作者：吴恩达

译自：Quora

你想以机器学习为事业是够格的。不管你现在的知识水平是如何，只要努力持续学习，你就可以变成机器学习领域的专家，得到自己的事业。

You are qualified for a career in machine learning! Whatever your current level of knowledge, so long as you keep working hard and keep learning, you can become expert in machine learning and have a great career there.

对任何对这个领域感兴趣的人，先开始学习编程。等你精通编程的基础后，开始学习机器学习课程（Coursera ：机器学习）以及深度学习专业。

To anyone interested in the field, start with learning to program. When you’ve mastered the basics of programming, consider the Machine Learning course (Machine Learning | Coursera), then the Deep Learning specialization (deeplearning.ai).

想更进一步，阅读论文（关注机器学习领袖们的twitter看他们感兴趣的论文）。更进一步，试图去复现这些论文的结果。复现别人的结果是最有效率的精通AI的一种方法，但是往往被忽视了。另外考虑参加一些活动，在线竞赛，学术会议，以及持续阅读书籍，blog和论文。

To go even further, read research papers (follow ML leaders on twitter to see what papers they’re excited about). Even better, try to replicate the results in the research papers. Trying to replicating others’ results is a one of the most effective but under-appreciated ways to get good at AI. Also consider activities like online ML competitions, academic conferences, and keep reading books/blogs/papers.

你现在是否够格做机器学习工作并不重要——我确定你是够格的。更重要的是继续学习，令你自己更够格。

It’s really not a matter of whether you’re qualified do work in machine learning—I’m sure you are! It’s just a matter of getting the learnings to make yourself more and more qualified.