Summary:

The article gives advice on how to learn deep learning, drawing on the author's personal experience. It emphasizes the importance of practice and hands-on experience, as well as the need to build a strong foundation of theory. The author recommends taking courses and experimenting with real-life problems, and stresses the value of sharing your work and seeking out mentorship and community support. The article also discusses specific topics such as debugging, time management, and working with hardware.

"There’s just a way of learning that applies to most domains, and once you sort of find that to be successful in one domain, it’s not that hard to just basically say ‘copy paste’." — David Heinemeier Hansson, (View Highlight)

Note: From Meta Learning book

You cannot achieve proficiency in a field, no matter how theoretical it seems, without making practice your highlight. (View Highlight)

Note: Practical > Theoretical

The moment you consider something other than your main activity, your mind switches contexts. It drops the information you were holding in the air and starts loading information pertinent to the distraction. After just a couple of minutes, when you return to your main activity, some of the information you originally held in your mind will be gone. You might have to read the code you wrote earlier or go back to the definition of a function you rely on and read it again. Either way, you will not program or learn as effectively as you did before the interruption. To return to the original state, you will pay a price in terms of time and energy. (View Highlight)

Note: Disturbance

A single session of deep work might last anywhere from an hour to two-and-a-half hours. One session a day, if you can afford it, will enable fast progress on any project. Two sessions is believed by many to be the max that is humanly possible. I don’t think that writing code for five hours a day for several days straight is manageable. (View Highlight)

Note: Flow state duration

"You don’t sharpen your skills with resources, books, or articles. You sharpen your skills with practice. If you want to get better, go do the thing." — Jason Fried, (View Highlight)

Note: Practise

"Reading a book without taking notes is like discovering a new territory and forgetting to draw a map." — Julian Shapiro (View Highlight)