[D] John Carmack's 1-week experience learning neural networks from scratch • r/MachineLearning

I wrote a NN in C 98. I never really considered myself good enough to apply for a machine learning job and have been focusing on Django and Android professionally, but have secretly wanted to break into machine learning. Seeing this kinda got me excited again tho. What does one typically need to break into a machine learning job? I've compiled and played with Tensor Flow and Caffe too, but haven't really gotten any solid work like experience with them nor applied them to anything useful.