[HN Gopher] Learn ML through live team competitions, not lectures
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Learn ML through live team competitions, not lectures
Author : henry_pulver
Score : 76 points
Date : 2022-06-11 13:57 UTC (9 hours ago)
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| sva_ wrote:
| The price seems a bit steep to participate in a competition (60
| USD for a month)
| henry_pulver wrote:
| If it was just 1 competition, I'd agree with you.
|
| It's more a cohort-based online class that's punctuated by
| competitions (once per week). The competitions serve to
| motivate you to learn in a fun finale each week, rather than
| all being about winning. :)
|
| The price tag includes 12 tutorials with exercises, 4
| competitions (incl live discussion of solutions with the
| cohort) and expert code review from instructors on all the
| exercises.
| hetzenmat wrote:
| Everytime I read something like "learn ML" I think about learning
| some descendant of the ML programming language like OCaml, F# or
| Standard ML instead of machine learning.
| wawjgreen wrote:
| that is exactly what i had thought. i think they should write
| (MLe)
| hourago wrote:
| This is a common problem. Acronyms are short but provide less
| information. Without the proper context it is difficult to know
| what do they refer to.
|
| In Wikipedia, your interpretation is the first result:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML
| number6 wrote:
| Not sure if you are joking or not
| randomcatuser wrote:
| Actually quite common, depending on what community you hang
| out in! For example, in sales they use # of SQL (sales
| qualified leads)
| casion wrote:
| Whether the parent is joking or not, I also see ML as ML
| (Meta Language) not ML (Machine Learning).
|
| I have zero exposure to machine learning, but am immersed in
| FP so...
| crimsoneer wrote:
| At the risk of sounding like an utter moron, is anybody else
| struggling to pay (option to add name and address to the payment
| card are greyed out?)
| Barrin92 wrote:
| Every time I read a slogan like "learn X in Y weeks" or "learn
| through games instead of lectures", I have to think of a Peter
| Norvig piece: _Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years_.
|
| Honestly instead of taking paid courses that promise to teach
| incredibly difficult subjects in weeks, just take one of the
| longer courses like Andrew Ng's that start with the fundamentals
| and are free. Bootcamp style education is awful.
|
| https://norvig.com/21-days.html
| cultofmetatron wrote:
| how does this compare to kaggle?
| henry_pulver wrote:
| Kaggle has big competitions over several months. They're
| designed to find top machine learning talent & innovative
| solutions to the problems they set. Typically the winners
| aren't just learning ML, they're seasoned pros doing it as a
| side project.
|
| Our competitions are designed to teach. Each is a progression
| in difficulty over the previous one. Also there are a set of
| tutorials preceding each competition which get you up to speed
| on what you'll learn in the competition.
|
| Plus we're organised into a cohort so you're not competing with
| the whole world - rather you're competing with your peers who
| are also learning. You work in a pair on the competition. Then
| we discuss the solutions teams came up with & what an 'ideal'
| solution would look like (if one exists - sometimes it
| doesn't!).
| dangom wrote:
| how much time should one dedicate per day? Is this course
| compatible with working full-time?
| henry_pulver wrote:
| We've designed it to be very compatible with working full
| time!
|
| We suggest ~10 hours per week, although except for the 30
| min live competition each week, all of these hours can be
| done at times that suit you.
| cosentiyes wrote:
| > Learn reinforcement learning in 4 weeks
|
| There are so many high quality, free resources online for
| learning RL [1,2,...]. Four weeks of primarily self-guided M-F
| study isn't nearly enough time to obtain anything more than a
| cursory understanding of the topic. Kaggle, various gym
| environment baselines, and workshop competitions exist for those
| who want to compete.
|
| [1] https://www.deepmind.com/learning-resources/introduction-
| to-... [2] http://incompleteideas.net/book/the-book-2nd.html
| riedel wrote:
| We do this as part of our university practical course as well (2
| week challenges in teams of 4, sometimes participating also in
| external competitions). While I agree that this good for
| learning, I would, however, say it is completary to lectures. It
| makes no sense if people just learn to overfit some hyperparams
| to beat a score. So rating should at least be done wisely.
| Otherwise I think people need lectures to understand the real
| limits of tech and actually find novel uses.
|
| With many good lecture contents online I think it also would be
| good to also switch to more live competitions at university to do
| inverted classroom style learning. I think it is the mix that
| matters (along with the quality)
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