Think ML Is Too Hard? STEM Students Are Already Halfway There

How I Finally Learned ML (and Why I Shouldn’t Have Waited) I first considered Machine Learning as something challenging yet feasible for me to learn when I attended the American Astronomical Society conference in Florida in 2016 and saw a fellow UIUC undergrad senior present research on Machine Learning in Cosmological Simulations. Partially because he had a reputation for prioritizing research…