It’s been a week. Let them cook!

Trump was nearly assassinated twice this year-- 3 times if you count the Iranian plot that didn’t get out of the planning phase.

It looks like he was summoning a person to comment.

Yeah. They do, but the certificates aren’t free and wouldn’t necessarily contribute to a degree anywhere, so I’m not sure what the advantage would be of doing it that way.

To give you a sense of the level of content, here’s an introductory class in ML.

Yeah. the CUNY one is definitely meant for career switching, but the Georgia tech one will probably expect you to know the math fields listed above as it is fairly competitive. Though, I know someone with an Economics bachelors who did quite well in the CUNY program. They even offer an introductory course for people with 0 programming experience. I really do think it would a good fit, given your background. Link here. A head’s up though-- graduate degrees will require more independent work than undergraduate did. Like, course meetings were less lectures explaining new content and more answering specific questions after you learn the content on your own. I was expected to have completed the homework before the topic was covered in class (though it wasn’t graded for correctness). I would say that’s the categorical difference with advanced degrees.

I’d spend some time on Khan Academy to brush up/catch up on the basic math concepts. That’s where I learned those topics.

I know you asked for some kind of personal interaction, but that content is the gold standard for math education. You can always ping me if you have specific questions and I’ll do my best to respond.

I work in the field. Generally, jobs that include AI development generally require advanced degrees and the vast majority require a PhD with peer reviewed publications in major conferences. You will be fighting an uphill battle if you don’t have an advanced degree in mathematics or computer science. You also need to know calculus, linear algebra and statistics to understand how modern machine learning models work.

In short, while online courses can be perfectly effective, unless they’re through an accredited higher education institution, I don’t think it will help you compete with other applicants who have 8+ years of schooling and published papers.

That being said, Georgia Tech and the City University of New York both offer master’s degrees in data science via remote master’s programs where the courses happen after work hours and are meant to be completed while working full-time.

https://youtu.be/IlD08Rh6xa8

I think this scene nails it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160812025917/http://www.iariw.org/papers/2014/GustafssonPaper.pdf

I didn’t change the subject. I’m saying those right were earned by unions and not gifted by politicians.

As somebody who lives and works in Sweden with a PhD in computer science, I had more disposable income when I washed dishes in NYC. So, yeah, I would say wages are pretty low.

You mean the country with basically universal union membership and literally 0 legislation around minimum wage?

The one where worker’s rights are guaranteed by union negotiations and the threat of a strike rather than national legislation?

You have failed to list a single example of legislative change that didn’t have the backing of a mass mobilization and credible threats to capital. I have presented several instances that support the claim that legislative change is dependent on working class organization.

I’m not saying that at all. I’m just saying that crediting the the UK for progressive politics while they enslaved half the world is a weird take.

I would make the exact same claim about the US, considering that neo-slavery (indentured servitude/whites only towns) wasn’t abolished until after world war 2.

In fact, one of the most violent events in US history was a white mob that murdered an entire town of black people for trying to unionize.

Those white folks sure understood the power of working class solidarity and it’s fundamental threat to capital.

That’s also probably why MLKJ was assassinated during the poor people’s campaign that sought to unite the grievances of the civil rights movement with the concerns of poor whites.

nah, man. Being able to vote inalienable. You get the vote by existing, not by meeting some arbitrary standard set by the ruling party. Stop blaming the voters and start blaming the party that failed them

Right. So it was a 50 year long struggle led by the working class and groups like the Wobblies and your solution is to vote harder?

To what extent can we credit colonial nations like Portugal and the UK and the Netherlands for extending this right exclusively to white people with political capital?

Is it really a “pass” if the comfort of the homeland was predicated on slavery and/or empire elsewhere?

Also, I need a source about other countries enacting this before the US. In the 1880s, there wasn’t exactly a plethora of Democratic governments anywhere. Germany was a brand new idea and so was Italy. France encompassed parts of Spain and Sweden, which was itself an empire with a military dictator. The UK is still a monarchy with colonies that want to secede (namely Jamaica) and the Netherlands is too. Swedish people didn’t have surnames yet–they adopted the last name of their employer.

Eastern Europe had serfdom and antisemitic laws were the norm.

I would totally believe the UK got it first, but not without a mass mobilization of working class people.

Seriously, what are you talking about?

I think the law is irrelevant without a mass movement. You simply won’t get the law without the mass movement.

You can’t get from where we are to working class liberation without passing through working class struggle.

no, no. you must mean how school lunch exists because of electoral poltics and not because the original program was started by the black Panthers.

Or did you mean when US military service members occupied DC to get the GI Bill?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army?wprov=sfla1

Maybe this coal miners strike that was an armed uprising?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain

ah ok. In that case, I’ll point you to the bombing of a police vehicle that led to the 40 hour work week and an international holiday for workers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair?wprov=sfla1

Nah. monarchies were largely ended by the Napoleonic wars and world war 1. It’s ahistorical to say Democracy was earned through electoralism. It also just makes no sense.

The Spanish revolution was definitely a bloody conflict. So was the foundation of Yugoslavia and it’s NATO backed dissolution. So was Finnish independence from Russia. Or Ukrainian. Or Polish. Or Estonian or Latvian.

Switzerland was founded by war too. Germany’s democracy was imposed by an occupying force-- as was Japan’s.

France murdered their entire royal family. British India faced a decades long insurgency and worker strikes. The Magna Carta was signed after the king was fucking kidnapped.

America’s founding myth is centered on a symbolic action to destroy private property (the Boston tea party).

The only country (that I can think of) that voted for it’s democracy was Canada and that was only after a genocide of the indigenous population and centuries of colonial rule.