> but 6 years ago machine learning hadn’t taken off... I definitely would have gone for CS instead. I thnk you're doing it wrong because that's exactly why the

> but 6 years ago machine learning hadn’t taken off... I definitely would have gone for CS instead. I thnk you're doing it wrong because that's exactly why there's so much demand for CS PhDs right now. Rewind to mid-2000's when the CS postdocs/phds graduating over the past couple of years were choosing to major in CS. They were warned that everything was being outsourced to India and advised to choose a "real" engineering field, or perhaps finance/physics/math. It's hard to imagine today, but lot of smaller colleges/universities were killing CS majors back in the mid 00's! So not only is there a shortage of CS PhDs in the pipeline, but the ones that made it through came in with a burning passion for the science (as opposed to the money/hotness). This combination of input bias and restricted supply is what makes the current labor market so damn hot. In 3 years, that will invert, and some major struggling to justify its existence because it's hard but has "no future" will blow up. Rinse and repeat.