Everything you ever wanted to know about machine learning

Putting the fun in the basics! A collection of short videos to entertain beginners and experts alike

Looking for a fun introduction to AI with a sense of humor? Look no further than Making Friends with Machine Learning (MFML), a cute free YouTube course built with everyone in mind. Yes everyone. If you’re reading this, the course is for you!

Short videos: Most of the videos below are between 1 and 5 minutes long, meaning you can build your knowledge in small, well, bites. Tasty bites! Dive right in or scroll down to find the topic you want to learn more about.

Long videos: For those who prefer to study in 1-2 hour holidays, the course is also available in 4 longer installments here.

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Unsupervised learning

Lazy learning

Linear classifiers

Decision trees and random forests

Ensembles

Naive Bays

Regression models

Deep learning

Making friends with machine learning was just an internal Google course specially designed to inspire beginners and entertain experts.* Today it’s available to everyone!

The course is designed to give you the tools you need to effectively engage in machine learning to solve business problems and to be a good citizen in an increasingly AI-powered world. MFML is perfect for all people; it focuses on conceptual understanding (rather than mathematical and programming details) and walks you through the ideas that form the basis of successful approaches to machine learning. There is something for everyone!

After completing this course you will:

• Gain an intuitive and sound understanding of the fundamental concepts of machine learning.
• Get a taste of a few popular machine learning methods.
• Avoid common machine learning mistakes.
• Learn how machine learning can help your ventures.
• Gain insight into the steps involved in leading machine learning projects from concept to launch and beyond.
• Improve your ability to communicate with machine learning experts and non-experts alike.

“I was just blown away by the quality of her performance. It was a 6-hour (!) tour de force; every minute of it Cassie was clear, funny, energetic, accessible, insightful and informative. — Hal Abelsonprofessor of computer science at MIT

“I cannot stress enough how valuable it was that this course was aimed at a wide audience.” — HR specialist

“Fantastic class, plus it’s fun!” – Software Engineer

“Now I feel more confident in my understanding of ML…I loved it.” — Communications Manager

“More useful than any of the courses I took at university on these things.” — Reliability Engineer

“I loved how she structured the course, knowing the content and navigating this full day course without boring us. So I learned two things in this lesson. 1) Machine Learning and 2) Presentation Skills.” — Executive

“Great stuff: would recommend.” — ML Research Associate

“…always interesting and holds my attention.” — Senior Manager, Engineering

“…well structured, clear, put at the right level for people like me and full of helpful visuals and stories to help me understand and remember. I learnt a lot. — Senior Manager, Sales

“The MFML class was phenomenal. It laid the foundation for understanding best practices and increased my confidence in trying to apply machine learning.” — Product Technology Manager

“For the first time, I feel like I understood 90%+ of the content. I’m usually lost all the time, feel extremely stupid and want to cry. – Program Manager

“Much higher level than the other courses, but also more general and more complete. It offers a great overview of the subject… it filled in a lot of the “holes” I had. It really demystifies a lot of things. – Software Engineer

“Although I studied and used ML in the past (~8 years ago) but I got bored so I wasn’t very interested in the recent trend… After this refresher I feel I can rebuild that relationship and be friends with ML again. “ – Product Manager

“Otherwise esoteric material was made accessible and enjoyable thanks to Cassie’s deep expertise, wit and humor.” — User Experience Designer

There’s a lot of junk out there, so if you think this course is better than most alternatives, please help it stand out from the crowd by sharing it with your community. To make the course author smile, just choose a video you like and post it somewhere, anywhere.

PS Have you ever tried hitting the clap button here on Medium more than once to see what happens? 💖

Kasi Kozyrkov is a data scientist and leader at Google on a mission to democratize intelligence for decision-making and safe, reliable AI.

Original. Republished with permission.