I was also thinking ML is a dark art and only a few selected ones are able to understand it, but then I started to look more into it took the coursera ML course

I was also thinking ML is a dark art and only a few selected ones are able to understand it, but then I started to look more into it took the coursera ML course and now I'm working trough some other lectures and it's easier than I imagined. Like you said, you just need to start working with it.