MIT's undergraduate ML course (Fall 2020) with notes, auto-graded exercises, and labs covering perceptrons, gradient descent, neural nets, CNNs, RNNs, and reinforcement learning. Best for learners comfortable with linear algebra who want an MIT-level problem-set experience for free.
Who it's for
Aspiring data scientists and ML engineers. This is an intermediate course in Machine Learning, running about 13 weeks (one semester).
Cost at a glance
Free. Delivered via MIT Open Learning Library; optional enrollment to track progress.
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