How to break the “need experience to get experience” cycle

This is something I’ve wondered as I’ve been trying to make the shift from data science to more ML/DL related roles. My background being a MS in Statistics, it qualifies me for a lot of data scientist jobs. I recently posted here and a lot of folks mentioned alternatives, like applied scientist roles, or research scientist roles. A lot of these roles in the industry are focused on deep learning, always mentioning how they want people from stats/cs/math, but have …

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