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[–] familyfriendly 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've been programming for like 5 years now and never even attempted anything AI/ML related

[–] Uncle_Iroh 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] familyfriendly 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Going to be starting computer science in a few weeks. I feel like AI/ML is something you want an experienced teacher for instead of botching something together

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I learned ML most by tinkering with it myself. A lot of stuff went over my head when my teacher explained it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That username does not check out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Unironically sound advice!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Yea, I agree. I think basically every programmer should at least dabble in subjects that they aren't doing. It has helped me quite a bit with my projects.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] blue_zephyr 6 points 1 year ago

Unless you're dead set on doing everything yourself, it's pretty easy to get into.

[–] xpinchx 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not as bad as you might think if you have a specific goal in mind. My scope is mainly scripts and automation (python) for data analysis and productivity.

My boss was curious about market basket analysis so I spent an afternoon following along with a tutorial and researching and got the data I needed by EOD. Most of that time was cleaning up the input data and troubleshooting because it was a huge data set.