[D] Is Neuroscience background useful for ML research?

Neuroscience is just a collection of facts and data. You can read neuroscience books on your own time, don't waste your money taking paid classes for that. Build skill in mathematics and computer science which are things that benefit from having an available instructor to learn from.

ML theory is very mathematical, that will be your bottleneck in terms of making progress, not neuroscience. I think neuroscience stands to benefit more from ML theory than the other way around as we have (relatively) tons of experimental neuroscience data and yet little idea what it means. We hardly even know how to interpret what a simple feedforward artificial neural network is doing let alone the brain.

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