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Machine Learning and Deep Learning Courses on YouTube

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Let’s cut to the chase: You don’t need to drop thousands on a bootcamp to get good at machine learning or deep learning. You just need a roadmap, real content, and the discipline to stick with it.

But YouTube is a mess — buried in hype, low-effort playlists, and endless “hello world” demos. So I’ve done the hard part: curated the actual university-level ML/DL courses that are worth your time.

This isn’t fluff. These are full lecture series taught by the people who invented the field — from Stanford to MIT to Tübingen. And yes, it’s all free.


Foundations of Machine Learning (Start Here if You’re New)#

If you’re still asking “What’s the difference between supervised and unsupervised learning?” — start here.

These are real university courses that build your mathematical and algorithmic foundation, not just “train a model in 5 minutes” gimmicks.


Deep Learning: The Real Deal#

Once you’re solid on ML basics, this is where you start building models that make people nervous. These courses cover everything from backprop to transformers.


Specializations: NLP, Graphs, Healthcare#

Once you’ve got your DL chops, dive into areas where it gets applied in wild, real-world ways.


Real-World ML: MLOps, Deployment, and LLMs#

This is where most ML learners get stuck. It’s not enough to train a model — you need to ship it, monitor it, and not wake up at 3AM to rollback a model because it hallucinated someone’s blood type.


Bonus Tracks: CV and RL — The Fun Stuff#

If you’ve got the basics and want to go deeper into more niche but impactful areas, these courses are for you.


Final Word: Your Journey, Your Stacktrace#

Don’t watch everything. Don’t chase the latest buzzword. Pick one ML course, one DL course, and finish them. Implement things. Take notes. Break models and fix them.

Then go build something dumb but cool. That’s how you learn.

If you want more curated lists like this — with actual structure, not random playlists — let me know. I’ve got stacks of bookmarks that never made it into a blog post… yet.


Social Channels#


Community of IT Experts#


Is this content AI-generated?

No. Every article on this blog is written by me personally, drawing on decades of hands-on IT experience and a genuine passion for technology.

I use AI tools exclusively to help polish grammar and ensure my technical guidance is as clear as possible. However, the core ideas, strategic insights, and step-by-step solutions are entirely my own, born from real-world work.

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Machine Learning and Deep Learning Courses on YouTube
https://www.heyvaldemar.com/machine-learning-and-deep-learning-courses-on-youtube/
Author
Vladimir Mikhalev
Published at
2024-02-09
License
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0