[D] Havent worked in 1.5 years, how to prepare to reenter field?

I quit my job as a Deep Learning Researcher at an AI Research Lab at a top hardware manufacturer a year and a half ago due to mental health issues. I’ve spent the time off strictly working on myself, no papers have been read, no code has been written, and I even bought an ATI GPU for gaming (heresy, I know). I’m finally getting to a place where I feel ready to rejoin the field and was wondering about thoughts …

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