Stop Coding Machine Learning Algorithms From Scratch

Last Updated on August 12, 2019

You Don’t Have To Implement Algorithms
…if you’re a beginner and just getting started.

Stop.

Are you implementing a machine learning algorithm at the moment?

Why?

Implementing algorithms from scratch is one of the biggest mistakes I see beginners make.

In this post you will discover:

• The algorithm implementation trap that beginners fall into.
• The very real difficulty of engineering world-class implementations of machine learning algorithms.
• Why you should be using off-the-shelf implementations.

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Let’s get started.

Caught In The Implementation Trap

Here’s a snippet of an email I received:

… I am really struggling. Why do I have to implement algorithms from scratch?

It seems that a lot of developers get caught in this challenge.

They are told or imply that:

Algorithms must be implemented
before being used.

Or that:

You can only
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