Recently I tried to study machine learning by myself. There are so many jargon/concept that made me think the entry barrier is too high. Fortunately, there are few articles or courses that really made me understand ML a little bit more. Hope they can help you as well. Machine Learning Foundations ( link ) Machine learning coursera ( link ) A MIT course to teach you how to create a self-driving car ( link ) Step by Step to learn reinforcement learning ( link ) Recurrent Neural Network ( link )