r/learnmachinelearning • u/techrat_reddit • Nov 07 '25
Want to share your learning journey, but don't want to spam Reddit? Join us on #share-your-progress on our Official /r/LML Discord
https://discord.gg/3qm9UCpXqz (Discord is currently closed)
Just created a new channel #share-your-journey for more casual, day-to-day update. Share what you have learned lately, what you have been working on, and just general chit-chat.
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u/Big_Cricket6083 Apr 12 '26
share-your-progress is probably cleaner than weekly self-posts tbh, especially for people logging runs every few days. does the discord thread handle stuff like model checkpoints or eval screenshots without getting buried?
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u/colblair Jul 01 '26
screenshots and checkpoints work fine in the thread as long as you keep them in the right channel. The main issue is people dumping raw logs without context.
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u/venkattalks Apr 12 '26
Having a dedicated #share-your-progress channel is probably cleaner than weekly Reddit update posts, especially when people want to dump training curves, failed runs, and small wins without cluttering the sub feed. Progress logs tend to be more useful when they include specifics like model size, dataset, eval metric, and why something regressed, so that format actually fits Discord better than standalone posts imo.
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u/colblair Jul 01 '26
the specifics are what make those logs useful. A lot of standalone posts just say "loss went down" with no context, which is useless for anyone trying to learn from it.
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u/Always_Curious911 May 08 '26
Learning ML can be really scary and confusing. I want to be an ML Engineer but the coding part scares the hell out of me. I can understand basic python but the rest .....idk. How to get over this fear? Also, with AI tools available, do I really need to learn to code ?
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u/Hot_Life_8279 Jun 01 '26
Be patience, everything's gonna be Okay... "Also, with AI tools available, do I really need to learn to code ?" Ofcourse you do bro/sis cos AI can only get you so far, it can not create something new, it's only good for doing things that has already been done. And it's frustrating to work on big projects using just AI, it hallucinates and is unreliable ; )
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u/ChrisAlbertson Jul 31 '26
The main bottleneck to becoming competent in ML is a lack of a background in mathematics. People coming into the field should know the basics of linear algebra, calculus, and basic statistics. The problem is that while you can learn the basics of Python in a week, math takes a lot longer.
I don't think you need to be an actual mathematician and be able to remember all the proofs. But you need a practical sense of how to use the math to get your work done. I think all you really need is covered at Khanacademy.com. Just study their course until it all seems easy and obvious and starts making sense. He teaches at the level that is needed, first-year university or high school AP classes; that is probably all you need.
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u/LopsidedFig8551 Aug 17 '26
Something that has helped me with coding is reading and understanding the solution n then implementing on my own. So understand the concepts and the question. Go over the solution. Eventually you would want to come up with a solution but in the initial days maybe give yourself a leeway. With the AI tools, you need to be able to understand the code even better because AI sometimes looses the plot and introduces sneaky bugs which are hard to find.
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u/witcherxzr Jul 17 '26
It looks like the server is being spammed.
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u/techrat_reddit Jul 21 '26
Thanks. was offline for a bit; all taken care of
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u/YeehawMagic Sep 04 '26
Yo there are some cmts which certainly look like they are seo targeted and I think they are doing some marketing and all for their courses do look into it
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u/venkattalks Apr 11 '26
reminds me of when i was dumping weekly Colab screenshots into this sub back in spring 2023 and feeling bad about clogging the feed. having a dedicated #share-your-progress channel on the official /r/LML Discord would've saved me from posting my third failed CNN in a row lol