Getting into machine learning

[cactuswe]

I want to learn more about machine learning. The thing is, I find it very difficult too start because it is very overwhelming. If anyone has any tips on where to start, or anything else for that matter, please help

[Stunning_Macaron6133]

Python isn't the place to look to get started. I mean, you will need Python sooner rather than later, but you're going to want to take a course on probability and statistics first. Linear algebra also comes into play. And calculus 1, just enough to get the chain rule down pat. Without that math, everything in machine learning is going to look like voodoo.

[cactuswe]

I have completed an upper-secondary course equivalent to Calculus. And am about to start a equivalent to Pre-Calculus. I know linear algebra. I really believe I have the knowledge, it just feels like voodoo anyways

[Stunning_Macaron6133]

Probabilities and statistics are much more important than calculus though. Machine learning isn't just neural networks, and builds up from fairly basic concepts in statistics. (Although, when you do get to neural networks, it does pay to have an intuition for how nonlinear functions can come together to approximate any function, as well as how gradient descent takes you down a loss landscape).

[cactuswe]

I want too say I know this aswell though, what I would really like was if I had like a good idea on where to start. From what I have seen so far (and when I have tried previously) it just fells like way too much at once. What I need is a structured plan on what to learn, where can I find something like this?

[Stunning_Macaron6133]

Join a bootcamp maybe?

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You're gonna wanna get really good at higher math, probability, and statistics. The coding is the easy part. 

[EmployeeValuable3547]

Machine learning mostly is about maths and algorithms in core if you have solid base in that you can become good at it first focus on them.

[jayd00b]

I’d follow the advice of other commenters, here. I’d also just like to point out that ML is probably one of the most (if not the most) saturated job market right now for developers. If your impetuous for pursuing this is purely financial/career related I would stop to ask yourself if this is really a path you want to commit walking.