Learning in 2018
So, this is a follow-up post from my earlier post on learning which you can read here . What has changed since January, well I started dissecting text and speech (or nlp and asr for the 3 letter proponents). What I realised in the process was that a lot of information seems quite foreign when you try to chew on something which doesn't fit your jaws. Learning how to understand language and speech was like that and I got bombarded by the sheer volume of ideas and concepts I had to absorb. As I reflected in the previous post, learning by doing is one of the best ways of learning new things is to just pull up your sleeves and dive into practising them. While this is very satisfying and indeed takes you forward in the journey of understanding things. It is equally important to have a depth-full understanding of the concepts you are practising. Why you may ask is it necessary to not just practice things but also understand them? Well couple of reasons, practising things gives you