Machine Learning: A Crossroads in the Field of Machine Learning

Evan Sparks: My background to get to where I am today was sort of not a straight arrow. He worked for four years during doing various things, and eventually came back to computer science kind of stumbled into machine learning from his PhD at NYU. "I didn't want to be working on research topics that might be really interesting mathematically, but for which I didn't think there was actually real practical motivation," he says. 'The real motivation was just I want to prove something very cool mathematically'