How I Got Started In Machine Learning

Last Updated on June 10, 2019

I get a lot of emails asking about how I got interested in machine learning and about my background.

I don’t think my story is special or interesting, but I’m happy to share it and honored I’m asked.

This post feels a little self-indulgent. I figure it can be the definitive version of my story that I can use to answer similar inquiries in the future.

The lessons that I point to underly much of my work on machine learning mastery and there is a slim chance that maybe there is a kernel from the story that you can take away as motivation or inspiration.

The Short Version

Here is the one-line version:

I’m a programmer who started tinkering, left his corporate job to research artificial intelligence and earn a few higher degrees and came back to programming to work on bigger problems.

Here’s the one-paragraph version:

I was awakened to the creativity and power of programming. I sought more powerful tools until I discovered artificial intelligence. I started coding and writing and wining competitions. I was working as a corporate consultant on a good path, and quit to purse
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