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   by ta46290193 6y ago

   I suppose it's like software development generally. To be good at it you need a sense of what good programming feels like, but advanced books like Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" aren't really relevant to
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   by ta46290193 6y ago

   Do you know if the typical ML hiring process is able to distinguish between someone at the MOOC/"Machine Learning with [current popular language/library]" level from someone who's done hundreds of problems in a grad
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   by ta46290193 6y ago

   The number of technical jobs that actually require a math PhD must be relatively small. I'm on the other end of it, trying to avoid the situation where the degree type is meaningless, because this means that, as far as credentials go,
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   by ta46290193 6y ago

   My impression of ML has been that there are two types of jobs: one, the most common, where you're basically plugging values into tools like scikit-learn or TensorFlow and spending most of your day-to-day fussing around with data wrangl
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   Ask HN: Can refreshing my advanced math background turn into a related job?

   16 points by ta46290193 6y ago|19 comments