Ask HN: Makes sense to do Masters in Computer Science after 13 years experience?

Re:Ask HN: Makes sense to do Masters in Computer Science aft... by lucasosouza on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @11:23AM (#19431645)

Definitely pays off to go back to school. You will be in an environment where everyone around you, tenured professors and young students alike, are pushing hard to keep learning and growing. That will be specially true if you pick a research area in which the state of the art changes every 6 months (maybe distributed computing fits this description, I'm not sure, I work with AI/DL/RL).

And if you are the kind of person that can only be happy while you are personally growing, the motivation is learning in itself.

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Re:Ask HN: Makes sense to do Masters in Computer Science aft... by sidcool on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @11:30AM (#19431741)

I for some reason, don't like AI/ML and its cousins. I could just be bad at them, but I get annoyed with the hype around it. There of course are people doing amazing things in it, but I don't see myself among them.

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Re:Ask HN: Makes sense to do Masters in Computer Science aft... by bad_news_bears on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @02:26PM (#19433909)

What grievances do you have with the field, outside of generally being annoyed? Just curious, as I work in the field.

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Re:Ask HN: Makes sense to do Masters in Computer Science aft... by sidcool on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @02:43PM (#19434129)

Most people I have met who claim they are AI/ML experts, usually do linear regression or use pytorch or Tensor flow to get results. I don't say that's not valuable. But I don't think they are experts.

The hype has attracted manager like people who call themselves AI experts who have read a book on what AI can do and simply write blogs on the dangers of AI.

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