Who am I? I'm a college dropout that never felt better. Why I quit college you wonder? I have discovered my passion and found meaning to my life. How I did it ? I have severe depression for years. I never knew what I wanted to do with my life, up until now.
First, I asked my self, what do I want. What do I truly want, no matter how improbable it is. If I had infinite resources, and all the time in the world to do one thing, just one, what would it be. Freedom, complete freedom, to not depend on anyone, never to ask anyone's permission to do what I want. What is it and why do I want it.
I've always wanted to learn Artificial Intelligence, and Machine learning, but things always seemed to get in the way. I was attending School of Electrical Engineering, and studied electronics, but my heart was never in it. AI is the thing I want, and I'm going all out.
Second, I came to the grueling conclusion, life is not my playing field and there are certain laws that have to be followed.
I don't have infinite resources, obviously, but what is the bare minimum I need to have. What skills do I need to posses to succeed? I have depression, have to get rid of that. I'm impulsive, have to stop that. I'm indecisive where to start. Deep learning is the first subject I will learn.
Third, I have to come with a way to make a living from AI, fortunately I have savings, that will get me through couple of months, up until I have studied enough of the field to start earning income.
Hope to see you in next posts, in which I will cover the progress I'm making. :D
I would suggest signing up for the coursera machine learning course by andrew ng, it's free and is supposed to be a good introduction to modern ai techniques. Also this book: https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Learning-Adaptive-Computation-Machine-ebook/dp/B01MRVFGX4/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1510273866&sr=8-3&keywords=deep+learning seems to be the most modern ai book that focuses on deep learning stuff
The course is excellent. That book is hard to digest, though, I have three years of electrical engineering, and we did some horrific math, this book takes it to another level with complications it introduces.
we started on AI with some common lisp programming BFS and n-queens. I think still that will be a good starting point. From what I see today people are confused between AI, ML and simple bots that even existing within editors like emacs.
I think that we should learn Deep Learning first, instead of the classic AI, and especially needed prerequisites (math and programming) to get started, you ?