning Machine Learning (see what I did there?) The Good The Teacher Professor Ng is actually
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I remember at school when they started wording problems in ways that tried to match the real world. Fill in the blank questions like: 6 – 2 – 2 = ? were replaced with: “Billy has 6 sweets and gives 2 each to Bobby and Jill. How many sweets does Billy have left?” The same,
I finished week 5 of Machine Learning last week – it was part two of the introduction to neural networks. Although it starts with a visual representation of how the neurons in the brain work, course leader Professor Andrew Ng didn’t suggest this is really how the brain actually works. I’m no a neuroscientist, but
So, we are still getting stuck into the maths this week, moving onto multivariate linear regression and some linear algebra stuff. It still just looks like stuff I did more than 20 years ago to solve tricky maths problems – done by dumb machines that happen to be able to add numbers up very quickly.
Last week I enrolled in the beginners machine learning course at Coursera taught by Andrew Ng and have just finished week one. Having not done any Coursera courses before, it was interesting to see their approach to learning on-line. I particularly appreciate the fact I can get good quality teaching for no money – unless