Is it worthwhile to do the deep learning specialization from coursera ? It has 5 courses. Is this course helpful in switching into a deep learning role ? Either within the company or at competition.
The DL specialization from coursera is amazing. It’s been developed and taught by Andrew Ng - Phd from Stanford who founded Google Brain and was Chief Scientist at Baudu. After taking this series you will have very good hands on understanding of ML.
It's very useful. There's just the right amount of theory you need to know to not be a shallow plug and player.
One of my favorite courses. I didn't even get the actual certifications but just so much to learn from his lectures. Also interspersed with interviews with AI specialists. Yes, true, you will unlikely be doing real model work, but I work a lot with researches and those who do, and helped me talk to them, understand them, work with them. Trust me all data scientists and researchers would love to have people who understood them better. They are some of the most brilliant people I have worked with at Microsoft and they are often hugely frustrated with product people because they don't get their point of view.
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To me that course looks useless because it is too much theory. Also in real life almost all AI projects are just scams. People do namesake AI projects just to fill their ego and resume. FANG companies who do real AI are filled with PHDs and you won't be able to match to them just by coursera course. (or even a fake ML project in so many other companies).
One needs a strong theoretical understanding to do well as a ML engineer. There are applied scientists who work on cutting edge stuff, but you also need SWEs / MLEs to deploy and build those models. Also the course is pretty good, covering both theory and programming assignments. There is no point leanring to call a few functions from different libraries without knowing what they do.
There aren't people other than the ones during research. One of the biggest challenges in ML at scale is infrastructure. So doing this specialization for an engg building ML infra is invaluable. It is very rare to find a quality Swe who knows this stuff well enough.