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Originally Posted by leavesofliberty
Autodidats should take over the world by finding the best resources, collecting them, adding resources on starting your own business, and innovate. Hiring managers and recruiters do not take chances, where an autodictat can.
An autodidact isn't
can take chances, they
must take chances. You are correct, the mind-set and goals between an autodidact applicant and a non-auto hiring manager are very different.
The silly part of running your own business is that coding ends up playing second-fiddle to everything else. No end-user buys a program; they buy a story, a person, or a pretty website / advertisement.
Most of the resources I've found for business development has been at best, philosophical. The only thing that makes a difference is knowing the math or not knowing the math. You are making a huge mistake if you are trying to figure out what works before pushing out ideas and seeing the results. You simply don't know until you try, then you realize no one knows what they are doing when they start out, and no one knows how to make your idea work. The only practical resource I've ever found was
Marketing Metrics.
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Originally Posted by leavesofliberty
I am going to go all-in on machine learning. In the next 5 years, hopefully 3, I'll have a PhD's worth of knowledge, and earning passive income in the meantime to foster my academic goals. I may go into financial markets w knowledge.
I'll post a best-of thread at some point w YT's. Most of the ML is in Python but TensorFlow is not exclusive to Python. I am going to finish my exhaustive study of C++ first.
I am studying about 40+ hours per week.
I've been the 40+ hours study person.
I say this to everyone: don't wait. Just apply, get your feet wet, start your business, etc. The worst thing you can ever do is try to become the absolute best before going out and trying to break in. You already said the goals of hiring managers and autos don't align, and this is true. No one cares, no one is looking for diamonds in the rough, and the worst situation you can be in is having zero experience and having the knowledge of someone with 10 years experience. If you can do basic neural nets and gradient descents, you are well above qualified.
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Originally Posted by OmgGlutten!
Well anyone who can pay the tuition can go to a boot camp, whereas getting a degree means the person had to at least be able to pass the classes.
It's the reverse. Not anyone can drop $10k for a boot camp and fade a possible year of full-time job searching with no useful income.
The US government has guaranteed school loans, and if you are a resident of certain states, you can get an associates from a community college for free, apply for Pell grants, and at least have some money left over
Bootcamps have limited slots, and few get in. A state or community college basically has to accept everyone.
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Also, with regards to autodidacts, Code School sold for $36m so they must have a fair amount of subs
That's not really an autodidact resource.
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- I don't know how many autodidact applications companies are getting, but the more they get, the worse it is for those applicants. I would imagine that there is a larger range of skills/ability for these applications than from those who have a CS degree.
I wouldn't know the applicant pool either, but I'd guess that, on average, an auto is well below the CS student in many areas, such as higher-level math, operating systems, and compilers.