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I assume the first case, i.e. you have about 4 days to learn something. I'd recommend taking up some paid, intensive training as most such trainings take about 3-5 days and you can maximize the learning during the 4 days of timeframe.
Chemically induced reprogramming to reverse cellular aging [1] a.k.a. OSKM
My first experiments would be on some really old horses. I could probably buy a 30 year old horse from a neighbor. She is on her last leg. I want to make her younger again and then just let her have many more years of chilling and not having to make babies every year. If can learn this well enough to reverse the age of a dozen horses then my second test subject would be myself. If I get that right then my friends could optionally do the same.
AI, LLM basics. A hundred hours won't even scratch the surface of recent advanced, but I’d like to understand how LLMs work and the main approaches (diffusion, RLHF), their pros and cons. Theory of relativity. I’ve never quite been able to wrap my head around it. Given some free time, I would really want to understand how two simple postulates can lead to such far-reaching conclusions.
Careers are made of people not knowledge. Good luck.
Instead of learning software engineering I would want to learn: Chemically induced reprogramming to reverse cellular aging [1] a.k.a. OSKM My first experiments would be on some really old horses. I could probably buy a 30 year old horse from a neighbor. She is on her last leg. I want to make her younger again and then just let her have many more years of chilling and not having to make babies every year. If can learn…
* Did I miss a tone indicator (/s) in your response?
* If not, why do you think that transcriptional reprogramming of fibroblast cells in culture (as per the Yang et al. paper you cite), which results in "reversing trancriptomic age" can be applied to whole organisms?
* Ignoring the "de-aging" horses bit, is it realistic to think that getting a handle on the science behind cellular reprogramming is really just a 100 hour task?
Blender, Godot and perhaps Rust. I wish I could do things which I enjoy, not just do things which I need to do to pay the bills.
Maths. Every hundred hours into it is good.
It won't boost my career, but if I had 100 hours I would spend my time learning formal methods for software development probably going through this course: https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hehner/FMSD/ .
Did you know there were verification competitions? [0]
[0] https://alastairreid.github.io/verification-competitions/
As a software engineer, probably JavaScript, as I focus on back-end and don’t have many front-end skills aside from a good hand at design. In general, though, since I believe I’ll lose my job to AI, I’d like to learn and become an electrician.
Frontend Masters might be worth checking out.