6 Techniques Which Help Me Study Machine Learning Five Days Per Week

I studied machine learning every day for 9-months, then got a job. How? Like this…

Man with a mohawk (me) studying and running a business in his bedroom. Picture is a still from one of my YouTube videos.

I quit Apple. Started a web startup, it failed. My heart wasn’t in it.

I wanted to learn machine learning. It got me excited. I was going to learn it all. I wouldn’t need to program all the rules, the machine would learn it for me. But I had no job.

Excitement doesn’t pay for things.

I started driving Uber on the weekends to pay for my studies.

I loved meeting new people but I hated driving a car all the time. Traffic, stop, start, fuel do I have enough fuel I think I do, the air, the aircon, changing gears, you shouldn’t go that way you should go this way, all of it.

I studied machine learning. All day, five days a week. And it was hard. It’s still hard.

Uber on the weekends. Machine learning during the week. That was my routine. I had to learn. I must learn this, I can’t keep driving, I don’t know what my goal is yet but I know it’s not driving. One Saturday night I earned $280 and got a $290 fine. -$10 for the night.

9-months into my self-created AI Masters Degree, I got a job. It was the best job I’ve ever had.