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by throw_away_777 3506 days ago
By the time you have a PhD a lot of problems may seem simple, especially in your field, but you spent 6 years of study most people haven't. The truth is that machine learning is the intersection of statistics, data analysis and software engineering. This makes it hard to learn, and also hard to get a job as companies are looking for people who are experts in all 3 fields.