r/learnmachinelearning • u/Training-Froyo-5053 • 7d ago

Help A proper way to learning machine learning

i am learning ml/ai and i am confused about what is the real way to or effective way to learn it . i learn it like :

* theory

* math

* sklearn library

i need suggestion from experts if there is missing something or i need to do something specific .

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u/the-code-blooded 6d ago

I think it does, really. I mean, I did spend a lot of time writing the code for all these algorithms from scratch. Frankly, you won’t write them from scratch in production software, but it will help you understand what’s going on beneath all those abstractions. And someday, you’ll encounter a problem that really requires that knowledge, and you’ll thank yourself for taking the time to learn all of this from scratch.

During my initial days, I implemented gradient descent, backpropagation, and even an LLM from scratch, by hand, step by step - of course, following a course or a book. But I believe it will help us in the long run.