and truth be told: anders madsen has a full CS degree. So he basically took a 1-2 year private PhD-time, in which he produced 1 paper. Which is not terribly spe

and truth be told: anders madsen has a full CS degree. So he basically took a 1-2 year private PhD-time, in which he produced 1 paper. Which is not terribly special. As for the person in question: there's money in it and if there are more aspiring people to do the grunt work (data cleaning, hyperparameter tuning) eventually prices will fall. And you definitely don't need a CS degree for that.