How do people go from DS analytics to modeling & ML/DL roles?

Considering that the jobs that involve ML/DL often require industry experience with it, and even if you have experience in DS analytics that doesn’t really count as you don’t get experience in the tech stack needed for ML/DL (eg Pytorch). Kaggle projects also I have heard do not really count

It almost seems like “your track” is determined by the job you get after grad school. If you get something in DS analytics it seems impossible to then transition to …

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