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May I know which books/courses/blogs you used to learn machine learning? I'm learning it myself and I have just finished reading "Programming Collective Intelligence".

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Sure, I started off with Andrew Ng's course on coursera. Then I started with the book called Machine Learning by Tom Mitchell. I also have the PCI book to supplement Mitchell's book with code examples. I got Bishop's book too but to be honest I'm finding it a little harder to follow than the others.

I'm almost through Andrew Ng's course. Did you do all the programming activities to reinforce the lectures? I've been keeping pace with the lectures, but hadn't done the homework/programming. Now I'm going back and completing them one-by-one.

I was thinking about watching Tom Mitchell's CMU course online next. Have you checked that out?

PS. Is it just me or is Andrew Ng incredible? I thought I had good professors in college, but he is on another level.

No I am exactly in the same place. I missed the programming activities (I was going to use numpy instead of octave and it turned out to be too much of an effort). I have re-enrolled in the course going on now so I am also going to do the assignments now.

Also thanks for mentioning Tom Mitchell's course, I didn't know about it. I will be sure to check it out.

And yes I agree Andrew is a great teacher. It became even more obvious when I tried to read up on areas he had not covered in the course.

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