For years I was low key obsessed with the idea that I should ditch regular programming, and become a data science. My thought process was very crude. Data science was mathsy and paid more, therefore it was a great career move!
After a few abortive attempts to learn statistics and linear algebra in isolation, I decided to sign up to that famous Andrew Ng online course.
I was bored out of my mind. I just did not find it at all interesting.
Not sure what my point is - maybe that a really easy way to learn if a seemingly lucrative and interesting thing is for you or not is to go ahead and learn the very basics of it directly, and see if you are at all motivated. I was not. And after that it was out of my mind.
After a few abortive attempts to learn statistics and linear algebra in isolation, I decided to sign up to that famous Andrew Ng online course.
I was bored out of my mind. I just did not find it at all interesting.
Not sure what my point is - maybe that a really easy way to learn if a seemingly lucrative and interesting thing is for you or not is to go ahead and learn the very basics of it directly, and see if you are at all motivated. I was not. And after that it was out of my mind.