So, I have recently done two out of the three courses of the Machine learning specialization by Prof Andrew NG, and I found them fascinating, but my question is when should I start working on my own projects? should I wait till I finish the specialization or even take more specializations before doing a project, that’s the first question.
Secondly, some of the practice labs in the second course were quite advanced applications and a friend advised me to actually go ahead and upload those labs on my GitHub profile as a sort of mini projects so is it advisable to do so? I want to know what you guys think of that.
last but not the least I was thinking that after finishing the ML specialization a good place to start doing projects would be the short courses here on our lovely platform, I want your advice on this too pourfavor.
Thanks in advance you are really a great community, and I am very happy to be a part of it .
Yes, I think you can start projects any time, for the purpose of practicing what you have learnt. Usually doing a project motivates people to explore and learn more, and that is good.
No, it is not adviced to share your labs. The labs were developed by a company, and you need permissions to share them. In fact, it is generally not allowed.
Are you talking about DLAI’s short courses? As far as I know, they are not project-oriented, but aim to teach something, just like MLS. Some easy places for finding datasets are like Kaggle, UCI machine learning repository, and so you get a dataset, and get started!
I mean I will change the whole notebook structure and just take the Neural Network part for example that I built and train it on a bigger dataset, so I am not saying that I will share the lab as it is ofc.
as for the DLAI’s short courses some of them are actually about building a system based on LLM API’s and stuff like that so I guess some of them are project oriented, but correct me if I am wrong.
I see, @Ahmed_Ragab_saad. We cannot discuss here to what extent you can use the lab’s code, because I am not a representative of the company in this matter, and they reserve their rights.
So, the best would be for you to just make the whole notebook yourself.
Well, why not just see it for yourself! As far as I know, each short course won’t take you more than a few hours to complete. So, you take it, see it, and decide whether it is the kind of project you are looking for? Maybe you are right
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