We need both electrical engineers and licensed electricians. If you want to be an electrician, don't sign up for an engineering class taught by a pioneer in the field of electricity and then complain that there is too much theory. Coding bootcamps and vocational schools already exist to meet the needs of those who only want to be practitioners.
Everyone learns by practice, but that applies to math just as well as programming. If you don't practice it, you won't learn it.
> Everyone learns by practice, but that applies to math just as well as programming. If you don't practice it, you won't learn it.
I don't see machine learning as a theoretical field of math, I see machine learning as a set of tools.
To me computers are the tool you use to practice math, and you don't really need to use mathematical notation anymore, unless you really dive into a very abstract subject. ML consists of applied methods. I don't think people want to learn the theory of machine learning, they just want to know the methods that works now, and maybe dive into more complex stuff later.
Everyone learns by practice, but that applies to math just as well as programming. If you don't practice it, you won't learn it.