Before you jump into deep learning, I would strongly advise you to do a few introductory machine learning courses to get up to speed with fundamental concepts like clustering, regression, evaluation metrics, etc.  Here is a thread including a few recent courses you can explore: This is a crosspost of a Twitter thread I published earlier this week. Elements of AI by University of Helsinki Note: I have taken many machine learning courses online. I do some courses for fun […]

I have been studying natural language processing (NLP) since 2013, back when manual feature engineering was very popular in the world of machine learning. We have come a long way since then. I actually specialized in information retrieval and machine learning techniques for my Ph.D., particularly how they apply to social computing and computational linguistics, while at the same time developing approaches for efficient information extraction from large-scale text-based data. I am fortunate to have experience with classical machine learning […]