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I've been programming for like 5 years now and never even attempted anything AI/ML related
Same. I know my limits lol
Unless you're dead set on doing everything yourself, it's pretty easy to get into.
Unless you're dead set on doing everything yourself, it's pretty easy to get into.
Get to it then
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
I learned ML most by tinkering with it myself. A lot of stuff went over my head when my teacher explained it.
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Unironically sound advice!
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.