Just a curious question

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Hey all, I’m Narayan and I’m currently doing the second course in MLS.

So I was just wondering what you guys do when you are frustrated from not being able to figure out things and when stuck, confused with conceptual stuff.

I currently am passing through a similar phase I believe, so please let me know your thoughts on this, it might be helpful for me and others with similar conditions.

Thanks.

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Hi @Narayan_Pradhan ,

Learning new concepts takes time. If you are stuck, or some course material you are not sure of, do:

  1. revisit the lecture videos
  2. write a post to the discussion forum.
    Within each course of a specialization, there is destinated discussion forum. You can also search by topic or assignment on the forum to see what other learners have experienced.
    The learning community here is very supportive.
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Hi, @Narayan_Pradhan !

What I normally do is trying to figure out a coherent explanation that I can check, say, how convolutional kernels are applied in conv layers. Then I check if I am right or not numerically, as I can verify it with pytorch or tensorflow.

Please, post your doubt and let the community do the magic :wink:

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I found myself struggling with one of the concepts in the first course. I had understood everything incredibly easily up to that point and felt frustrated that I didn’t grasp it right away. I took a break for the evening and revisited it the next day. I still didn’t quite grasp it, but I rewatched the videos and did the optional labs after it carefully reading everything and examining the code. I’m not sure what it was, but it clicked after going over it a couple times.

Sometimes you just need to take a break and come back to it. At least that’s my experience.

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