Can you learn machine learning in a year?

<p>This post is for anyone considering a career move into the field of machine learning.</p> <p>Of course, the answer to the titular question is &ldquo;it depends&rdquo;. But what does it depend on, exactly?</p> <p>Rather than try and give some generic answer to the question that suits no one in particular, I will instead attempt to describe my own experience over the past year in such a way that you can translate my world to yours and answer this question for yourself.</p> <p>As with any journey, the outcome will be influenced by where you start, how fast you travel, and where you&rsquo;re headed. To put this in terms of learning machine learning, we can ponder the questions:</p> <ol> <li>How much do you know already?</li> <li>How much time will you spend?</li> <li>Which areas of ML do you want to learn?</li> </ol> <p>For those in a hurry, the first few sections below (a five-minute read) will answer the above three questions from my perspective, and then I&rsquo;ll tell you how far I got. I will then proceed to ramble on for quite some time about various things I found interesting along the way, that I reckon you might find interesting too.</p> <p><a href="https://betterprogramming.pub/can-you-learn-machine-learning-in-a-year-6edf66623121">Read More</a></p>