[selectron]

There is no way machine learning will be a necessary skill for software engineering, if that is your motivation I would not spend time learning it. However, if you still want to learn it you should first study statistics, for instance http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/.

[boniface316]

I have started reading this book. So far so good.

[samblr]

Thanks for referring stats book.