1) I'm not his manager. 2) I've sent him half a dozen papers about topics ranging from heuristic search to genetic programming to general good ML practices. He

1) I'm not his manager. 2) I've sent him half a dozen papers about topics ranging from heuristic search to genetic programming to general good ML practices. He's read none of them. 3) He believes he knows what he's doing. Those who do not want to be helped cannot be helped. And an intensive course won't fill all the statistics and math requirements he doesn't have.