I attended a four part Docker 101 Training course at Virginia Tech. I plan to have regular updates in the coming months. I’ve only just started it.Īnyway, thanks for reading. I hear that this is a great foundational course. Even if I fail, it looks like a great way to get my hands dirty and learn.įinally, I plan to take the famous Coursera course with Andrew Ng.
I hope to at least try a Kaggle competition. I’ve already subscribed to a year of datacamp, so I’m making my way through as many of those courses as I can.
This will cost me $999 for two terms, so basically $2k. They stress that the course will help build my portfolio, which I’m sure will be useful once I start applying for jobs.
I chose Udacity because I do much better when there’s a structure to my learning. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to complete the course in less time, but I’m a mom to two young kids. The time commitment is 2 three-month terms for about 10 hours a week. I just enrolled in the Udacity Machine Learning Nanodegree, with a start date of April 16, 2019. Looking back at my career, I was happiest when I was working on machine learning problems. However, I was doing primarily web development in Ruby on Rails with bits of python thrown in, and it wasn’t fulfilling. I timidly took roles at universities in hopes of maintaining a good work-life balance. When I decided to go back to work again after my career break, I had to relearn how to work with the constraints of having a young family. I’m confident that someone like me should be able to do this. Artificial intelligence has become so accessible these days that folks with less experience have already found their place. All of my experience is dated and very specific. While I know how to solve problems in general, I don’t have the confidence yet to find a job. When I worked at IBM, I interacted daily with proprietary code and tools. I paused my career to start a family right around when the state of the art for these sorts of systems shifted from HMM-based models to neural networks. You’d think this would be easy for me, right? Don’t I know what I need already? I worked for nearly 8 years at IBM Research as a software engineer on speaker recognition, speech recognition, gender detection, keyword search, etc. I’ve been programming since I was in high school. I have a bachelor’s degree in computer science from 2002. I’m hoping this will also help keep myself accountable to my goal. My husband runs dev-notes, and I plan to use it to chronicle my journey. I quit my job this year to shift my career towards Machine Learning.
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