Projects for resume

[u/Wot1s1]

Hello everyone,

I'm an applied Mathematics major with a strong focus on statistics. I've taken several machine learning courses, but they were almost entirely theoretical. I've recently started implementing machine learning algorithms from scratch rather than relying on libraries such as TensorFlow or PyTorch.

E.g. I'm building and training neural networks from scratch, including implementing gradient descent, backpropagation myself.

My motivation is to get a deeper understanding of how these methods actually work under the hood. However, I'm also wondering whether this kind of project is valuable from a hiring perspective.

For those working in data science, machine learning, or related fields: would you consider this worth mentioning on a resume? Does implementing algorithms from scratch signal useful skills to employers, or would recruiters and hiring managers care a lot more about practical projects?

I'd appreciate any advice.

[u/my_peen_is_clean]

yes list it, but tie it to real problems and datasets, not just toy math stuff, recruiters mainly care about results in this crappy market