Whiiii, the first quarter is done!!
I didn’t do everything as I had planned, but nonetheless, I am very happy with my progress!
I managed 5 weeks of Machine Learning course on Coursera (vs 5.5 weeks planned). So I will call this as a success!
For the Automatic Speech Recognition videos I watched first 6 lectures out of 12 vs I had planned to do all. Got half done, but still more than nothing! Next time will know better that 1.5 courses per quarter is more than I can do.
I will write a more detailed review of my quarter soon, but wanted to get this out first 🙂
Next up: I will take two weeks to plan out syllabus for the next quarter. (Such a good feeling to have the freedom to make it up myself to make it the most relevant to what’s going on at work right now!)
Machine Learning in the news:
Learning to learn, or the advent of augmented data scientists – no machine learning will not replace data scientists 🙂
New book:
A new popular science book on machine learning has just come out (on Sept 22nd), looks interesting and I plan to read it: The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World (amazon)