[jampekka]

> Does a career in ML require a strong understanding/knowledge of math or does it require you to be able to solve a lot of math?

No. With ANNs, unless you're doing research into totally new ML architectures, you're not gonna do any maths apart from some arithmetic. And even if you do, it's usually quite simple maths, mostly matrix multiplications and simple non-linear transformations of scalars.

Nothing even close to solving differential equations, and there is very little analytical solving of anything. Advanced stuff may need some statistics in the theory side, but not really in applications.

[vasili111]

Just to he sure that I understand the context, are you working as MLE or where from you had that knowledge?

[jampekka]

No. I use ML in academic research and teach it. Some come close to what is done in "real-world", e.g. training and evaluating LLMs with real-world datasets.