[mooneater]

Read the abstract and confirm it is relevant to you. In general, you will need to read papers if you want to be on the bleeding edge of the latest in research. That is machine learning research, and that is very specialized. But you do not necessarily need to be on the bleeding edge to be an effective machine learning engineer. For that you can use often less abstract and more digestible sources, including MOOC courses, tutorials, books of multiple levels, vendor-specific docs, etc.