Hi there, 26y/o here. Firstly, as advice for 21 guy, try a lot of things just like you are doing right now, to be honest it is unlikely you have a clear vision of you future career at this young age.

You haven't stated how much deep learning skill you have right now. Or you want to do research or try to be good at implementing stuff. I could be biased but I would suggest unrevealing your motivation and interest more before deciding next step. (Machine learning was really really hyped here in Japan, every student remotely related to CS like mechanical engineering studied deep learning and wanted to work on it. It was honestly over-hyped.)Not saying it is not important.

I can't say anything about Germany since I don't live there. As for Japan, there are several start-ups hiring machine-learning talent, I have seen Germans here as well. But you still need a college degree in most cases.

Good luck, if you like new technology try block-chain as well.

Hi, 30y/o here from germany. My advice would be to take a bachelor/master in computer science. During the bachelor degree you learn basic mathematical principles like linear algebra or discrete maths. This is not only important for implementing ML/DL/AI algorithms, it also helps you to read and understand research papers. Also, most universities in germany offer deep learning courses in their master degrees. So, take the bachelor for basic stuff and specialize in the master.

You could also try to learn more about ML/DL and AI by taking the various online courses out there on the internet, like Andrew Ng Coursera machine learning course. You can also take a look at kaggle.com, there are some ml challenges and code examples.

"create requests" only means something in ms land

using a vm you'd save about 30usd/mo

i could provide a configuration that you can run directly on your machine. drop me a line if you need help, i'm @andreicon on twitter

Be advised that Azure container instances are very expensive to run 24/7. This is not the intended use.

ACI current pricing as of Dec 2017

1 create request x 1GB memory x 1 month (2592000 seconds) x $0.0000125 (GB/sec) = $32

1 create request x 1 CPU Core x 1 month (2592000 seconds) x $0.0000125 (GB/sec) = $32

Total ~ $64 / month.

I think you might be better off running an Ubuntu VM with Docker for your services and then add Azure Databases for MySQL for persistence. That is how I deploy inside azure.

I’d look at this service to see if you can simplify: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/container-instanc...

I’ve run Docker CE on azure vms on individual host, also customized ACS for swarm and they are both a PITA in their own ways.

Either way use terraform or ARM templates to provision where you can. Probably need the ARM templates for the newer container instance service since I doubt terraform is updated yet.