{"id":27816,"date":"2017-07-29T11:02:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T09:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=27816"},"modified":"2017-07-29T11:02:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T09:02:14","slug":"learning-machine-learning-and-nlp-from-187-quora-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/29\/learning-machine-learning-and-nlp-from-187-quora-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Machine Learning and NLP from 187 Quora Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Machine Learning is a hot subject these days. \u00a0And as with any other hot subject, there is a multitude of books, online course, videos, and guides available all over the web. \u00a0I think that this curated list of \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsupervisedmethods.com\/learning-machine-learning-and-nlp-from-185-quora-questions-cebe42e47da8\">187 Quora questions<\/a> is an interesting way of approaching the subject.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"479a\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--li\">While Quora has FAQ pages for many topics (e.g.\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/topic\/Machine-Learning\/faq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/topic\/Machine-Learning\/faq\">FAQ for Machine Learning<\/a>), they are far from comprehensive. In this post, I\u2019ve tried to provide a more thorough Quora FAQ for several machine learning and NLP topics.<\/p>\n<p id=\"f4e1\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">Quora doesn\u2019t have much structure, and many questions you find on the site are either poorly answered or extremely specific. I\u2019ve tried to include only popular questions that have good answers on general interest topics.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Machine Learning is a hot subject these days. \u00a0And as with any other hot subject, there is a multitude of books, online course, videos, and guides available all over the web. \u00a0I think that this curated list of \u00a0187 Quora questions is an interesting way of approaching the subject. While Quora has FAQ pages for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/29\/learning-machine-learning-and-nlp-from-187-quora-questions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Learning Machine Learning and NLP from 187 Quora Questions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Learning Machine Learning and NLP from 187 Quora Questions #programming #AI #MachineLearning #Quora","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,62],"tags":[1462,3493,3541],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-27816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-machine-learning","tag-quora"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28121,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/19\/what-is-the-hardest-part-about-learning-to-program\/","url_meta":{"origin":27816,"position":0},"title":"What is the hardest part about learning to program?","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"October 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Quora runs an interesting question - \"What is the hardest part about learning to program?\".\u00a0 As always, there are plenty of insightful answers with suggestions, tips, shared stories, research and statistical data, and more. 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