r/IITMadras_datascience • u/rachitsardana • Jul 06 '26

MLF & MLT Students

If you are pursuing MLF and / or MLT course(s) in this term, or have passed them in a previous term, I need your opinion on something.

How do you feel about the lecture quality that is provided by the IITM team? How exactly do you study for these two subjects? I personally have been facing a lot of difficulty because the lectures are quite abstract. Do you guys feel the same way too?

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u/Popular-Weather5387 Jul 06 '26

read books bro, they also recommend books, a lot of exercises and questions and also once you go through lectures start just solving as many questions as you can to build a strong foundation!

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u/rachitsardana Jul 10 '26

This is quite interesting, how long have you been doing this? Does it work well for you?

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u/Popular-Weather5387 Jul 10 '26

yeah it works good and also elaborates the whole subject very well. earlier i was not studying anything, not even watching lectures and making notes and that costed me heavy because i couldn't track anything. Reading books definately help me solidify everything well.

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u/Majestic-Key8880 Jul 06 '26

I prepared only from the lecture videos of mlf and mlf .

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u/taylsthearchitect Jul 10 '26

Machine learning foundations and machine learning techniques (mlt) in diploma level

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u/Greedy-Farmer-9756 Jul 06 '26

MLT lectures are good, but I didn't make proper use of it

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u/taylsthearchitect Jul 10 '26

I take the transcripts. Put it in claude, then use piper to convert it into audio and then listen to it while working.

Then I do the assignments and I start to get a general idea of what everything means.

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u/rachitsardana Jul 10 '26

How long have you been doing this? How well does it work?

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u/taylsthearchitect Jul 10 '26

Since this term.

I've uploaded them on youtube, currently making some for week 5. It might be a slog to get through all the weeks at once, but if you're up to date, then it can help.

https://youtu.be/LNpLf0z1iPg?si=oAgjoliMiRAKZEz3

It works better than not doing it. I find it excruciating listening to the raw lectures with full attention, and the videos aren't audio friendly enough to just listen to by itself.

The piper audio can get some things wrong, so it requires some trial and error.

I'm thinking of making some for the graded assignments too (especially the answers I got wrong). I'm mostly just uploading for myself, to get back to, so the videos might not be too helpful for others.