Journey to Machine Learning – Towards Data Science

Would you let an Artificial Intelligence make decisions on for behalf? — If Yes, then to what extent, maybe your life depends on it. With all the talk about AI and calls for its regulation (apparently AI will kill us all someday,) I’ve been thinking about under what circumstances we might take away the decision making from the machines (call it AI). But still we use them to our advantage (as much as we can) — that’s not as crazy as it sounds, because humanity has been doing that for years already. It’s everywhere, and there is no hiding from the fact that it is here to stay.

From the incredibly-friendly voice of Apple’s personal assistant, Siri, to movies like Ex-Machina, Al has always excited me more than anything else. I don’t know about you, but the very idea that Netflix can actually predict a recommendation list of movies based on your reaction to a previously seen movie sounds fascinating to me. Then one day out of nowhere I come across a video on Youtube by Siraj Raval, in which he talked about something called #100DaysOfMLCode Challenge. It means coding and studying machine learning for at least an hour, every day for the next 100 days. I highly recommend to check out the video .

It was just the right type of motivation that I needed to start learning in depth about something I’ve always cared about. So I took this challenge and started learning about machine learning.

Beginning with the most basic algorithms and implementing them in the Python language. Just so that I have a good log for everything that I’ve learned, I created a repository on GitHub. I will highly recommend you to do the same. As I continually learned new things about ML, I’ve also updated the repositorywith the code for implementing ML algorithms along with some info-graphics for better understanding.

The response that I’ve received for the repository is very overwhelming, to say the least, I didn’t expect this. People have been supporting me from every corner of Social Media, and it most certainly humbles me, and I would like to take this opportunity to say thanks to everyone who has given their precious time to me.

Numbers are not relevant here, because I didn’t do this for fame or any popularity. I did it because I wanted to, I care about it, and I believe that I can make a difference.