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A visit to 10th Grace Hooper Celebration India(GHCI) 2019

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Looking to know more about what is GHCI?Or something like why GHCI is a big deal? GHCI is one of the biggest celebrations of women in industries. W hat's so exciting about GHCI?   For starters let's say that they have a career fair in which there are booths from companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Goldman Sachs , etc. They have men and women senior-level leaders like VP/CVP etc of big companies like Linkedin, BNY Mellon, etc as well as the new companies that are growing fast. And if that doesn't interest you, some cool goodies are given too by these companies for a simple registration, quiz, etc and the list goes on. Let's get to the main course before we are already full :P. What is GHCI (Grace Hopper Celebration India)? GHC is one of the largest technical women conferences in Asia and the US. It was co-founded by Dr. Anita Borg and Dr. Telle Whitney. in 1994. The India chapter of GHC i.e. GHCI is organized by Anita B.org India since 2010. This year, GHCI

How to get started with Machine Learning?

This post is an attempt to learn how to make machines learn i.e learning machine learning. In this blog, I am going to tell you about where to start, which language to choose etc if you want to learn Machine Learning(ML). And, don't worry if the first statement of this post seemed confusing ;P. The whole post will be easy enough to be understood by an undergrad. Step 1: ML101- Andrew Ng This is the guy who brought me to this wondrous world of Machine Learning. He has a free course running on Coursera  website. The course is  Machine Learning by Stanford . Introduction: This course talks about the following: Motivation for ML Different algorithms/models like Regression, Neural Networks, SVM etc used in ML. Advice for applying Machine Learning in real life problems Practical ML problems like recommendation systems How to make most of it: They have around 11 weeks of study. Each week has some video lectures, a quiz and a programming assignment. Try to do