Chief Scientist At 1-Page Reveals How To Get Started In Machine Learning

This depends a lot on the background of the software engineer. And it depends on which part of machine learning you want to master. So, for the sake of concreteness, let's assume that we're talking about a junior engineer who has 4 years of university and a year of two in industry. And let's assume that this is someone who wants to work on computational advertising, natural language processing, image analysis, social networks, search and ranking. Let's start with the requirements for doing machine learning (disclaimer to my academic colleagues - this list is very incomplete, apologies in advance if your papers aren't included).