Another note, you have no choice unless you got a masters and PhD degrees after
Bachelor to work in the field itself.
If you are Pharmacist, for example, and want machine learning knowledge for
your work, you can have such courses and Masters of Engineering is enough for
you.
Regards,
Mohamed E. Fayed
On 28 Jan 2022, at 2:23 PM, Muhammad Fayed <m10fayed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
Hope my mail finds you well,
Regarding your question, I’m an associate R&D Engineer in AIC in Neural
Machine Translation team. Our work is mainly in Deep learning. Let me benefit
you.
First, regarding Math, deep learning is not about math only, it is about data
cleaning and how to augment the data to generate larger data and to benefit
the model and make the model robust against small changes. I read papers a
lot of the time, and I just ignore the mathematics since it is written in PDF
and PDFs are known for being poorly accessible in math content.
You will need to study matrices mathematics, which is annoying at the
beginning, but you can juts know how to do it and map it to single variables.
Matrices equations are not different from single variable equations to be
easily understandable. But, you need to watch out of matrices dimensions,
which is nota big deal when you are used to.
If I need to understand mathematics of a paper, I just request from a
colleague to read it out for me, or search for online explanation if the
paper is influential and not very new.
Second, regarding tools to use, you only need to access a high performance
GPU. That’s the main issue. Personally, I was using Google Cloud Platform for
my final project in the University and access my virtual machine via SSH
protocols. Jupiter Notebooks are not accessible to the best of my knowledge
till now for editing. So, you can’t depend on Google Colab. Update me if
there is any good news about accessibility of Jupiter Notebooks.
In work, you will work on either MS Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform GCP or
your companies cluster and all are accessible via SSH protocol.
So, don’t try to escape from using terminal.
Mostly in your work, you will require dealing with Linux, unless you work in
Microsoft itself. So, you may buy a linux machine for yourself or a Macbook
or whatever Mac device. The terminal across them has slight changes. I don’t
think Windows Subsystem for Linux is mature enough now to fully function as a
linux machine. You should determine which makes you happier in work.
The life in AI is not so great yet, but it requires time til it becomes so
and may be sighted persons won’t care very soon.
Hope it helps,
Regards,
Mohamed E. Fayed
On 28 Jan 2022, at 1:54 PM, hamidreza abroshan
<hamidreza.abroshan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey all,
As I mentioned in my introduction email, I did not study computer science
and do not have a math background.
I am just interested in learning AI and machine learning and want to get
more info about existing tools regarding accessibility.
The other challenge Is math(I think.)
I want to know If a blind dev wants to switch to machine learning and works
in production, What are the most challenges that he should cope with?
How deep is math knowledge required?
How can he analyze the charts and similar visual graphics?
Do you know any accessible resources?
Thanks for your attention!
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hamidreza
