I bought my first house for 650k (Brisbane) just before covid. It’s now worth about 1M. 350k appreciation in ~4 years - bonkers. Glad I got it then since I probably wouldn’t be able to buy it now.
You can still get a place in the 700k area but it’s a lot further out, a lot older and will likely need a lot more work. That said many in our generation inherited the boomer attitude of big house and big backyard - I think expectations need to change, but negative gearing really needs to go.
I made a few courses on Udemy and wrote a book, over a few years net about 20k, super cool! Relative to how much time went into it I probably didn’t actually make that much money but I had a great time and it feels fantastic to make some money on my own initiative
I would not get too concerned about AI entirely replacing you - focus on getting a job and learning how to code without just asking ChatGPT for code and copy pasting it blindly. You should definitely use AI tools, but only to help you learn or to do something you already know faster, not as a crutch.
ChatGPT and friends is definitely a good tool to get snippets, like Stack Overflow, just make sure to understand what you get, just don't copy / paste blindly.
You could try Cypress, it has a component testing solution. It's not for everyone, but the way Cypress works, is it will auto-wait for your assertion to run, so you don't need the whole async/await.
No solution is perfect! I see this as more integration / component testing than a true unit test.
I have majorly had this issue since having kids particularly.
I couldn’t cope, so after a lot of soul searching, I found I just had to de prioritize things. I accepted there are some things I’d love to do but just aren’t as important, high enough ROI, etc. Hard pill to swallow.
I have thought about it - I talked to many of my friends in trades. They are all jealous of how good I have it. Most of them are earning ~70% of what I do, often spend ~2 hours commuting, hard on the body, risk of injuries... maybe you can transition to a orthogonal field in software to change things up?
I found Song of the Cell a bit underwhelming. The Gene really was fantastic - I think he ran out of steam a bit with Song of the Cell. The majority of the cell related history is also contained in The Gene.
Sure thing. I looked a few local (in my city, Brisbane, Australia, within ~1.5h of commute). I want to do a combination of dry and wet labs, so I need to be able to attend in person. I cannot relocate (have family).
I reached out to a few people in my network who did related study at the universities. In general, they all had good things to say. I ended up going with the one I thought had the best reputation both locally and nation-wide, which is UQ. Link: https://study.uq.edu.au/study-options/programs/master-bioinf...
I have been looking to do something similar for the last few years. I tried grabbing a few textbooks and learning a bit, but I found it difficult to really make any progress.
I ended up enrolling in a part time Masters of Bioinformatics. I got an exemption from the basic software courses, since I already do a lot of coding in my day job. The remaining courses are split between:
- molecular biology theory (obviously need a good foundation here)
- wet lab
- statistics
- bioinformatics (which is learning the different tools, what they do, how to build a pipeline, which is just a lot of bash and python glue) and then how to interpret the results
I just started so I haven't done the web labs yet, but I am learning a lot with my current courses which molecular biology and bioinformatics. Having classes, assessment, and immersed in an environment with other people learning, along with professors to answer questions, is really good.
Not sure if this is an option for you. I tried to do this in my free time with books, YouTube, etc, but nothing really clicked.
Is it better at coding that GPT4? I'm using ChatGPT (v4), just the UI, not the API, and it works really well for me. Is Claude a big step up (hard to imagine, but willing to be convinced).
I definitely agree anyone not using LLMs for coding is missing out.
How are people using GPT4 via the API? I signed up and loaded some money, but I still can’t use GPT for by the API. Only 3.5 turbo.
I still find ChatGPT 4 well worth the money. The coding is way better than 3.5. I wonder what their system prompt is, I don’t get as good results from the API (maybe I am doing it wrong).
https://pnpm.io/settings#minimumreleaseage