Title: In 2017, &quot;a friend&quot;* did Andrew Ng&#x27;s original Stanford AI Coursera course.<p>- it renewed their understanding of Matrix Algebra and more importantly &quot;why&quot; they need it (being from India, they were fortunate that they learned matrices by rote, and the Indian education system ensured that details like &quot;why&quot; on earth they needed to study this thing never had a chance to pollute their pristine mind 
  &#x2F;sarcasm).<p>- it gave them an intuitive understanding of how neural networks are a sort of regression (those weights are akin to regression weights).<p>- it showed them some crazy things, such as how an image is fed into a neural network as a sequence of pixels. They suspect the way humans view images is more holistic... all pixels at the same time.<p>They did it as a lark. Because pmarca said that he would work on BTC or&#x2F;and AI if he were young again (they did the BTC Princeton Coursera too).<p>They&#x27;re glad they did Ng&#x27;s course back then. Wonderful teacher, a gift to humanity.<p>Since then, they&#x27;ve not done anything with AI (they&#x27;re gratefully and gainfully employed, albeit in an unrelated area). But they kept an eye on developments in the space, such as &quot;tensors&quot;.<p>They&#x27;re beginning to see some urgency in AI now. The noise is building up to a crescendo.<p>They want to jump in again, and dedicate every spare hour to learning more. Where it will take them, who knows. With gratitude, they don&#x27;t currently need it to earn their bread. But who knows why they might need it in future.<p>However, they don&#x27;t want to read any more &quot;think pieces&quot; in Bloomberg or Forbes about how AI will affect the future. They want to get busy learning the MVK (minimum viable knowledge) for actually building something useful, and alone.<p>The &quot;alone&quot; part is important.<p>So, they need to learn the AI equivalent of dev ops, front end, and back end. But not too much (to start with). Just enough. Give them a curriculum, HN. FLOSS&#x2F;FOSS of course. Please, and thanks in advance.<p>----------<p>* Forgive me for trying Taleb&#x27;s &quot;a friend&quot; instead of using first person. He says it gets better results.
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