Coding General Discussion

[sameer]

If anyone is interested in Machine learning/Deep learning, Here's one website. Has a project based learning approach. Some are free and some are paid.

Courses

Discover the best courses to build a career in AI | Whether you're a beginner or an experienced practitioner, our world-class curriculum and unique teaching methodology will guide you through every stage of your Al journey.

www.deeplearning.ai

I personally work in the semiconductor industry and lot of my work is in C++. So the above website has been a good way to upgrade skills and branch out.

btw If anyone else has other websites/books/resources for learning ML/AI, then please do share.

@ArjunMK1A If you are interested in data science careers, then invest in learning ML and statistics. Learn Python and R as well. There are some courses on sites like coursera.

 

[concard]

If anyone is interested in Machine learning/Deep learning, Here's one website. Has a project based learning approach. Some are free and some are paid.

Courses

Discover the best courses to build a career in AI | Whether you're a beginner or an experienced practitioner, our world-class curriculum and unique teaching methodology will guide you through every stage of your Al journey.

www.deeplearning.ai

I personally work in the semiconductor industry and lot of my work is in C++. So the above website has been a good way to upgrade skills and branch out.

btw If anyone else has other websites/books/resources for learning ML/AI, then please do share.

@ArjunMK1A If you are interested in data science careers, then invest in learning ML and statistics. Learn Python and R as well. There are some courses on sites like coursera.

What's the next thing in software? Please don't tell me about AI or Machine learning, I have heard enough of it. Is there anything where we can make $1 million - $10 million in services per year. I am talking about any niche area where I can provide services to companies where others have not shown much interest. I feel like I have become soulless working in Technology. It's like my work is used for mere consumerism of the masses which in turn has devastating impact on the planet. I want to make a small difference somewhere but I have no idea where to look.

Just to give an example what I am looking for in general, imagine through software I am able to save our country 5% of crude oil imports, that would make me happy. Something more like where there is positive environmental and societal impact. I am not interested in catering to building another app or service which promotes only consumerism.

 

[sameer]

What's the next thing in software? Please don't tell me about AI or Machine learning, I have heard enough of it.

Some of the hype is dying down now. A lot of the AI stocks are also going down. But it is an important skill to keep learning nevertheless at least personally for me because I don't want to be left out. As an example recently, our company was piloting Github Copilot for all SW developers, and some of things that it could do were surprising. i.e it was automatically able to fill in various blocks of code if given enough description and context, though I still had to double check and edit some stuff for code quality.

It is not a level where it can automatically identify bugs and fix them, but it was still eye opening nevertheless, because earlier I used to consider LLM's as just hyped up garbage.

The truth about all this AI stuff is somewhere in the middle. I'd still say that it is the next biggest thing, at least in the Computer science field, but not as much hyped up or incredible as it is being marketed to be.

I feel like I have become soulless working in Technology. It's like my work is used for mere consumerism of the masses which in turn has devastating impact on the planet. I want to make a small difference somewhere but I have no idea where to look.

Just to give an example what I am looking for in general, imagine through software I am able to save our country 5% of crude oil imports, that would make me happy. Something more like where there is positive environmental and societal impact. I am not interested in catering to building another app or service which promotes only consumerism.

Well, tbh almost every corporate desk job is soulless, the glass will always be half full whichever way you look at it, it really depends on how much interest you have in the area you'e working in.

I don't have any specific ideas for you right now, but what you want can perhaps be done through ESG focused startups. Just search for ESG startups, there are many working in the sustainability sector, maybe you'll find something that interests you.

https://www.f6s.com/companies/sustainability/india/co

 

[SKC]

What's the next thing in software? Please don't tell me about AI or Machine learning, I have heard enough of it. Is there anything where we can make $1 million - $10 million in services per year. I am talking about any niche area where I can provide services to companies where others have not shown much interest. I feel like I have become soulless working in Technology. It's like my work is used for mere consumerism of the masses which in turn has devastating impact on the planet. I want to make a small difference somewhere but I have no idea where to look.

Just to give an example what I am looking for in general, imagine through software I am able to save our country 5% of crude oil imports, that would make me happy. Something more like where there is positive environmental and societal impact. I am not interested in catering to building another app or service which promotes only consumerism.

AI or Machine Learning is the product. There are the tools using which you need to come up with a product.

You need to find a use case where you can make something useful using these and then market it to customers with some sensible pricing structure.

What I am seeing these days is the new Cloud based all-in-one platform from Microsoft/Oracle/Google like MS Power Platform which offers reporting, apps development, data transformation, automation, etc all in one place and tied to single licenses.

We are already replacing old custom applications made in Java/Dotnet with apps developed in PowerApps using reports made in PowerBI and flows made in PowerAutomate. Single license covers these three and is much cheaper than hosting a windows server for Java/Dotnet and an Oracle SQL Database.

For the folks in regular IT job, please learn about Power Platform it is creating a havoc already in the IT Services Industry and there is currently shortage of Power Developers in the market.​