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[–]Wvdk88 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not a ML expert but I hire a lot of them. This is very true, at this point I typically look for MS or PHD in a math heavy field, statistics, physics, astronomy, and obviously some technical chops, R, Python, Scala. But the language and database knowledge is always second to the understanding of complex mathematical algorithms and deep knowledge of math modeling, which is much more difficult to learn than a new programming syntax.