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📣 y3sar

How to get good as a self taught ML engineer?


I am a self taught programmer and ML engineer. At work I find myself usually downloading models from huggingaface and sometimes training them to get the job done. That is enough to impress people in my country. But I know I'm not a good ML engineer. I want to get good, real good, Andrej Karpathy good dare I say, How do I do it? I have done the Andrew Ng course and the Fast.ai course. Those got me into the field, but what do I do to thrive in this field. I really want to do some great work and help people. Great people from HN please tell me how can I level up as an ML engineer.

Thank you in advance

  👤 tsingy Accepted Answer ✓
Start with this https://mml-book.github.io/

Then this https://probml.github.io/pml-book/book1.html

👤 brucethemoose2
> I really want to do some great work and help people.

Have you looked into ML compilation?

https://github.com/merrymercy/awesome-tensor-compilers

IMO there is low hanging fruit in the space between high performance ML compilers/runtimes and the actual projects people use. If you practice porting projects you use to these frameworks, that would give you a massive performance edge.

👤 tikkun
What does thriving in this field look like to you? Getting a job at a certain company, getting a certain type of job, making a side project that reaches a certain level of success, making a startup that reaches a certain level, just having fun and making things you love, making things that a handful of users love, something else