{"slug": "no-ai-background-here-how-did-things-start-to-make-sense-for-you", "title": "No AI background here — how did things start to make sense for you?", "summary": "A learner with no math background recommends Dr. Ng's Machine Learning Specialization from Deeplearning.ai as a gentle introduction to AI, noting the course's affordability and accessibility. The learner highlights that the fundamental equation y=mx+b from high school algebra underpins AI, making the subject more relatable.", "body_md": "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", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/no-ai-background-here-how-did-things-start-to-make-sense-for-you", "canonical_source": "https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/no-ai-background-here-how-did-things-start-to-make-sense-for-you/172646#post_8", "published_at": "2026-06-30 21:42:50+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-30 21:58:58.000662+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["machine-learning", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Deeplearning.ai", "Dr. Ng"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/no-ai-background-here-how-did-things-start-to-make-sense-for-you", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/no-ai-background-here-how-did-things-start-to-make-sense-for-you.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/no-ai-background-here-how-did-things-start-to-make-sense-for-you.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/no-ai-background-here-how-did-things-start-to-make-sense-for-you.jsonld"}}