On: Ask HN: How does a beginner best spend one week of learning machine learning?

[bpp]

Here's a great repo from my friend Preston Parry (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ClimbsRocks): https://github.com/ClimbsRocks/learningmachines

It's in JavaScript, but if that works for you, clone it down and work through the instructions until it isn't broken. He created it as part of a lecture at Hack Reactor called "A Conjurer's Guide to Machine Learning," so it's a great way to get started without going too deep into the details.