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Can someone with a philosophy background + an NLP master realistically break into ML/AI?

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Hi everyone! My question is basically this: can someone from a philosophy background who has spent the last two years seriously studying math, programming, and ML, and is about to start a master’s in NLP, realistically break into the ML/AI industry? Two years ago, I started learning programming thr…

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    Can someone with a philosophy background + an NLP master realistically break into ML/AI?

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