Machine Learning: College Student vs. Industry Professional? Academic Study vs. Business Impact? - Lazy Programmer

One of the most common complaints I hear from students is: Why do I have to learn all this math? Why isn't there a library to do what I want? Someone recently made this proclamation to me: "You should explain that your courses are for college students, not industry professionals". This made me laugh very hard. In this article, I will refer to students who make such proclamations as "ML wannabes" for lack of a better term, because people who actually do ML generally know better than this.