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You need a PhD from a top university for that. I am feeling hopeless before even getting a PhD. I don't even have the energy or resources for that. It takes an additional five years of hard work which could be invested in learning actual skills that scale. I feel like computer science doesn't scale like engineering. Therefore, I really need a good perspective on this.

There's a big difference between ML Eng jobs and ML Research jobs. Research, yeah you'd need a top PhD and many difficult years of study. Eng, far more attainable, but IIUC it's not exactly going to feel like you're working on some crazy cutting edge tech, you'll mostly be cleaning data and tuning pipelines.

When a two-week MOOC became not enough in our industry?

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