[ujal]

I completely agree. Machine Learning is on the way to become a field like Web Development. There is a huge supply/demand gap that will only get wider.

[DoofusOfDeath]

With the caveat that holding a PhD is positively correlated with success in ML, and negatively correlated with success in web dev.

(I'm guessing.)

[edouard-harris]

Having done both with varying success, I definitely agree that your brain needs to be wired differently for each.

In web dev, experimentation is cheap, so you make changes fast and see what happens. In many ML applications, trying stuff is expensive in time and/or money. So the best strategy is often to think hard about what could be going wrong, and make and test explicit hypotheses.

The difference definitely came as a surprise to me when I was making the transition.

[DoofusOfDeath]

Yeah, web dev seems to favor the bold, whereas DL or other highly brainy endeavors seem to favor the thorough / careful developer.

For a long time as a non-web dev, I reckoned that I was smarter than 99% of the web devs. Then a web-dev friend of mine made his first few million $, and I reached some humbling conclusions.

[ummonk]

Sounds like I should start moving towards ML...