Learning ML or Learning About Learning ML? | by Pascal Janetzky | Jan, 2025

Pragmatism versus (over-)planning

We’ve all been there. Our browsers are full of them, our notes are overflowing, and we often have detailed plan on tackling them: online courses about Machine Learning, articles about Machine Learning, videos about Machine Learning.

Roaming around the internet, we are endlessly populating our list of “cool ML resources.” When we find a pre-made curriculum about how we can learn ML in X days, it’s as if we have hit the jackpot. “That’s exactly what I needed,” we tell ourselves, “that’s how I can learn ML.” We are passionate about ML, and we quickly get geared up by shiny new things, courses, learning material.