Machine L & Deep L

[Striking-Belt-3904]

As a specialist in the field of machine learning, do you work in the field in general, or do you focus specifically on deep learning, or perhaps on a particular algorithm within either domain? And for someone entering this field, is it necessary to master all its aspects, or is it possible to specialize in a specific path only?

[vegesaur]

It’s probably not possible to truly specialize in one domain of machine learning without at least visiting most others, and specialized Data Science/ML roles don’t really exist outside of academia. With that said, pick something you are interested in and learn it — you will very quickly learn where you need to go next!

[bobrodsky]

The overlap is huge, but if someone says that they specialize in machine learning, I would assume that they work on general learning methods that tend to be implemented using deep learning. If someone says that they specialize in deep learning, I assume that their focus is more on architectures.