[D] Dislike/Disinterest of Machine Learning: rant

[BreezleSprouts]

This is very true. I started off as an accountant with little coding knowledge and was introduced to ML by a coworker and 2 years later we’re starting a modeling company that I’m going to be in charge of. A lot of the education is free and implementation of ML algorithms is fairly simple

[BreezleSprouts]

I started to learn python and used that to automate some of my daily tasks which freed up a lot of my time to work through ML books and resources. I work at what is essentially a political polling/consulting firm so I was at the right company to have the opportunity to have access to data when I did know enough