1st sentence should be:
1. Be a fuckin math whiz.
Had it been, i would have clicked the back button.
Had it been, i would have clicked the back button.
I posted about this earlier today but ML really should be demystified. You can write a lot of commonly used algorithms in 100 lines or fewer. The math is not complex. If you can get past the notation and buzzwords like "deep learning" (it's an artificial neural network, itself a grandiose term) you'll see it's not as daunting as most think.
The reality is most "data scientists" will be working on implementation rather than creation. They'll be working on data sets and error analysis, not creating the next buzzword-laden algorithm.
Convex optimization is not high school level math.
We are trying to address this soon!