Totally agree with this. Many candidates I see that have a "strong interest" in machine learning have no idea wtf machine learning really entails; they are lis

Totally agree with this. Many candidates I see that have a "strong interest" in machine learning have no idea wtf machine learning really entails; they are listing it as an interest because it is a buzzword and "sounds hard". Most of them have just used scikit-learn once or twice, and have no idea about statistics. (also not at a YC company)