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Re:Ask HN: Is web development still a viable career choice? by shortoncash on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @10:38AM (#18856241)
Most ML jobs are sitting around scrubbing data. The fun math part is like 5% of the job, and usually there's some guy (or a small handful of guys) that's a PhD who is hired to do all of that because he was in the research area before he left academia.

I could be wrong, but this is my experience.

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Re:Ask HN: Is web development still a viable career choice? by softawre on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @01:45PM (#18858189)
Agreed. We call that team "operations research" and they are all PhDs. The ML devs build the pipelines and deal with engineering concerns around having/moving/securing lots of data.
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