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I thought the well-paid, high prestige jobs required a Phd in the field? Or has machine learning become widespread enough for the unwashed programming masses?
by goatlover 9y ago
I thought the well-paid, high prestige jobs required a Phd in the field? Or has machine learning become widespread enough for the unwashed programming masses?
- fragmede 9y agoThere are point and click GUI tools and frameworks and libraries that simplify a great deal of complexity involved, but domain expertise is still required to be able to understand what all the parameters actually mean, eg how not to overfit the model to the training data. There are well paying ML jobs that don't involve getting a PhD first.
- PeterisP 9y agoWe now can teach applied ML to undergrads and have them complete decent practical projects using the various ML frameworks which now are quite high-level and abstract away most of the math. Properly understanding your data and what's possible is still a bit of a challenge, but that's more about general intelligence and less about any particular skill.