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It's quite possible that you can teach yourself a lot of the relevant background. If you read David Barber's book cover to cover and do all the problems, that's
by soVeryTired 9y ago
It's quite possible that you can teach yourself a lot of the relevant background. If you read David Barber's book cover to cover and do all the problems, that's a machine learning masters' course covered.
But the problem is that you're competing against job applicants who already have a degree in machine learning. So it will often be the case that you're lucky to make it past an initial HR screen. If they want to interview ten people, life is easier for them to pick ten who already have the right piece of paper.
- StavrosK 9y agoHah, I couldn't read that book when I was taking his class, it's not likely I'll start now. However, to your point, "you can't teach yourself" and "you can't get a job just by reading a book" aren't the same thing. I'm not so sure you can't get a job by teaching yourself machine learning and making your own self-driving toy car or some other fun project, though.
- soVeryTired 9y agoIf someone can't understand barber, I don't think they've taught themselves machine learning. I think they've taught themselves to plug data into an off-the-shelf model.