I'm a programmer generalist who's on the quest to find specialization in Machine Learning and AI in general. I'm trying to structure and optimize my self-educ

I'm a programmer generalist who's on the quest to find specialization in Machine Learning and AI in general. I'm trying to structure and optimize my self-education in those fields to build up a solid foundation over the next few years. I'm more interested in being able to apply those technologies to solve interesting hard problems (with the building company in mind) than in research. Would love to chat to people experienced or formally educated in those fields, to get advice on how to structure the learning process better, what to focus on and so on. Also would love to meet anyone who has similar interests (or also psychology, neuroscience, philosophy of mind). Background: engineer with the experience in full-stack. Programmning: Scala, Ruby, Python, JS. C/C++(long ago though) Machine Learning: only finished coursera course and played with 101 Kaggle competitions. artem.yankov@gmail.com