I don’t think the background is really that important tbh. From physics I have a good theoretical grounding in how ML works (optimizing a cost function over a

I don’t think the background is really that important tbh. From physics I have a good theoretical grounding in how ML works (optimizing a cost function over a high dimensional manifold to reconstruct a probability distribution, then using the distribution for some task) but I personally find actually ‘doing ML’ to be rather dull.