I have just completed my 1st year of Btech(IITKGP). During my 1st year I have learned ML. Like from very basics to Neural network till now. My main resource has been the Andrew ng course on coursera.
The thing is I am good at theory, I can even code the algorithms. I remember the functions from scikit learn and tensor flow for models. In short I can train a model. Like I also know how can I do EDA and other data analytics before putting the model to train in some algorithm. But the thing is I dont know how these things work in real world. I want to go in the field of AI/ML so what next shall I do.
Shall I do quite a few projects like small and big (kaggle is the resource which I have in my mind)
Shall I do kaggle competitions?
Do i go deeper in Deep learning and then learn RAG, LLMs etc.
Or anything else.
I also know about a site deepml something whixh is basically the leetcode of ML so Shall I do that.
There are also a few famous book on ML, what about those, do I read them and follow along the code or what?
I am seriously very confused right now. I have 2 months holidays and I definitely dont want them to go waste. Any guidance from your end would be beneficial.