If I’m going to put time and effort into these studies, it needs to be worthwhile. At the moment the only aspect of Machine Learning that I consider to be worth studying, in terms of its intrinsic interest and possible applications, is Reinforcement Learning. Everything else is just rehashing stuff I already know, at least in general if not in detail.
The basics of RL are pretty boring and pretty difficult. I don’t expect to be posting much for a while as I really need to get some tedious stuff under my belt. Perhaps I’ll resurface on the other side.
ETA: I’ve found a new course that I can relate to a lot better than previous ones. I’m not sure if it’s better teaching, or whether the partial understanding that I’ve achieved from several other books/courses has reached some critical mass. Probably a bit of both. Anyway, I’m enjoying it this time around.