72-year-old Congressman pursues a Master's in AI

Post by wolverine876 » Sat, Dec 31, 2022, 12:54 AM UTC

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I'm late 30's and suspect you are also not 70, so I don't know if I'm correct about this, but I suspect that not wanting growth and change at 70 might also be natural and not just social pressure. But regardless I'm very curious how the internet generation will be later in life. I hope I have less anxiety and pressure!

It's fine to stop learning at some point. But that's for when you're retired. As long as you still opt to work (and a congressman definitely had the option to retire), you also have to keep up with the world.

What do you mean by "fine". Is it legal or your own choice? Yes. Is it healthy? I highly doubt it. Will it cause harm? I'm almost certain. I think I've read plenty of researchers advocating continued learning as essential, but I can't cite it..

Post by M3L0NM4N » Sat, Dec 31, 2022, 6:20 AM UTC

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As someone considering my MS in CS with a focus in AI, I gotta ask you why you did it, and was it worth it for your career? Would greatly appreciate the insight, thanks.

Happy to share. My main reason was that I really wanted to get more into machine learning and didn’t feel like it was going to be as fast to go deep on my own. It’s much easier now, both in terms of educational materials available and the amount of people publicly talking about the field, but there’s something to the structure that helped me set aside the time to learn too. I made the choice to not do it full time at…

Awesome, thanks for the detailed response. No questions right now but might shoot you a Twitter DM in the future, will let you know. Thanks again.

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