Hi, I’m Sina Torfi.

I am the founder of the Instill AI and this blog, Machine Learning Mindset. My ultimate goal is to promote AI and Machine Learning to make an impact. [Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn]. Machine Learning Mindset aims to help you in the journey of becoming a Machine Learning Guru.

My full name is Amirsina Torfi (my nickname is Sina and it may look much easier to call than Amirsina! Right?), and I am a researcher and developer that dedicated my professional life to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and their application in various domains such as Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, and Healthcare. Only on GitHub, my open-source projects have 10,000+ monthly readers and 5000+ developers are currently make benefit from them. I write about Machine Learning and Deep Learning. My projects were featured and trending on GitHub and Hacker New.

• I personally have been ranked by git-awards as one of the top 20 GitHub Python developers in the USA and the top 100 worldwide.
• I supervised the development of the Python Machine Learning course, which was the GitHub trending repository of the month. This project is currently ranked as one of the top 100 GitHub machine learning projects.
•  I created the TensorFlow Course project, which was the GitHub trending repository of the month. This project is currently ranked as one of the top 10 GitHub TensorFlow projects. This project is also ranked as one of the top 30 GitHub Deep Learning projects.

• The GitHub repository associated with this blog is ranked as the top 300 GitHub accounts worldwide. This is NOT because I am a good coder! NOT at all! There are many developers out there doing that better than me for sure! I have that honor because I learned how to build a project and educate others about what I know and understand. I got to the point that realized maybe a blog is the best way to share my knowledge and use other knowledgeable people’s experience to learn.
• In this blog, we are going to provide you with step-by-step instructions on how to understand and implement different crucial concepts in AI and Machine Learning. You can start from almost zero and get it to advance, along with my step-by-step tutorials and ebooks for everyone, especially beginners who have the desire to start with minimum wondering about the useful materials.
• I am interested in sharing my knowledge. That way, I can learn better as well. It happened to me numerous times that someone gave me feedback or asked me a question and made me ponder about my knowledge again. Sometimes I ask myself, “wait a second? Are you sure? Can I do better or differently?” I like to question myself. Don’t make me wrong! It is helpful if we challenge ourselves constructively. Let me bring up a life-changing quote:

I have devoted my time to open source and educate developers and taken many various projects to the state of being GitHub trending repositories per day, week, and month. In case you are not familiar with GitHub, I should say it is the world’s leading software development platform in which everything in Machine Learning and AI, that is open source, happens there! 

Working as an open-source developer was great because you will soon understand what you do NOT know! During my years of experience as an open-source developer, I learned a crucial lesson: If we just listen to others’ experience and knowledge, little by little, we start to become an expert! There is a downside though: If we hear too much, we forget our uniqueness and lose the way! Finding that trade-off is our job.

I realized the problem was not knowing some simple concepts deeply! The secret sauce to understanding is to break a complex concept into its simpler constituent elements. So I started a blog to explain all those simple basic concepts that NOT knowing them lead to wasting a lot of time digging and searching!

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Helping others who are trying to use AI and Machine Learning and looking for insightful solutions.

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Serving the community by teaching the important concepts in Machine Learning and Deep Learning and open sourcing.

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I am a Deep Learning researcher. I am working on the application of Deep Learning in Natural Language Processing and Healthcare.

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I will keep it short for now…

I am going to share with you some short personal story and give you some advice (friendly and/or professionally) about how to start and become an expert in Machine Learning.

When I started my Machine Learning journey in 2016, I knew nothing literally! I did not know anything about Python, TensorFlow, Deep Learning, or any other buzzword related to Machine Learning, whether it was a concept or a framework. My Ph.D. advisor back then used to blame me frequently about why I do not know anything in that regard. It’s funny. Right? I just started, and my background was Electrical Engineering. I do not know how my advisor thought I should know everything as I was just started! It usually happens. Right? Someone blaming you, and you do not understand why or you are 100% sure what they say does not make sense. After a while, I realized he was right about some aspects (and not all for sure)! I was not spending enough time. Simple!

I was working hours and hours to learn more and more. After a few months, I became someone average from being a complete idiot! You may wonder how? The answer is simple: I did not overthink about if I can or cannot do it; I just did it. I just continue learning. Until after two years of hard work, something happened. My GitHub project titled TesnorFlow World (my first successful project after tens of complete failure!) became the GitHub trending project of the day, week, and month.

That was the start of me becoming confident that I can make an impact!

Then I developed many successful projects, all started after witnessing the hard work, works!!

That’s all! The followings are some of my personal thoughts on how to start and proceed:

1. Set goals that you don’t believe are too ambitious.
Machine learning is too broad, and it has a lot of different aspects. You cannot wake up, and all of a sudden, decide to over-kill it! It will look too powerful to beat in your eyes. Start with some realistic goals. A great example is as follows: I want to finish a great online course (suggestion: Coursera Machine Learning Course).

2. Do not expect too much of yourself at the beginning.
Why are you in a hurry?! You cannot expect yourself that after three months of practicing, you master a new skill! You simply CANNOT. Start with core concepts. Give yourself some time. Don’t be tough on yourself.

3. You need both theory and practice.
You don’t have to read the theory of a concept and understand every detail. One the other hand, you do not have to do practices spoon-by-spoon. BUT, you need both theory and practice. You cannot skip any of those entirely.

4. Write simple algorithms by yourself.
DO NOT try the hard ones. Start with simple and core algorithms. It helps you to think more algorithmic. Our brain needs some practice. When we start to write simple core algorithms, not only we learn more, but also it increases our self-esteem as we tell ourselves: I DID IT!

5. NEVER compare.
Do NOT compare yourself with anyone else. Don’t judge your intelligence or power of will. PRACTICE MAKES EXCELLENCE! I bet you heard that. Right? Seriously, you should not waste your mental energy but constantly comparing yourself with others! You do not know the whole story of anybody else. You cannot blame yourself just because you believe you are dumb in Machine Learning. If you think so, not only you are wrong, but you are missing the point: Have you tried it? Work for 100 hours, and you see how better you got. Work for 1000 hours, and you are an absolute expert. Work for 10000 hours, and you are UNSTOPPABLE!!

““THE FIRMER YOUR GRASP ON REALITY, THE MORE POWER YOU WILL HAVE TO ALTER IT FOR YOUR PURPOSES.” 

― 50 Cent, The 50th Law”

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