Serious question...where is this happening? I've been a job-hopper all my life. I'm 54, and i've never felt i was being discriminated against. I keep hearing about agism...is it more in SV? I'm in south carolina
I'm in my 4th week of my first class. I'm 54. I have a CS undergrad from 1996. I too caught the ML bug and...this first class is kicking my butt but I'm LOVING the experience. Quality education, very inexpensive, and I can quit any time. I'm doing it for the love of learning and don't need to do it. It takes $100 to apply. Just go for it and try a class. I will warn you without a tech background this particular program will be tough I think. I'm struggling catching up w/ Math
i've been all over the place. khan academy was really good for calculus, but man, the linear algebra lectures are really long, w/ no quizzes to keep you practicing. Have read parts of multiple textbooks. Have watched 3blue1brown's excellent series. I've gotten stuck a lot and keep looking for one resource that's 'got it all', but haven't yet found it.
ha! glad i can put a smile on you young whippersnappers faces :-). Man, your whole life you are called a young man over and over again, and then you stop getting called that, and then you find yourself boasting about how much hair you have, then your wife takes a picture of the top of your head (seriously) to prove to you that you no longer had hair up there ( i swear you never get to see the top of your head )...and then...you still don't give up and you enroll in a masters program!!!! :-)
I'm actually mostly relying on textbooks, and only when i get stuck i'm trying to see if i can get unstuck w/ chatgpt. So far it has worked. I'm only using it b/c i don't have a teacher to task. I do appreciate the warnings you are giving. They are noted for sure.
yeah my approach so far has been: try 3.5 until i am disappointed in the results (hasn't failed me yet), once it does, pay for the upgraded version and see how that goes (totally will to, but 3.5 has really been great so far, and i was blown away when i asked about 1 equation that didn't seem right, and it did realize it's mistake and corrected it...i don't know...just seems more than adequate so far. i realize it's not perfect...i just haven't been let down sufficiently yet).
totally valid question. tbh, i think i need my head examined :-)
the main points here are:
1) i've been pulling things out of DBs and putting them on web pages for 30 years, and along comes these breakthroughs in AI which...my apologies to the naysayers...i'm just blown away by what i'm witnessing, and i just _must_ learn more about how this works.
2) discovering the OMSCS program was an a-ha moment for me: it's prestigious, inexpensive, and I don't have to jump through a lot of hoops (GRE) to enroll. It only cost me < 1 hour and < $100 to apply.
3) There's no pressure on me to complete the program. I can do it one course at a time, and as long as i'm getting something out of it, i will continue. Each class is...$600-$700 or something like that. I fully am ok w/ stopping if it takes too much of a personal / marital toll on me.
4) My imposter syndrome is pretty terrible right now...part of me wants to know if i've 'still got it' (i did really well at U of MD CS).
5) I loved the Rodney Dangerfield movie "Back to School" :-)
EDIT: 6) Also i wouldn't mind converting to the MLE role at some point.
EDIT 2: I blame Paolo Perrotta for writing such an inspiring book (https://www.progml.com/) that ruined my cruise in september (kept rereading the book at the pool) and starting me on this path ;-)
I am 53 and cramming while relearning linear algebra, statistics, and calculus, after a 30 year break from college, in preparation for my first semester at GA Tech's online MS CS program in the fall. I love this! But...before I check it out, I'm going to be surprised if it competes with the already-incredible free help i've gotten from chatgpt-3.5. Recently I asked it the following (where it made a mistake that confused me!), but i followed up w/ a question about it, and it corrected the mistake and re-answered the question, all with no wait at all, and free:
```Given a new 3x3 matrix A having columns (4,2,2), (-1,1,-1), and (6,6,8) and an eigenvalue of 2, help me find a basis for the corresponding eigenspace. Also, given that I is the 3x3 identity matrix, why does the equation (A - 2I)x = 0 having free variables make it obvious that 2 is indeed an eigenvalue.```
I'm still going to check out your site, and I do wish you well, but i'm curious how it will stack up against AI tutors.