#python skillset

[recurring-polynya]

i just want a lil script that can scrape a spotify playlist and stick all the lyrics into a database that i can do keyword searches on when i need to come up with a title for my fanfic

[bl4ckbox]

I have an idea for a website tool I really really want to make but I feel like I am solidly on the level of "just enough to be dangerous" where I could do it with a lot of stackexchange help but don't even know the basics of like..... how to sanitize inputs or make sure it's not going to fall apart or be immediately compromised the second it goes online....

[sillimancer]

my data analytics course has got me feeling pretty dang smart

or I guess more pleased with myself at how much of this stuff I already know

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[aimlessarchery]

It is hardly the time for merriment or easily collectable gifts, but the difficulty does not dissuade one from trying all the same. Even if it is not what she might have hoped, she still wishes to try.

"Python!" It takes some time to find him, and even more to catch up. The staff she has found is not in the best shape, but it serves its double purpose as healing tool and cane well enough without raising more suspicion than she would like.

It has been a time since last she saw him. She has no idea where he might have been in the supposed...the supposed moon that had passed. It was a relief to see him again, even if she did not expect that sentiment to be returned.

"It is almost impressive how quickly they managed to reestablish the habit of alerting us to people's birthday while the monastery is still in ruins." Though she smiles, there's a hint of bitterness to it. She does not share it with him.

She pulls out a bundle from a bag at her side and holds it out to him. "Here. My au- my father's fellow retainer is an archer, so I picked up some lessons. You are likely low on supplies, correct?" She does not know the name or specifics of the materials she had gathered, only that she recognizes them from watching Setsuna and Kiragi maintain their bows.

Once handed off, she gives a slight bow of her head. "Happy birthday. I do wish it was under better circumstances."

Python blinks for a moment, taking in the girl, the staff in her grasp, the bundle of supplies offered to his. She's a healer then, like her father. And her father is a retainer with comrades who have the same skillset as Python does. Mitama continues to give him new information about his strange friend simply by being herself. He takes the offered gift, waits a beat, and then slumps forward with enough suddenness to pull at his healing shoulder. It adds an extra sincerity to the tight wince he already planned on pulling his face into. "Putting me to work? Ugh, and here I thought I'd found a slacker in arms when it's time for cleanup duty…" When he lifts his head, he gives her a half-smile. "Eh, the circumstances are a tiiiiny bit better with every friendly face I see alive and well. So thanks for that, Mitama."

[egelantier]

rimworld, the addiction

i promised a post about rimworld somewhere an entirety away, and even if i did, by now i was playing it exclusively, a bit every day, for something like half a year, so i think it deserves some kind of an entry in my journal either way.

preface: usually when i describe games here, i put in some kind of a note how this or that game is very casual user friendly (because i am a casual user), and you can play it if you never played stuff, and so on. rimworld is not quite that game. it’s very much a gamer’s game, in a sense that its UI looks like an unholy cross of “hello, world!” programming and an excel spreadsheet, it’s incredibly counterintuitive, it takes from ten to twenty minutes to load on the average (and the loading screen looks like it crashed meantime), and it wants you to suffer. if you play any amount of time, you’re going to inevitably end up with hundred to two hundred mods, and to make the game move with all those mods you’ll have to follow the easily-accessible tutorials with advice like “install this handy Python program” and “Select "BC7 Texconv compressor" on the middle bottom.” and the complexity of the game’s inner system makes its own tutorial - well - it will tell you that you colony needs a freezer for food to outlive the winter, but you will have to intuit by yourself that to make this freezer you’ll have to build a double-walled room of just the right side, put in two air conditioner users set one degree celsius apart from each other to minimize the power load, don’t forget to build double-door airlocks to account for the temperature spikes when the door opens and adjust it by the variety in your biome’s climate. and don’t even get me started on killboxes! this is to say, you’re going to be watching youtube and reading guides. a lot.

(OKAY it’s not THAT bad and you mostly need to be able to know where the mod folder is and how to follow detailed instructions. but by the standards by today’s, increasingly mobile and under-the-hood gaming, it’s practically NASA. even minecraft is more user-friendly in comparison.)

and yet like i said: hordes of rabid fans, literally months of addictive playing, thousands of mods, active scene. why? and what the hell is it? let’s see.

rimworld as a setting is a procedurally generated world in a galaxy far, far away (that takes its setting inspiration from firefly, star wars, a bit of dune, and a general space opera vibe), with diverse climate biomes (from ice sheets to arid deserts, from temperate forests to tropical swamps), inhabited by a variety of friendly and unfriendly flora and fauna and a multitude of friendly and very unfriendly tribes, factions, empire remnants and such. they send each other (and you) raids and trade caravans, and overall just try to survive.

“you" is an unspecified entity (some speculate that you might be an orbital AI, but it doesn’t quite matter) in charge of a group of your “pawns,“ aka colonists - little blobby humanoid representations of either baseline or gene-modified humans that, in a variety of scenarios, find themselves on the unhospitable surface of rimworld either literally butt-naked or with a scant handful of resources, and have to survive and build their way up from a hovel and a campfire to the ultratech spacefaring colony. pawns have their own backstories, traits, needs and health condition; they form relationships, meet their relatives, get together, make up, break up, marry, divorce, make children, mourn their lost people, keep pets, suffer from mental breaks and so on. you can give them direct orders in some occasions, like the battle, but for most of the time you’re going to give them priorities based on their skillset, and watch them do their things on their own, which is alternately fun, touching and infuriating.

your colony’s experience in rimworld is governed by one of the (canonically) three “storytellers,” aka AIs, who’re in charge of sending you various events - enemy raids, wanderers joining in, solar eclipses, manhunting packs of rabid enemies, crop blights, weather anomalies and so on. each storyteller has several levels of intensity, from ‘peaceful’ (it’ll keep weather events and random angry animal attacks, but cut out everything related to hostile pawns, like raiders) to ‘death is inevitable,’ and also has their own style: phoebe just wants you to have a good time, cassandra provides a linear progression of difficulty and alternates ‘bad’ and ‘good’ challenges, and randy just doesn’t give a fuck and WILL get your colony attacked by mechanoids, manhunting yorkshire terriers and pig-human raiders on the same day your favorite melee fighter died and all the electricity cut out, just for the hell of it.

the intended (loosely) gameplay is to randomise your colonists, pick up a storyteller on a medium difficulty, set the game to ‘only save on exit, permadeath’ setting and let your colony tell its own history by surviving as much as it can, mourning its losses and celebrating its wins, and eventually succumbing to the entrophy (or, less likely, achieving one of the win conditions - building a spaceship and getting off the planet, decoding an ancienty mystery to join up with a techmegabrain, hitching a ride with the imperial ship after gladhanding the emperor and his escort in style for a set amount of days, etc.). but the beauty of rimworld is that between the granular difficulty settings and mods you’re able - and welcome - to finetune your experience to the exact specific level of challenge and/or chill you want. don’t care for the fighting at all and just want to build your colony and select the right shade of the carpets? put it on peaceful. don’t mind raiders but fuck those guys who airpod in the middle of your base or breach your walls? the turtle mod is your friend. raiders are fine, but you want to dig your way into the mountain without being afraid of giant insect infestations? turn those assholes off. want to min-max your experience and fight literal horders of enemies every ten minutes? either max out the difficulty or install one of the thousand of mods like combat extended or whatever, that add difficulties and mechanics.

and meanwhile the game - that looks deceptively simple on the outside, build this, harvest this - is stuffed with overcomplicated intersection of various systems creating weird outcomes. it’s a bit minecraft and a bit dwarf fortress and a bit sims and emergent gateways all the way. your little pawns follow the tenets of their ideoligions, get upset over seeing corpses or eating mushrooms, go into berserk rages after eating without a table one too many times, make friends, celebrate the defeat of their rivals and get attached to random squirrels. they can interact with other inhabitants of rimworlds by trading and diplomacy, or indulge in raiding, piracy, enslavement, ritualized murder, forced conversions, cannibalism or non-consensual organ and gene harvesting. a starved pawn on a frozen ice will eat somebody’s body and feel bad about it… unless they come from a society of cannibals, in which case it would be fine and dandy, but they might be upset about eating their human meat in an untidy room, you know? some precepts require the colonists to worship blindness; some of them make people hate the sight of the sun, and some require worshipping every tree and never kill an animal. it’s all, to put it simply, complicated.

and then, of course, mods. the game is created to be as mod-friendly as possible, and so there are literal thousands of them, and they reflect the multifaceted insanity of the world in the most hilarious ways. the most-downloaded mod overall is called wall lights and allows you, well, to put lamps on the wall. the other popular one is called “war crimes,” and you can probably infer its purpose from the title. there are mods that prettify, fully change or customise the chunky UI; mods that clean up or straight up rewrite the graphics; mods that make your little blobby guys look anime and sexy (it’s hilarious); mods that turn rimworld into warhammer 40k, or star wars, or mass effect, or lord of the rim, or a lovecraftian nightmare, or some combination thereof. my favorite of the moment is the collection centered around medieval overhaul, a clever and beautiful bundle that turns the gritty space opera into the fully realized medieval town builder - with smithies and bakeries and castle walls and knight plumages. it takes some time to cobble together a collection that works (and then make sure it all hangs together, and learn to use rimsql, and figure out what the hell defs are and why your log is giving you errors, and change the order of mods a thousand times, and make sure you did not accidentally turn your squirrels into unstoppable death machines while trying to add some prettier capes to your tailor bill), but on practice it means that pretty much every person playing will have their own unique copy of the game, vastly different from what somebody next to them is playing.

like i said above, the intended gameplay is the triumph and misery of playing through as is; but i’m having one of the shittiest years of my entire life, and so almost every day i would load it up and watch the progress of my little medieval towns from one lost person in the wood trying to figure out how to spin flax into thread into little blooming towns, with nothing to distract me. there’s something of bird-watching or flower-pressing to this experience: you set up the conditions and you set up your priorities (or install ‘free will’ and then tear your hair out over your pawns avoiding research and cleaning their floor while winter is looming ahead and they need to figure out how to make parkas) and then you watch how it all unfolds, and you can sprinkle in a bit of a challenge, or you can just watch them grow and mix up and change and misbehave and be silly and transform, and transform, and transform. it more or less saved my sanity. it’s a very specific kind of experience - i built a monastery with a winery and an apothecary’s dark corner in one map, and a small mountain hideaway for a runaway princess in another, and a rough-and-tumble tundra city in third, and so on - and i saw people building unstoppable war machines instead, or trying to survive specific unfair scenarios, or roleplaying, or multiplayering, or minmaxing with spreadsheets and calculators, or all of the above - and god, is it good. is it so goddamn good.

so! whether you want to play it or have ran away screaming by this time, i hope you enjoyed this silly writeup. and if you do want to start playing, don’t hesitate to ask me stuff! or like share my list of mods and so on.

[excludedmiddle]

hey congrats on reaching CM (? wanted to find the post where you mention that to confirm but tumblr search misbehaves). was curious as to how many problems you've solved on cf? I primarily picked it up cause ik it helped friends with interview stuff but I'm 2 months in stuck at ~1200 so wondering if I should be doing things differently. on one hand most problems <1400 are greedy or math so I worry an actual interview will be more "algorithmic" and I'll be unprepared (maybe leetcode is better in this regard?). on the other hand it's soo much easier to fantasise about being good at cp than actually practicing. so. anyway wondering if you had any advice on this? CM in one year does not sound like the journey of your average cf-er. congrats again. cheers!

Thank you!

(full disclosure: I've kind of fallen off with competitive programming - I haven't competed on codechef since January and codeforces/leetcode since April)

My solving totals, ratings, and number of contests are:

Leetcode: 824 problems, 2571 rating, 41 contests

Codeforces: 69 problems, 2000 rating, 14 contests

Codechef: 32 problems, 2046 rating, 4 contests

If you're looking for interview prep I would skip codeforces. Leetcode problems are closer to what you'll get in interviews, and their contests are much less of a time commitment. I also code in Rust on CF/CC and Python on Leetcode, and I much prefer to take interviews in Python.

If you snoop around a bit on reddit and the leetcode forums, you can often find lists of problems people have seen at a specific company's interviews to get a flavor of what you're up against. I really recommend this - the problem I struggled with the most in getting my current job was on one such list for my company and I wish I'd gone through the list. This was before I got really good, though.

I think my rapid growth was fueled by three things:

I did math competitions all the way through college that have a similar skillset

My college classes taught a lot of competitive programming concepts (I learned what a SegTree was in class!)

I had a period of 5 months between graduating and starting my job where I was unemployed and highly motivated, and I did a ton of grinding during that period. Most of my leetcode solves are from that time

If you're looking to improve but don't have a ton of time to burn, here's the regimen I recommended to another asker:

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[semperintrepida]

Hmm, I’m thinking you might be a programmer of some sort. A team lead maybe? Perhaps u have scrummed at least once. Just a wild guess with no context😌

Is it that obvious??? 😅

Having ascended to the disreputable ranks of Middle Management, I no longer write much code in my day-to-day. But I've been known to flash some python skills (ooh la la!) for hobby projects, like using sentiment analysis to tell me if the unread comments sitting in my AO3 inbox are mean or not...

I refuse to subject my engineering team to a scrum meeting every damn morning. Instead, we have a little robot that creates a daily Teams thread where everyone posts their scrum updates asynchronously. 😏

[ask game: what do you think my hobby, skillset or knowledge or any other details of me based off my writing?]

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[primepast]

task   zero  + character introduction.

⌕   . ˚   ⅋.   「   pedro pascal. forty six. cis man. he/him.  」 luca reyes  was recruited as a  captain’s crew  for the libertalia  twenty six years ago  and was given the codename:  dionysus  for their  carefree  but  spiteful  behavior, typical for  the sagittarius. while preparing for a heist they listen to  back in black  by  acdc  and don’t dare to leave without their most trusted item:  engraved pocket knife.

part one: statistics.

basic information:

full name: josé lucas reyes espinoza luca reyes.

nickname(s): lu, whatever insult is being thrown his way.

age: 46.

date of birth: december 2nd, 1976.

place of birth: santiago, chile.

nationality: chilean american.

gender: cis man.

pronouns: he / him.

orientation:  bisexual.

language(s) spoken: fluent in english, spanish & portuguese, familiar with russian, asl, & french.

accent: used to have a slight new yorker accent, not so much anymore.

family ties:

mother: maría espinoza, deceased.

father: juan reyes herrera, deceased.

siblings: has five siblings, three younger and two older.

spouse / partner: widower, currently single.

children: has a daughter named mia, in her mid twenties.

pets: has a ball python snake named ralph.

occupational information:

codename: dionysus.

meaning behind codename: dionysus, the greek god of wine ( also bestower of ecstasy / god of the drama ... fittingly enough ).

position: captain's crew.

skillset: scoped firearms / long range weapons / quick thinking under pressure / expert hand eye coordination / lockpicking / anything that allows him to stay still.

weapon of choice:  prefers a sniper rifle, currently carries a m1903 springfield.

physical appearance:

face claim: pedro pascal.

hair color:  dark brown.

eye color: dark brown.

height: 5'11"

weight: 165 lbs.

build: athletic.

tattoos: has a small clown fish tattoo on his left shoulder for his daughter.

piercings: none.

clothing style: whatever's still in his closet from the past decade, mostly old shirts with the occasional hole or stain and jeans. sometimes wears a leather jacket he found at a thrift store ... he doesn't really have a "style" just if it fits and isn't too fancy... comfortable dad attire.

distinguishing characteristics: salt & pepper hair, dimpled smile, square jawline.

personality:

mbti: estp.

element:  fire.

western zodiac: sagittarius.

chinese zodiac: dragon.

positive traits: carefree, charming, adaptable, perceptive, bold.

negative traits: spiteful, impatient, impulsive, defiant, insensitive.

hobbies: drinking, fishing, woodworking, reading, doing nothing.

character inspiration:  seth gecko ( fdtd ), the ten seconds of screentime dionysus gets in the pj movies, ron swanson ( parks & rec, this is strictly only vibes ), jim hopper ( stranger things but not the cop part acab ).

part two: questionnaire. 

001.  the professor provides every member of libertalia a unique codename that reflects their personality. each codename is derived from various forms of mythology, folklore, or literature. why do you think the professor chose that name for you? do you agree or disagree with his decision? 

the professor has always been an idol of luca's and joining within libertalia's first year is something he looooves to brag about. he was codenamed dionysus and though a bit stumped at first, he realized that the professor must have known about his sticky fingers expensive alcohol bottle collection ... or maybe he just has a sense of humor and was already well aware of luca's drinking problem. there's much more to the name than luca understands - a man of intense passion, both known for his excitable attitude and anger. either way, luca has never really cared to know, especially since he likes to imagine the professor does have a sense of humor... and for that reason, he loves the decision.

002.  gaining an invitation into libertalia isn’t an easy feat. what do you think made you special enough to get handpicked by the professor? 

luca usually chalks it up to being young and lucky enough to be on libertalia's radar early on. he hadn't planned much at the beginning and had been reckless on his heists, going into hiding after a bank robbery went wrong and he was separated from his partners. for whatever reason, he was given a second chance when it seemed like his life was over and for that, he'll always be grateful.

003.  the captain’s crew is the highest position at libertalia. do you desire to graduate to this level? if you’re already a member of the captain’s crew what motivated you to change your position? 

as a current captain's crew member, the position has been on his mind since he learned it was a possibility. he has no desire to be in a true position of leadership like the professor, but luca owes everything to libertalia and his allegiance has only strengthened over the twenty plus years with the group. he used to love joining on adventures but as he's gotten older and faced injury after injury, his focus began to shift to the potential of heist planning - whatever he needed to do to remain useful to the organization. he fears that his intelligence isn't as good as his physical skills but is doing his best to make sure no one notices.

004.  although many members of libertalia don’t know each other’s personal lives, it’s rumored that many members came from suspicious backgrounds. who were you before joining and what was your life like prior?

joining libertalia was an impulsive decision, one made without the knowledge of his wife. she was always in the dark about his thievery and criminal background, some he even completed while they were married. they'd known each other since high school and she only discovered his extracurriculars once he was already in libertalia. luca had grown up having to make his own way in the world and refused to change for anyone, but it cost him the opportunity of having the family he'd always wanted. libertalia was his purpose after that and he's refuses to think about the past anymore.

005.  what was your primary motivation for joining libertalia? was it for the riches or for the thrill of adventure? or is there something else motivating you to continue working for the group? what do you hope to achieve? 

the primary motivation had always been to see what the world had to offer. a simple curiosity of what else there could be and a desire to scratch an itch of thievery. he hadn't expected much, truthfully, as far as profits go - but once the money started showing on paper, that helped too. now that he's lost the other side of the life he had, libertalia has essentially become everything to him and he hopes to help it flourish with the years he has left. he loves the idea of passing on all the wisdom and experience he's learned, a main reason he's apart of the captain's crew.

006.  how would the other members describe you? would you consider yourself to be a team-player or do you prefer to work independently? 

never serious, always joking, mouth never not open. not usually seen without a drink in his hand. he's got a contagious laugh and that can either soften the view some people have toward luca or infuriate them. always loves to be the life of the party and at every single funeral, he's made the "i put the fun in funeral" joke to someone. doesn't know how to read a room very well but he's got the best of intentions. works well with others... but usually gives them a headache at some point.

007.  libertalia is anonymous, therefore necessitates secrecy outside of the group. how do you balance your personal life outside of this, granted you have one? is there a clear separation between libertalia and your personal life? 

luca used to be able to balance everything perfectly within the first few years of libertalia - after his wife discovered he'd been lying about a business trip and knew he couldn't lie to her anymore, it went downhill from there. after a messy separation, luca's personal life became more or less existent. his thirties were spent jumping from mission to mission, becoming almost obsessed with his work until a bad back injury made him replan his future. now he's just focused on remaining valuable.

008.  henry avery’s treasure has been lost since 1695. even with the brightest minds on the case, all leads to find the treasure haven’t turned up. avery’s treasure is the professor’s white whale and after several years of searching, many believe the treasure ceases to exist. do you believe the treasure exists? 

luca is certainly skeptical but leans toward hopeful.

009.  do you trust the professor? do you trust the libertalia? 

yes and yes - with his life.

[gu-ro]

I think there are valid uses and stupid uses. If I'm approaching a new problem I generally will mix chat gpt with good old fasioned Google.

But it doesn't come without being able to approach it with skepticism.

For example I used chatgpt while working on a new tech project.

It was useful in so much as it helped scaffold some examples of lots of interoperable parts in a way that the documentation for those parts didn't really cover, and i could find maybe one outdated forum post about.

What chatgpt DIDNT do, was make security considerations in the code it gave me. It didn't obfuscate sensitive data as secrets in a pipeline, it didnt check that the image it used in the docker file wasn't vulnerable to any know issues, and it didnt think about the python pickle library being vulnerable to deserialization.

That came from my own knowledge and skillset.

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Weekend Machine Learning Courses in Chennai for Working Professionals

In today's data-driven world, machine learning (ML) has become a must-have skill across industries—from IT and finance to healthcare and marketing. For working professionals who are already in demanding 9-to-6 jobs, finding time to upgrade their skillset can be challenging. Fortunately, several institutes now offer weekend machine learning courses in Chennai, specifically designed to fit into your busy schedule without compromising on quality.

This blog will guide you through the best weekend ML courses in Chennai, their benefits, what to expect, and how to choose the right one based on your career goals.

Why Learn Machine Learning in Chennai?

Chennai is quickly gaining momentum as a tech and analytics hub, with companies increasingly adopting machine learning to enhance efficiency, automate operations, and make intelligent business decisions.

Benefits of Learning ML in Chennai:

Access to top-rated training institutes

Affordable course fees compared to metros like Bangalore

Proximity to IT parks and MNCs looking to hire ML talent

A growing network of data science and AI professionals

Why Weekend Machine Learning Courses?

For working professionals, time is a premium. Weekend courses offer:

Flexibility to learn outside of work hours

Live sessions that don’t interfere with weekday commitments

Faster completion with intensive weekend classes

Immediate application of learned skills at work

What to Expect from a Weekend ML Course

Before choosing a course, make sure it includes:

Fundamentals: Python, statistics, linear algebra

Core ML Concepts: Supervised/unsupervised learning, regression, classification

Advanced Tools: TensorFlow, scikit-learn, Keras, NLP, Deep Learning

Hands-On Projects: Real datasets and case studies

Certification: Recognized credentials from industry bodies or institutions

Career Support: Resume building, mock interviews, placement assistance

Boston Institute of Analytics (BIA) – Chennai

Course Fee: ₹55,000 – ₹70,000 Mode: Classroom + Online Hybrid Duration: 12–16 weekends (3–4 months)

Why BIA? Boston Institute of Analytics offers one of the most comprehensive and globally recognized ML courses in Chennai, with weekend-only batch options specifically designed for working professionals. The curriculum is curated by international experts and includes hands-on projects using real datasets.

Key Highlights:

Industry-oriented curriculum with AI integration

Global certification accepted across 30+ countries

Capstone project & live mentorship from industry professionals

Strong placement assistance and alumni network

Best For: Working professionals looking to make a career switch or get promoted within AI/ML roles

How to Choose the Right Weekend Machine Learning Course

Here are some practical tips to help you decide:

✅ Check for Industry Projects

Go for courses that offer real-time projects, not just theoretical content.

✅ Validate Trainer Credentials

Experienced faculty with AI/ML industry background add immense value.

✅ Look for Career Support

Resume workshops, mock interviews, and placement referrals are a must.

✅ Flexibility & Format

Choose live or recorded weekend sessions based on your schedule.

✅ Institute Credibility

Review ratings on Google, LinkedIn, and Quora. Speak with alumni if possible.

Career Opportunities After a Weekend ML Course in Chennai

Even if you're learning part-time, the career outcomes are full-time impressive. With the right course, you can apply for roles like:

Machine Learning Engineer

Data Analyst / Data Scientist

AI Engineer / Research Assistant

Business Intelligence Analyst

NLP or Computer Vision Specialist

Average Entry Salary in Chennai:

₹6 – ₹10 LPA for ML Engineers

₹4 – ₹8 LPA for Data Analysts (with ML exposure)

Top recruiters include Zoho, Freshworks, Cognizant, TCS, Accenture, and Amazon.

Final Thoughts

For working professionals in Chennai looking to upskill in machine learning, weekend courses offer the ideal balance between flexibility and effectiveness. From globally certified programs at Boston Institute of Analytics to regionally-tailored learning, there’s something for every learning style and budget.

If you're serious about advancing your tech career, now is the time to invest your weekends in a course that will unlock exciting career opportunities, higher pay, and long-term growth in the world of AI and machine learning.