All of this is based on my experience of successfully teaching 300+ students how to code using Python.
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Are you planning to learn to Python for machine learning this year?
Here's everything you need to get started.
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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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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.
This is a beginner's guide on mining cryptocurrencies.
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Mining 101
Typically, when you transfer money using a service like Paypal, they take a small cut for facilitating the exchange.
In cryptocurrencies, people like you and me act as Paypal and facilitate exchanges of cryptocurrency. We get a cut for this just like Paypal did.
In order to make these transactions happen, our computers need to do some calculations which requires a lot of computational power.
A GPU or a Graphics Processing Unit which is typically marketed for gaming workloads can be used to mine cryptocurrencies.
Why do you need a GPU?
Today, there are so many miners that the "difficulty" of mining cryptocurrencies has skyrocketed, which basically means it takes a lot of computational power to mine crypto which GPUs can provide and CPUs cannot.
(❗ This is an oversimplification)
If you are interested in the inner workings of how blockchain and cryptocurrency, then I highly suggest that you read this thread by @oliverjumpertz
🧵 👇🏻
Mining 101
Typically, when you transfer money using a service like Paypal, they take a small cut for facilitating the exchange.
In cryptocurrencies, people like you and me act as Paypal and facilitate exchanges of cryptocurrency. We get a cut for this just like Paypal did.
In order to make these transactions happen, our computers need to do some calculations which requires a lot of computational power.
A GPU or a Graphics Processing Unit which is typically marketed for gaming workloads can be used to mine cryptocurrencies.
Why do you need a GPU?
Today, there are so many miners that the "difficulty" of mining cryptocurrencies has skyrocketed, which basically means it takes a lot of computational power to mine crypto which GPUs can provide and CPUs cannot.
(❗ This is an oversimplification)
If you are interested in the inner workings of how blockchain and cryptocurrency, then I highly suggest that you read this thread by @oliverjumpertz
What actually is a Blockchain?
— Oliver Jumpertz (@oliverjumpertz) February 16, 2021
Bitcoin is breaking record after record, but there must be more to the technology than just crypto, or not? Well, we can take a look at the underlying technology first to understand what it actually provides to us.
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More from Machine learning
10 machine learning YouTube videos.
On libraries, algorithms, and tools.
(If you want to start with machine learning, having a comprehensive set of hands-on tutorials you can always refer to is fundamental.)
🧵👇
1⃣ Notebooks are a fantastic way to code, experiment, and communicate your results.
Take a look at @CoreyMSchafer's fantastic 30-minute tutorial on Jupyter Notebooks.
https://t.co/HqE9yt8TkB
2⃣ The Pandas library is the gold-standard to manipulate structured data.
Check out @joejamesusa's "Pandas Tutorial. Intro to DataFrames."
https://t.co/aOLh0dcGF5
3⃣ Data visualization is key for anyone practicing machine learning.
Check out @blondiebytes's "Learn Matplotlib in 6 minutes" tutorial.
https://t.co/QxjsODI1HB
4⃣ Another trendy data visualization library is Seaborn.
@NewThinkTank put together "Seaborn Tutorial 2020," which I highly recommend.
https://t.co/eAU5NBucbm
On libraries, algorithms, and tools.
(If you want to start with machine learning, having a comprehensive set of hands-on tutorials you can always refer to is fundamental.)
🧵👇
1⃣ Notebooks are a fantastic way to code, experiment, and communicate your results.
Take a look at @CoreyMSchafer's fantastic 30-minute tutorial on Jupyter Notebooks.
https://t.co/HqE9yt8TkB
2⃣ The Pandas library is the gold-standard to manipulate structured data.
Check out @joejamesusa's "Pandas Tutorial. Intro to DataFrames."
https://t.co/aOLh0dcGF5
3⃣ Data visualization is key for anyone practicing machine learning.
Check out @blondiebytes's "Learn Matplotlib in 6 minutes" tutorial.
https://t.co/QxjsODI1HB
4⃣ Another trendy data visualization library is Seaborn.
@NewThinkTank put together "Seaborn Tutorial 2020," which I highly recommend.
https://t.co/eAU5NBucbm
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Witness protection to be kept safe until the right moment when all will be revealed?!
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Were "golden tickets" inside the envelopes??
Are these "golden tickets" going to lead to their ultimate undoing?
Review crumbs on the board re: 'gold'.
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“We don’t negotiate salaries” is a negotiation tactic.
Always. No, your company is not an exception.
A tactic I don’t appreciate at all because of how unfairly it penalizes low-leverage, junior employees, and those loyal enough not to question it, but that’s negotiation for you after all. Weaponized information asymmetry.
Listen to Aditya
And by the way, you should never be worried that an offer would be withdrawn if you politely negotiate.
I have seen this happen *extremely* rarely, mostly to women, and anyway is a giant red flag. It suggests you probably didn’t want to work there.
You wish there was no negotiating so it would all be more fair? I feel you, but it’s not happening.
Instead, negotiate hard, use your privilege, and then go and share numbers with your underrepresented and underpaid colleagues. […]
Always. No, your company is not an exception.
A tactic I don’t appreciate at all because of how unfairly it penalizes low-leverage, junior employees, and those loyal enough not to question it, but that’s negotiation for you after all. Weaponized information asymmetry.
Listen to Aditya
"we don't negotiate salaries" really means "we'd prefer to negotiate massive signing bonuses and equity grants, but we'll negotiate salary if you REALLY insist" https://t.co/80k7nWAMoK
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And by the way, you should never be worried that an offer would be withdrawn if you politely negotiate.
I have seen this happen *extremely* rarely, mostly to women, and anyway is a giant red flag. It suggests you probably didn’t want to work there.
You wish there was no negotiating so it would all be more fair? I feel you, but it’s not happening.
Instead, negotiate hard, use your privilege, and then go and share numbers with your underrepresented and underpaid colleagues. […]
THREAD: 12 Things Everyone Should Know About IQ
1. IQ is one of the most heritable psychological traits – that is, individual differences in IQ are strongly associated with individual differences in genes (at least in fairly typical modern environments). https://t.co/3XxzW9bxLE
2. The heritability of IQ *increases* from childhood to adulthood. Meanwhile, the effect of the shared environment largely fades away. In other words, when it comes to IQ, nature becomes more important as we get older, nurture less. https://t.co/UqtS1lpw3n
3. IQ scores have been increasing for the last century or so, a phenomenon known as the Flynn effect. https://t.co/sCZvCst3hw (N ≈ 4 million)
(Note that the Flynn effect shows that IQ isn't 100% genetic; it doesn't show that it's 100% environmental.)
4. IQ predicts many important real world outcomes.
For example, though far from perfect, IQ is the single-best predictor of job performance we have – much better than Emotional Intelligence, the Big Five, Grit, etc. https://t.co/rKUgKDAAVx https://t.co/DWbVI8QSU3
5. Higher IQ is associated with a lower risk of death from most causes, including cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, most forms of cancer, homicide, suicide, and accident. https://t.co/PJjGNyeQRA (N = 728,160)
1. IQ is one of the most heritable psychological traits – that is, individual differences in IQ are strongly associated with individual differences in genes (at least in fairly typical modern environments). https://t.co/3XxzW9bxLE
2. The heritability of IQ *increases* from childhood to adulthood. Meanwhile, the effect of the shared environment largely fades away. In other words, when it comes to IQ, nature becomes more important as we get older, nurture less. https://t.co/UqtS1lpw3n
3. IQ scores have been increasing for the last century or so, a phenomenon known as the Flynn effect. https://t.co/sCZvCst3hw (N ≈ 4 million)
(Note that the Flynn effect shows that IQ isn't 100% genetic; it doesn't show that it's 100% environmental.)
4. IQ predicts many important real world outcomes.
For example, though far from perfect, IQ is the single-best predictor of job performance we have – much better than Emotional Intelligence, the Big Five, Grit, etc. https://t.co/rKUgKDAAVx https://t.co/DWbVI8QSU3
5. Higher IQ is associated with a lower risk of death from most causes, including cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, most forms of cancer, homicide, suicide, and accident. https://t.co/PJjGNyeQRA (N = 728,160)
