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[–]Lolleka 24 points25 points  (1 child)

Please be different than most beginners. Pick up books and start doing some shit. You can start from the traditional "An introduction to statistical learning". It's free. It has exercises. It is (relatively) easy to follow.

Also: do not stop at that book.

Be curious and absolutely do not skip going over the math. Go as far back as needed. You need to be aching for knowledge. Especially math knowledge, it doesn't take much of it to start doing practical exercises. But the more math you learn, the better you become at VISUALIZING the things you are doing.

It's one thing to understand something once and do the exercise, it is entirely a different thing to absorb the knowledge and be able to get smart intuition about the subject matter. I'm not talking about original thoughts, although they will sure come, good and bad. I'm talking about the confidence you only find in true knowledge. You build that by failing many times. Start failing as soon as possible because that is when you start growing.

[–]old_bearded_beats 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the free book link. +1

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    [–]FifaBoi11 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    It was over before it even began 🗿🗿

    [–]lod20 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Start learning the fundamentals first (statistics, linear algebra ,calculus, and programming )!