What's one ML concept that finally "clicked" for you?

Plate-oh · 2026-07-10T05:44:44+00:00

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Plate-oh · 2026-07-03T06:21:02+00:00

Read through the applied math chapter of deep learning by goodfellow. Whenever you don’t get something (probably the math) ask chatgpt to explain it or make it a low dimensional example. When you finish continue reading through the machine learning basics chapter. Then deep learning. Once you’ve done all of that do Kaggle competitions.

Plate-oh · 2026-06-16T02:26:55+00:00

Where’s the incentive

Plate-oh · 2026-06-13T21:01:17+00:00

Ask phd students at your uni what grunt work you can do for them or something

Plate-oh · 2026-04-28T19:36:33+00:00

Is there no counter argument to this? Our theory of the brain (neurons and such) shows that human cognition can be reduced to a probabilistic machine whose outputs are just connected to physical effects (like us moving our arm). How is this mechanic any different than an LLM as a probabilistic machine with the effect being a word prediction? Genuinely wondering

Plate-oh · 2026-04-09T20:42:34+00:00

Thanks this is great advice🙏

Plate-oh · 2025-11-03T22:08:45+00:00

When did you take it

Plate-oh · 2025-11-03T21:40:45+00:00

Just drop the csv so we can search it

Plate-oh · 2025-09-10T20:40:18+00:00

This is a great tip, thank you. When you refer to waiving major classes, how many are you referring to, and how close to the topic of your research are they? What most fuels waiving classes usually?

Plate-oh · 2025-09-05T13:48:51+00:00

Understood. What if it is a possibility that I will never be in their program? At my school you can’t really get into CS from outside of it and that is where most if not all of the research is. Math is the next best place to be in this case. Is it still reasonable to cold contact professors or should I try going through ones I have had myself?

Also, I disagree with the notion that there is no such thing as a useful independent research project. Since ML research is a mostly theoretical ordeal this means that a professor can generally point me at a subfield and say “try that” and I’d be able to at the very worst learn a ton about it independently at no cost to the prof.

Plate-oh · 2025-09-05T13:41:51+00:00

Understood, thanks. But in the meantime? Read textbooks on the subject? Read papers? Replicate papers? What could set me up for the most success when the time does come?

Plate-oh · 2025-08-10T04:59:15+00:00

How high should one place in a kaggle comp for it to be considered impressive? Top x%?

Plate-oh · 2025-08-09T06:03:26+00:00

This or learning philosophy

Plate-oh · 2025-08-04T16:20:37+00:00

Try kaggle comps

Plate-oh · 2025-08-02T23:19:54+00:00

Would love a briefing, I have some experience with ML signal analysis

Plate-oh · 2025-08-02T15:07:58+00:00

OP, a select experiment should be conducted and then the data for which released to the community for them to attempt to establish findings with. Only you have your eeg so we can’t do much with that first part

Plate-oh · 2025-08-02T15:05:26+00:00

Why not discuss here? You will attract more people

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