How important data structures and algorithms are for DeepLearning?

[muellerzr (Zachary Mueller)]

This thread is similar to yours, and may answer a few questions:

Are you doing online courses in the hopes of learning to code -> getting a job in ML?

Are you a person doing the fast.ai course or learning machine learning in general with the intent of making a living out of it without a domain expertise? By that I mean you are not a radiologist who wants to learn about segmentation, not a musician who wants to leverage RNNs, not an artist who wants to explore GANs. You are a developer or worse yet someone who is learning to code who foresees getting a job in the wonderful field of data science without a related degree? Extra points if you live…