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Jose Ross Barredo
Jose Ross Barredo

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Journey to Artificial Intelligence

One might say that it is pretty intimidating to get yourself into learning Artificial Intelligence. Well, actually it is. AI is such an advanced and a diverse stream of knowledge that once you encounter the word itself, you get drowned with anxietal thoughts.

The possibilty of being able to grasp the know-hows of artificial intelligence was artificial for me. I never considered crossing the path towards learning it. Imagine the algorithms, math and science that you need to immerse yourself with. It seems to me that it would take a miracle before I would even dare start with it. It is just too highly technical and is just out of the bounds of my knowledge.

I was overthinking. Anxiety and fear took over me. Learning new stuff can really be intimidating especially if you dont know an inch about the topic. I then realize that if I continue to let my insecurities prevail, how can I succeed as a better programmer and as a better computer scientist?

Eventually, I got motived when I enrolled myself in a Masters in Computer Science. The possibilities of where you might arrive when learning AI is exponential. I got interested even more after I started reading Peter Norvig's and Stuart J. Russell's book on Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. Since then I could not stop myself from learning. I am literally deep diving myself into it.

As my knowledge on Artificial Knowledge progress, I would then like to share with you with what I might be able to explain and teach. I will be posting a series of topics about AI. Let us learn together and venture the world of AI.

This is my journey with Artificial Intelligence and it has just begun. I am eager and excited for this journey!

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Ben Halpern

Good luck!

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Adrian B.G.

My story

  1. Excited about ML and AI
  2. Get resources
  3. Open the first book
  4. Read page 1,2,3
  5. Reading page 4, find a math formula 3 rows in length
  6. Close the book, forget the idea

2y later

  1. Find out that Data Scientist need Data Engineers
  2. Aha..I gotcha u
  3. Learning Data Engineering
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Jose Ross Barredo

What's with Data Engineering?

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Adrian B.G.

Not actually related with the article, but it's the closest thing I will do near the AI fields (helping data scientist build AI & deep learning for data analysis).
No math no fun

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Sahil Edward Thapa • Edited

BG, If no math no fun, then why did u close the book after encountering 3 rows length mathematical formula? :)

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Adrian B.G.

Sorry I meant there is no fun for me in that book because of my missing math skills.

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Sahil Edward Thapa

Oh, it's OK BG, nywaes, what topics are u into these days??

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Adrian B.G.

block chains, Go ... and data engineering with AWS

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Sahil Edward Thapa

Self learning?, or some help from bootcamps or online course??

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Sahil Edward Thapa

Loved the post. Nice :)