Timeline for Switch from pure mathematics to machine learning as postdocs?
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| Feb 6, 2014 at 21:41 | comment | added | cbeleites | Another skill that is necessary if you want to get your hands on real problems is translating between the different languages like biologist <-> CS <-> math and so on | |
| Feb 6, 2014 at 21:40 | comment | added | cbeleites | "This is where mathematicians and computer scientists tend to diverge" and both tend diverge from what the scientist who works about the application at hand is intererested in... | |
| Jan 26, 2014 at 20:25 | comment | added | Peter Shor | To add to Suresh's answer, some people are born programmers, and can pick it up with very little difficulty. Some people (including at least one great mathematician I have met) are utterly incapable of thinking algorithmically, and struggle with the simplest programming tasks. Most of us are somewhere in between. So the answer to the question "How hard is it to pick up the necessary computer skills" really depends somewhat on your natural ability. | |
| Jan 25, 2014 at 20:29 | history | edited | Suresh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 25, 2014 at 17:59 | history | answered | Suresh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |