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Lecture 01 - The Learning Problem

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The first lecture of Caltech's CS 156 Machine Learning course by Yaser Abu-Mostafa, introducing the learning problem and supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning. It is one of 18 lectures in the Learning from Data course.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended repeatedly in 'where do I start with ML' threads as a clear, math-aware introduction.

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“I have found the Caltech machine learning intro course to be the most elucidating of any resource so far”
— bob1029, Apr 2023, in “Ask HN: I am a full stack developer, where do I start learning for AI”

What HN commenters said

6 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

bob1029Apr 2023Strongly recommends

I have found the Caltech machine learning intro course to be the most elucidating of any resource so far: ▶ this video The delivery of the lecture material was like butter to me. Might work differently for others though.

in “Ask HN: I am a full stack developer, where do I start learning for AI” · View on HN

xtiansimonJul 2017Strongly recommends

I'm a neophyte to ML, but one course I very much enjoyed auditing was "Learning from Data" [1] taught by Caltech Professor Yaser Abu-Mostafa. I found concept of the _Learning Model_ particularly fresh representation of the ML activity (starting at 14:39 in the first video linked here [2]) [1]: [link] [2]: ▶ this video

in “A Curated List of AI and Machine Learning Resources from Around the Web” · View on HN

GoldenMonkeyAug 2023Recommends

Caltech machine learning intro course: ▶ this video karpathy's Zero to Hero series ( [link] ) meta llama 2 - is open source [link] Tools: ai - hosting Banana - Machine Learning Model Deployment on Serverless GPUs [link] pinecone - vector database: [link] how to run AI language models on a single cpu pc - [link]

in “Ask HN: In 2023 which is the best path to get good at machine and deep learning?” · View on HN

bonkerfied23Jan 2018Recommends

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Christopher Bishop. Book: [link] Notes: Its very very math heavy but if you really want to grasp the concepts and the idea around each topic, this is one of the way to go. Online Lectures: ▶ this video I like how he explains stuff and adds some context behind the math of each topic. Alternative: [link] A pretty good youtube channel that follows up on modern machine learning and he has all of his video tutorial demos on GitHub. Hope this helps fellow Machine Learner :)

in “Ask HN: How to Seriously Start with Machine Learning and AI” · View on HN

weishigonameOct 2016Recommends

there are some lectures about machine learning on youtube. I think they are good to watch: ▶ this video and [link] and my favorite channels are Standford and MIT open courseware [link] and [link]

in “Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?” · View on HN

selimthegrimJun 2016Cites it

[link] ▶ this video (incidentally for graycat, Yaser Abumostafa is a Muslim Egyptian immigrant from Cairo) He covers the VC dimension in [link] , and leaves the proof to an appendix of the book.

in “A Stark Nuclear Warning” · View on HN

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Machine learning & deep learningUniversity lectures & coursesmachine learninglearning from datavc dimensionsupervised learningcaltech