<ul><li>In 2018, the author focused on understanding how machine learning algorithms and models function at a detailed level.</li><li>It is highlighted that even in machine learning engineer (MLE) interviews, questions about the functioning of specific algorithms like Xgboost are not commonly asked.</li><li>Data scientists are not expected to have an in-depth understanding of how machine learning models work. Their focus is on solving customer problems using data.</li><li>For those aiming to build production ML systems, the recommendation is to focus on studying data structures & algorithms and vanilla system design.</li></ul>

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