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  "path": "/t/no-ai-background-here-how-did-things-start-to-make-sense-for-you/172646#post_8",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-30T21:42:50.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Take Dr. Ng’s Machine Learning Specialization course from Deeplearning.ai. It’s a gentle intro to a somewhat mathematically brutal subject (I’m a math dummy. Like, bad.) but even without a strong math background you will really get a sense of the underlying “how it works” of AI. The course is like $40. He’s a good teacher and it’s take-it-till-you-pass. The labs are tough without a python background but that’s OK-you’ll learn a little bit about python along the way (they give you the answers so no need to learn coding).\n\nI’m still blown away by the fact that y=mx+b I had to learn in high school algebra is a fundamental underlying equation of AI. If I’d known that it was actually going to be USEFUL someday I might have paid attention",
  "title": "No AI background here — how did things start to make sense for you?"
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