Ask Slashdot: How To Get Into Machine Learning?

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 28, 2015 @06:56AM from the starting-over dept.

An anonymous reader writes: I know this is a vague question, but hoping to get some useful feedback anyway. I'm an experienced SW Engineer/Developer who is looking to get into the Machine Learning arena. I have an MS in CS and a solid 15 years of experience in a variety of areas, but no experience in Machine Learning.With that as background, my question is: What is the most time-efficient (and reasonable cost) way to:
(1) Decide whether Machine Learning is for me and
(2) Make myself employable in the field.
An additional constraint is that I can't afford to quit my full-time day job. Thanks.

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Time Efficiency is the answer by BoRegardless · 2015-12-28 07:17 · Score: 4, Insightful

Turn off the TV. Go into online learning fast & hard.
Bust your ass and eventually join some of the OSS project/s and volunteer to help.
It gets your name out there and the right people do notice that.