Everything you need to become a self-taught Machine Learning Engineer

All of these books are 400–500 pages long, with the first two being about statistical ML and the last two being about deep learning. Grab these books and find your people. Look for places that other curious programmers are spending time. For me, that was Bradfield. The kind of person who spends 10–20 hours/week learning is exactly the kind of person I wanted to study with.