Anyone have advice on approaching a new career path? I've been a cook/chef for about 7 years now but I've always had a passion in computer sciences and AI. Any advice is helpful.

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As a Data Scientist, I work with these models, but not to the extent of engineering them from scratch or writing them in a language used in production. My background is not in computer science, but I'm very much exposed to software/hardware development, so take my advice for whatever it's worth.

Note: My academic background is in life sciences and a scratch of business. Nearly everything I do in my 9-5 today has no founding in what I learned in school WRT software development. However, WRT data science I am heavy in mathematics/statistics.

If you wanted to mirror what I did, then adhere to the following:

1. DataCamp Data Science with Python track (maybe renamed)...took about 80 hours, but I'm sure the content has changed. Just get through it...it barely made sense at first, but it forces you to start programming right away.

2. Lots of YouTube and Medium (or similar) articles on topics that often overlapped...this helped in my comprehension (loosely follows the "read the textbook 3x" rule).

3. Apply what I learned in the workplace...this was fairly easy because I was essentially a data analyst with a different title. Share with stakeholders the value add. If this doesn't make sense in your job, then make some personal projects and make them public (Github).

4. Learn about incorporating models into a software stack beyond just spinning up Jupyter Notebooks and doing analysis...this became a rabbit hole very quickly...software dev -> computer architecture -> many avenues to go down just learn "enough to be dangerous"

4. Keep learning and be ambitious.

Reach out if you have specific questions

-Cheers

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I'm putting together a Data Scientist zero to hero repo on my Github. There are several out there already, but I've had friends ask so I'm giving it a whack. It will take some time to put together, but I'll post it here when it's done.

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Boot camp for sure. Fastest, cheapest way to make a total switch from a career unrelated to CS/AI into a CS/AI career.

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