Do you have advice for people
that want to, you know, get into programming? Want to learn programming? You have
a video. What is programming?
Noob lessons, exclamation point. And I think the top comment is like,
warning, this is not for noobs. Do you
have a noob like TLDW for
that video, but also a noob?
Friendly advice on how to get into programming.
You are never going to learn programming by watching a video called
learn programming. The only way to learn programming, I think, and the
only one is the only way everyone I've ever met who can program well learned
it all in the same way. They had something they wanted to do,
and then they tried to do it, and then they were like,
oh, well, okay, this is kind of, you know, it'd be nice if the computer
could kind of do this thing, and then, you know, that's how you learn.
You just keep pushing on a project.
So the only advice I have for learning programming is go program. Somebody wrote
to me a question, like, we don't really,
they're looking to learn about recurrent neural networks and saying,
like, my company's thinking of doing recurrent, using recurrent neural networks for time series
data, but we don't really have an idea of where to use
it yet. We just want to, like, do you have any advice on how to
learn about. These are these kind of general machine learning questions,
and I think the answer is, like,
actually have a problem that you're trying to solve. And just. I see
that stuff. Oh, my God. When people talk like that, they're like, I heard machine
learning's important. Could you help us integrate machine learning
with macaroni and cheese production?
You just, I don't even. You can't help these people. Like,
who lets you run anything? Who lets that kind of person run anything?
I think we're all beginners
at some point, so it's not like they're a beginner.
It's like, my problem is not that they don't know about machine learning.
My problem is that they think that machine learning has something to say about
macaroni and cheese production. Like, I heard
about this new technology. How can I use it for why?
I don't know what it is, but how can I use it for why?
That's true. You have to build up an intuition of how because you might be
able to figure out a way. But like, the prerequisites, you should have a macaroni
and cheese problem to solve first. Exactly. And then two,
you should have more traditional, like, in the learning process
should involve more traditionally applicable problems
in the space of whatever that is of machine learning, and then see if it
could be applied to at least start with, tell me about a problem.
Like, if you have a problem, you're like, you know, some of my boxes aren't
getting enough macaroni in them. Can we use machine learning to solve
this problem? That's much, much better than, how do I apply machine
learning to macaroni and cheese?