I think some of the downvotes are from the very biased phrasing of the question. You’ve managed to phrase it in such a way that Blockchain bros and their detractors can both respond strongly in the same direction.
I suspect a more neural phrasing would not illicit such widespread dislike.
Honestly? I have no idea what things you can contribute to since I don’t know your skillset, interests, background, etc.
Do not underestimate how much you will be disadvantaged by not having relevant degrees and published papers, but if you can start closing tickets in the Tensorflow repository then more power to you.
I’m not sure there are “entry level” NLP jobs that aren’t for sketchy startups without a future. I can’t imagine using openai APIs is a stable career as much as knowing how to make them.
If you were a senior programmer, there are roles that don’t need so much math – DevOps, reliability engineering, cloud deployment, and systems administration are some keywords you can look up on LinkedIn. These are quite broad and would be available at basically any company with a website or app.
Personally, I got an undegrad degree in applied mathematics and only kept going to school because the roles I wanted (ML development) required it. Your background in linguistics could certainly be useful for a team in which other people are the coding and math experts, but I do not come across those roles on LinkedIn very often outside of academia, which, unfortunately, require the degree.
Its really good to hear that the Andrew Ng class is comprehensible to you, so I think you’re on the right track either way.
In lieu of a degree, the only other thing I can suggest is building a portfolio online (GitHub, probably) and maybe contributing to an open source project. It will be very hard to find roles that don’t require you to know git and contribute to complex software projects, whether or not you have a degree.
It looks like he was summoning a person to comment.
Yeah. the CUNY one is definitely meant for career switching, but the Georgia tech one will probably expect you to know the math fields listed above as it is fairly competitive. Though, I know someone with an Economics bachelors who did quite well in the CUNY program. They even offer an introductory course for people with 0 programming experience. I really do think it would a good fit, given your background. Link here. A head’s up though-- graduate degrees will require more independent work than undergraduate did. Like, course meetings were less lectures explaining new content and more answering specific questions after you learn the content on your own. I was expected to have completed the homework before the topic was covered in class (though it wasn’t graded for correctness). I would say that’s the categorical difference with advanced degrees.
I’d spend some time on Khan Academy to brush up/catch up on the basic math concepts. That’s where I learned those topics.
I know you asked for some kind of personal interaction, but that content is the gold standard for math education. You can always ping me if you have specific questions and I’ll do my best to respond.
I work in the field. Generally, jobs that include AI development generally require advanced degrees and the vast majority require a PhD with peer reviewed publications in major conferences. You will be fighting an uphill battle if you don’t have an advanced degree in mathematics or computer science. You also need to know calculus, linear algebra and statistics to understand how modern machine learning models work.
In short, while online courses can be perfectly effective, unless they’re through an accredited higher education institution, I don’t think it will help you compete with other applicants who have 8+ years of schooling and published papers.
That being said, Georgia Tech and the City University of New York both offer master’s degrees in data science via remote master’s programs where the courses happen after work hours and are meant to be completed while working full-time.
I think this scene nails it.
it’s a mobile application first, but desktop options are available. Good luck!
Signal is super user friendly. I got my family to switch over years ago and even my mom can manage it. Though, it’s probably a tough sell for a kite flying group more generally. I do think it’s probably a lower barrier than making a new social media account on some fediverse alternative, but hard to explain the advantages to people who don’t care about privacy from Zuck.
I use signal (messenger app) groups, but my hobbies are often tech related, so that community is already there.
I’ve always found the best people at foodnotbombs, which has local chapters in most cities. Start there.
a variety of independent news sources.
Wikipedia is notoriously susceptible to bias when it comes to history and politics and has a noted left center bias (according to researchers at Harvard, not my words).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideological_bias_on_Wikipedia
I’m not saying it’s a terrible sources but it definitely should not be the last stop and anything controversial (or the lack thereof) isn’t a meaningful indicator of whether or not something is actually true. Note the numerous examples of historical revisionism in the linked article.
You can install Plex on your mobile device and toggle the “share media from this device” setting. Otherwise, a steam deck would have everything an RPI has plus a GPU and a touch screen. Since there are two radios (2 and 5Ghz) on the device, you should be able to set it up as a bridge device, but I’ve not tried this personally.
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and what is “what they asked for”
I’m definitely not confused. Perhaps we have irreconcilable philosophical differences, but I’m certainly not confused by percentages.
Personally, I would a 30% voter turnout as a damning indictment of the system, particularly when Switzerland was one of the last countries in Europe to legalize women’s right to vote and the right to gay marriage.
For most of the US’s history, most people were simply not allowed to participate in that system and twice this century the winner lost the popular vote. How is it do hard to believe that someone would feel legitimately disenfranchised and frustrated by that system?
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This is so common in writing that is has its own name.
Yes. The person speaking probably wants the legs, torsos, etc of the crew there as well.
Why do they say the shorter thing? Because it means exactly the same thing to anyone who has taken high school level English classes and uses fewer words.
“Russia” is not an entity that has an ability to do things and readers understand that.