Getting into machine learning (ml) can seem like an unachievable task from the outside. After this highly effective introduction, I continued learning on my spare time and almost exactly one year later I did my first ml project at work, which involved using various ml and natural language processing (nlp) techniques to qualify sales leads at Xeneta. This felt like a blessing: getting paid to do so
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