All of this is based on my experience of successfully teaching 300+ students how to code using Python.
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How to learn Python for machine learning. 🐍
The beginner's guide.
(based on my real life experience of mentoring 300+ students)
🧵👇
All of this is based on my experience of successfully teaching 300+ students how to code using Python.
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Because of 2 reasons:
- Comparatively easier to learn than other languages
- Has the biggest and most mature community
This makes Python a no-brainer to learn for machine learning as a beginner.
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- Basic terminal commands
- Basic arithmetic (+,-,/,*)
- Accepting user input
- For & While loops
- Exception handling
- If-Else statements
- Functions, modules & Imports
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- Object oriented programming in Python:Classes, Objects, Methods
- PIP (Pypi)
- List slicing
- String formatting
- Dictionaries & Tuples
- Managing environments
- Dunder methods like __init__
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- Lambda functions
- Built in libraries like CSV, requests, Sqlite
- Map and Filter
- *args and **kwargs
- Async
- Decorators
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Let's tackle this issue.
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- Anaconda for managing environments (different versions of Python)
- Python3
- Machine learning packages like Sckit learn and TensorFlow using pip when needed
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MacOS: 🔗docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/install/mac-os/
Windows: 🔗docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/install/windows/
Linux: 🔗docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/install/linux/
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Here'a a guide with step by step instructions which will help you.
🔗bit.ly/3rbDoyl
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Here are some popular ones
- VS code: Feature rich
- Sublime: Light and simple
- Jupyter: Useful for prototyping
- Pycharm: Full blown IDE i.e has loads of features.
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These are online editors which have everything setup for you.
Not to mention colab and kaggle notebooks give you a free GPU for your machine learning workloads.
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Collab : 🔗colab.research.google.com
Kaggle Notebooks : 🔗kaggle.com/notebooks/welcome
Repl : 🔗repl. it
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Basics: 🔗youtube.com/watch?v=rfscVS0vtbw
Intermediate: 🔗youtube.com/watch?v=HGOBQPFzWKo
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Here's a brilliant website which gives you an overview of the windows command prompt, enough for you to get started.
🔗bit.ly/34tmnGd
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🔗youtube.com/watch?v=oxuRxtrO2Ag
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More from Pratham Prasoon
Do you want to learn the maths for machine learning but don't know where to start?
This thread is for you.
🧵👇
The guide that you will see below is based on resources that I came across, and some of my experiences over the past 2 years or so.
I use these resources and they will (hopefully) help you in understanding the theoretical aspects of machine learning very well.
Before diving into maths, I suggest first having solid programming skills in Python.
Read this thread for more
These are topics of math you'll have to focus on for machine learning👇
- Trigonometry & Algebra
These are the main pre-requisites for other topics on this list.
(There are other pre-requites but these are the most common)
- Linear Algebra
To manipulate and represent data.
- Calculus
To train and optimize your machine learning model, this is very important.
This thread is for you.
🧵👇
The guide that you will see below is based on resources that I came across, and some of my experiences over the past 2 years or so.
I use these resources and they will (hopefully) help you in understanding the theoretical aspects of machine learning very well.
Before diving into maths, I suggest first having solid programming skills in Python.
Read this thread for more
Are you planning to learn Python for machine learning this year?
— Pratham Prasoon (@PrasoonPratham) February 13, 2021
Here's everything you need to get started.
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These are topics of math you'll have to focus on for machine learning👇
- Trigonometry & Algebra
These are the main pre-requisites for other topics on this list.
(There are other pre-requites but these are the most common)
- Linear Algebra
To manipulate and represent data.
- Calculus
To train and optimize your machine learning model, this is very important.
More from Machine learning
This is a Twitter series on #FoundationsOfML.
❓ Today, I want to start discussing the different types of Machine Learning flavors we can find.
This is a very high-level overview. In later threads, we'll dive deeper into each paradigm... 👇🧵
Last time we talked about how Machine Learning works.
Basically, it's about having some source of experience E for solving a given task T, that allows us to find a program P which is (hopefully) optimal w.r.t. some metric
According to the nature of that experience, we can define different formulations, or flavors, of the learning process.
A useful distinction is whether we have an explicit goal or desired output, which gives rise to the definitions of 1️⃣ Supervised and 2️⃣ Unsupervised Learning 👇
1️⃣ Supervised Learning
In this formulation, the experience E is a collection of input/output pairs, and the task T is defined as a function that produces the right output for any given input.
👉 The underlying assumption is that there is some correlation (or, in general, a computable relation) between the structure of an input and its corresponding output and that it is possible to infer that function or mapping from a sufficiently large number of examples.
❓ Today, I want to start discussing the different types of Machine Learning flavors we can find.
This is a very high-level overview. In later threads, we'll dive deeper into each paradigm... 👇🧵
Last time we talked about how Machine Learning works.
Basically, it's about having some source of experience E for solving a given task T, that allows us to find a program P which is (hopefully) optimal w.r.t. some metric
I'm starting a Twitter series on #FoundationsOfML. Today, I want to answer this simple question.
— Alejandro Piad Morffis (@AlejandroPiad) January 12, 2021
\u2753 What is Machine Learning?
This is my preferred way of explaining it... \U0001f447\U0001f9f5
According to the nature of that experience, we can define different formulations, or flavors, of the learning process.
A useful distinction is whether we have an explicit goal or desired output, which gives rise to the definitions of 1️⃣ Supervised and 2️⃣ Unsupervised Learning 👇
1️⃣ Supervised Learning
In this formulation, the experience E is a collection of input/output pairs, and the task T is defined as a function that produces the right output for any given input.
👉 The underlying assumption is that there is some correlation (or, in general, a computable relation) between the structure of an input and its corresponding output and that it is possible to infer that function or mapping from a sufficiently large number of examples.
With hard work and determination, anyone can learn to code.
Here’s a list of my favorites resources if you’re learning to code in 2021.
👇
1. freeCodeCamp.
I’d suggest picking one of the projects in the curriculum to tackle and then completing the lessons on syntax when you get stuck. This way you know *why* you’re learning what you’re learning, and you're building things
2. https://t.co/7XC50GlIaa is a hidden gem. Things I love about it:
1) You can see the most upvoted solutions so you can read really good code
2) You can ask questions in the discussion section if you're stuck, and people often answer. Free
3. https://t.co/V9gcXqqLN6 and https://t.co/KbEYGL21iE
On stackoverflow you can find answers to almost every problem you encounter. On GitHub you can read so much great code. You can build so much just from using these two resources and a blank text editor.
4. https://t.co/xX2J00fSrT @eggheadio specifically for frontend dev.
Their tutorials are designed to maximize your time, so you never feel overwhelmed by a 14-hour course. Also, the amount of prep they put into making great courses is unlike any other online course I've seen.
Here’s a list of my favorites resources if you’re learning to code in 2021.
👇
1. freeCodeCamp.
I’d suggest picking one of the projects in the curriculum to tackle and then completing the lessons on syntax when you get stuck. This way you know *why* you’re learning what you’re learning, and you're building things
2. https://t.co/7XC50GlIaa is a hidden gem. Things I love about it:
1) You can see the most upvoted solutions so you can read really good code
2) You can ask questions in the discussion section if you're stuck, and people often answer. Free
3. https://t.co/V9gcXqqLN6 and https://t.co/KbEYGL21iE
On stackoverflow you can find answers to almost every problem you encounter. On GitHub you can read so much great code. You can build so much just from using these two resources and a blank text editor.
4. https://t.co/xX2J00fSrT @eggheadio specifically for frontend dev.
Their tutorials are designed to maximize your time, so you never feel overwhelmed by a 14-hour course. Also, the amount of prep they put into making great courses is unlike any other online course I've seen.
