6 Years of Studying ML in 16 Minutes

Author(s): Boris Meinardus

Originally published on Towards AI.

I have been studying machine learning for the past 6 years — here is my journey.

I have been studying machine learning for the past 6 years, in which I worked as an ML student researcher for over 2 years, and have even written my first 3 papers.

My journey started studying computer engineering, not knowing what ML was or even that it existed, to where I am now, soon joining my favorite AI startup as a research scientist!

In this blog post, I will be sharing my experience over these 6 years and explain what I did each year to get where I am now.

Things like what to expect for the first few years, what I did to get my first ML student roles, and most importantly, what you should be avoiding!

And trust me, there is a lot…

Okay, before we get to years one and two, how did I get into tech?

Well, young Boris liked physics and math in high school and thought,

Hmm, with physics you can’t really make money, so I need to do engineering, i.e. applied physics.

Building a robot would be really cool!

But then I also need know how to program the robot to make it do the stuff I want it to do!

At that time, I didn’t know AI and ML existed, but those… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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