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Coincidentally, even I am thinking of making a switch from security to ML. I have just started my security career, but I already feel dissatisfied with not buil
by abhaynayar 5y ago
Coincidentally, even I am thinking of making a switch from security to ML. I have just started my security career, but I already feel dissatisfied with not building stuff (and instead writing reports / doing analysis).
I used to have an aversion to ML due to the hype, but when I dove a bit deeper in practice, I really liked it. Have now done several deeplearning.ai courses and building some stuff on my own.
Looking into ML engineering / infrastructure work in the long term. Hard to switch domains given how saturated ML is, but if anyone has any leads, do contact me through my HN bio.
- rakejake 5y agoThe courses and the math is the "fun part". Job will involve a lot of data cleaning and pipeline building. Not that it is not interesting (I personally find the infra building more interesting than building and tweaking models) but just fyi. Pretty much every sexy job has the 5% which is sexy and the other 95% which is grunt work.
- abhaynayar 5y agoI don't mind grunt work as long as I'm building something in the process. With most security roles you only get to look at what someone else made. If you're lucky you find something interesting, but that feedback loop is slow.
- NoPicklez 5y agoI also spend most of my time analysing businesses, documents, controls etc. Then finish it with writing a report, which usually just explains the gaps. For me, I resonated with a post around a week ago which explained someone's perspective on wanting to join a trade to do hands on work where you actually built something.