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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…
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.