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1) i've been pulling things out of DBs and putting them on web pages for 30 years, and along comes these breakthroughs in AI which...my apologies to the naysayers...i'm just blown away by what i'm witnessing, and i just _must_ learn more about how this works.

2) discovering the OMSCS program was an a-ha moment for me: it's prestigious, inexpensive, and I don't have to jump through a lot of hoops (GRE) to enroll. It only cost me < 1 hour and < $100 to apply.

3) There's no pressure on me to complete the program. I can do it one course at a time, and as long as i'm getting something out of it, i will continue. Each class is...$600-$700 or something like that. I fully am ok w/ stopping if it takes too much of a personal / marital toll on me.

4) My imposter syndrome is pretty terrible right now...part of me wants to know if i've 'still got it' (i did really well at U of MD CS).

5) I loved the Rodney Dangerfield movie "Back to School" :-)

EDIT: 6) Also i wouldn't mind converting to the MLE role at some point.

EDIT 2: I blame Paolo Perrotta for writing such an inspiring book (https://www.progml.com/) that ruined my cruise in september (kept rereading the book at the pool) and starting me on this path ;-)

Comment · 2 years ago

I am 53 and cramming while relearning linear algebra, statistics, and calculus, after a 30 year break from college, in preparation for my first semester at GA Tech's online MS CS program in the fall. I love this! But...before I check it out, I'm going to be surprised if it competes with the already-incredible free help i've gotten from chatgpt-3.5. Recently I asked it the following (where it made a mistake that confused me!), but i followed up w/ a question about it, and it corrected the mistake and re-answered the question, all with no wait at all, and free:

```Given a new 3x3 matrix A having columns (4,2,2), (-1,1,-1), and (6,6,8) and an eigenvalue of 2, help me find a basis for the corresponding eigenspace. Also, given that I is the 3x3 identity matrix, why does the equation (A - 2I)x = 0 having free variables make it obvious that 2 is indeed an eigenvalue.```

I'm still going to check out your site, and I do wish you well, but i'm curious how it will stack up against AI tutors.

Comment · 2 years ago

we spend so much time w/ our co-workers. If i can make some genuine friendships by being myself, that's far more valuable to me than 'keeping my job'.

Comment · 3 years ago

i had an anal fissure for some time (6 weeks) and it was also unbearable. opiods didn't help at all. the drs told me something about them not working in that part of the body. hot baths several times a day. they wanted me to insert some cream up there using my pinky, which just make the pain worse by re-aggravating the area. I'm still not sure how it eventually healed, but I really started to understand why people in chronic pain would consider suicide.

Comment · 4 years ago

that was fantastic, but i feel it's cheating a bit when you just make fun of yourself for being fat for 3 straight minutes. If you took away the obesity, i wonder if it'd have been as easy for him to get laughs. The same thing happens when people harp on their ethnic quirks constantly in sets. Take that away and what else do you have?

Comment · 4 years ago

are you allowed to show up armed, in case they are waiting for you? If you end up in a shootout, will you be considered the aggressor? Seems dangerous to me

Comment · 4 years ago

I'm with you. In my 20's, I was crippled with anxiety when trying to talk to any female I was interested in. After two marriages (very happy in my second), I feel like I could go out do pretty well if I were single. I wish I had my present personality/confidence w/ my better-looking younger self (i'm almost 52 now).