Machine Learning for Programmers

I have read a book or some posts on machine learning. I have watched some of the Coursera machine learning course. I still don't know how to get started… How do you get started in machine learning? The most common question I'm asked by developers on my newsletter is: How do I get started in machine learning? I honestly cannot remember how many times I have answered it. In this post, I lay out all of my very best thinking on this topic. You are a developer and you're interested in getting into machine learning. You read some blog posts.