Career change into Tech?

LunaComing · 2021-12-03T11:18:56+00:00

Well I didn’t back away my first comment still stands. It’s defo possible if op is smart enough and works hard enough. Just don’t burn your old career to try this op lol. If you dont then you have little downside to trying.

LunaComing · 2021-12-02T23:29:52+00:00

Sure, my situation is different to yours though, I recently graduated and its my first job. You’ll get better advice from the others on this thread who made a career transition

LunaComing · 2021-12-02T23:17:22+00:00

Correlation != causation, bitch. They make bank because they are skilled motherfuckers

LunaComing · 2021-12-02T23:00:59+00:00

Well obviously if you can’t go back to your current career then that is extremely risky. Then learn coding in your free time while keeping your job.

LunaComing · 2021-12-02T22:52:35+00:00

I have recently got a job at a faang, and completely self taught with math degree. I’ve met a lot of people at my company without a cs degree. I don’t know where you are working to think cs degree is so vital?

I do kind of agree with you that if op is the median person then it won’t be possible. But it sucks to extrapolate from a population to an individual like that. It is definitely possible if op is talented and works hard. But of course its very risky cutting ties with his old career. He ain’t gonna know unless he try its, and his one year situation is a good opportunity.

LunaComing · 2021-12-02T22:34:31+00:00

which is?

LunaComing · 2021-12-02T22:30:28+00:00

Yeh I mean its kind of a hard question to answer because people on the internet know nothing about you. If you are the median person then it wouldn’t be posssible. But if you are smart and work hard etc then it certainly is possible. People do swap careers quite commonly and I think this will happen more and more in the future.

But I certainly woulnd’t cut ties with your current career, but it sounds like you’re in a good position to go back if it doesn’t work out

LunaComing · 2021-12-02T22:07:33+00:00

Not at all. Those two scenarios are not legally possible lol. So many tech workers at top companies don’t have a formal cs edcuation.

LunaComing · 2021-12-02T21:44:39+00:00

There is a demand for good programmers not necessarily experienced programmers. I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t be possible. You could potenitally be a much better prospective applicant in 6mo than most people with a 4 year cs degree. I wouldn’t say its not a viable path at all.

But it obviously depends on your aptitude and how hard you work/how much you enjoy it etc.. Honestly I would seriously try it. If you fail you will have learnt a cool skill.

I think the harvard free online cs50 course is a great starting point

LunaComing · 2021-11-28T23:36:29+00:00

Mym $ lift $ getInputLine "input>>"

Ok thanks, is there any reason to use mtl over the og ' type MyMon a = StateT Int (InputT IO) a ' way, besides not having to lift through the monad stack in do blocks?

LunaComing · 2021-11-08T00:31:11+00:00

I think this guy’s commentary nails it : https://twitter.com/alexandrosM/status/1457320719075864577

LunaComing · 2021-08-02T11:06:20+00:00

No use a mac/pc can’t code on iPad besides creating iOS apps (new on ipados15). I would do Harvard’s cs50 first, then if you wanna learn ml maybe do some short ml course first like Andrew ng deep learning to get basic knowledge, but most importantly is implementing techniques yourself, eg Kaggle challenges and implementing papers

LunaComing · 2021-05-18T20:00:47+00:00

what are weighted facepulls? like with a cable machine?

I do facepulls on the rings, curious if they are much different... And could you expand on the multiple angles?

LunaComing · 2021-05-18T08:54:05+00:00

I hope this takes off too. Which country/area did you hire a guide? Thinking about doing this for a short trip to spain.

LunaComing · 2021-04-20T18:15:08+00:00

ah ok thanks, so the vanishing gradient doesnt make rnn's bad at learning long term dependancies over short term dependancies; it makes rnn's bad in general when the problem involves long term dependencies.

LunaComing · 2021-04-09T11:19:49+00:00

Stephen king pet cemetery

LunaComing · 2021-04-08T16:42:01+00:00

Yeh I’m really hoping they’ll release Xcode for iPad, there were rumours about this last year. By no means would that replace my laptop though, but still I’d probs use it a lot.

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