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> There’s an abundance of supply of people with masters degrees in machine learning? How’s that possible? I thought this shit was supposed to be hard.

I think it's just a matter of proliferation of these types of programs, as well as a large supply of students.

Also, the average qualification of people working in ML is probably no longer a Ph.D, like it used to be. This is arguably because deep learning techniques require less involved math to understand, and are more focused on computational methods that work well.

So the field has probably saturated. When I got involved with ML for the first time (well, really, statistical signal processing) in the mid 2000s, the field was kind of dead, and very high qualified postdocs had tough time finding jobs.