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Michael B. Jordan, 39, won the Oscar for best actor for his performance in “Sinners.” He says one simple habit helped him get into character.”I write a lot of journals for my characters, like backstories. So I try to go from, like, the earliest memory that I can conjure up…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Saurabh Khandelwal, a 28-year-old machine learning engineer at Meta, based in Bellevue, Washington. The following has been edited for length and clarity.There are so many different paths within the world of AI and machine learning.For people getting into the field, it’s…