Best resources for learning more about machine learning

June 20, 2016 1:29 AM

Looking for recommendations on reads on machine learning.

Hi all, I'm a novice who is interested in learning more about machine learning. Not as interested in the doomsday / political stuff of artificial intelligence, but more the mechanics of machine learning and how it works -- and it's applications, and future.

Assume limited computer science background. I prefer bite sized pieces instead of books, but open to all.

If you have experience in the field, also keen to hear if you have particular subtopics that you recommend I begin with. Deep learning seems to be one promising one that is particularly relevant to a lot of businesses.

posted by pando11 to Technology (4 answers total)

You might find Microsoft's resources for Azure machine learning useful + you can easily get into the tutorials.
posted by crocomancer at 3:16 AM on June 20, 2016

There is also a well recommended course at Coursera, but that might break the "limited computer science background" rule.
posted by Rabarberofficer at 4:37 AM on June 20, 2016

Definitely check out Julia Evans's blog posts on machine learning.
posted by 168 at 8:16 AM on June 20, 2016

There's this Data Science (Machine Learning) 101 intro/starter guide.
posted by anonymisc at 2:06 PM on June 20, 2016