[Discussion] Do you feel proud to be part of the ML/DL/AI industry?

If your main job is to "make tensorflow go brrrrr" then aren't you a software developer who specializes in ML APIs (genuine question)?? If you're using out-of-the-box solutions like TFHub/HugginFace/Spacy, then that's fine - their team has covered the ML Engineering side. But as soon as you begin pulling out spanners to work on the inners, I think you need a good conceptual grasp of the mathematics - Linear Algebra, Probability, and Calculus. You don't need to be the best mathematician on the block or know every single formula and proof. But just enough so that if you have confidence in your tweaking, that you're not breaking something, and understand the limitations of what is achievable. It's safer for everyone that way.

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