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I just moved to the Seattle area and like it so far. It's very scenic and cool so far temperature-wise (although getting warmer over the years from what I read). I have family here, but even if I didn't, it'd be a strong candidate because of the weather (I'm ok with cloudy and cool), nature/scenery, and the tech industry. Housing is quite expensive though so raising kids may be more difficult...

Cool, thanks for the advice!

I'm just getting into robotics with a background in software and I ended up choosing the Isaac Sim platform/ecosystem (https://docs.omniverse.nvidia.com/isaacsim/latest/index.html) and Jetbot (https://jetbot.org/master/) since they seem suited for neural networks and reinforcement learning. So far getting up and running with the simulation side hasn't been too bad and there is a model for the Jetbot in Isaac Sim since it's also by Nvidia. I haven't started on the hardware side so can't speak on that. The downside for some might be it's proprietary and Jetbot itself is a bit out of date and nearing end of life support.

I'd probably wait for the Meta Quest 3 to come out to use with your PC since it'll probably be the best bang for your buck. If you want an alternative to Meta or something more futuristic then the Big Screen Beyond is looking very interesting. You'll have to buy tracking base stations and controllers separately with the Big Screen Beyond so it'll be considerably more expensive. I'd also wait for some reviews although preliminary first impressions on YouTube are promising.

I'll second/third this. When I was interested in becoming a manager, I talked to my manager about it and developed a long term plan to make the transition. This included stuff like going through internal company courses on management and incrementally taking on management-type responsibilities and tasks. I ended up changing my mind, but I'd say your manager can be a good resource for making that transition.

I've had a lot more success programming in the morning before going into the office. There might not be as much potential time to work, but I've found myself making more progress getting 30 minutes done a day every day than the intermittent multi-hour blocks I'd program when I had enough energy/motivation after coming home from work.

Hey Arjun this is Irvin, Chacko's friend from UT, cool seeing your comment here. To be somewhat on topic :-) I went to LSMSA the Louisiana equivalent and am also appreciative of the school and the community it created. It definitely introduced me to computer science much earlier than I would have otherwise...

Udacity has a data science track of courses (https://www.udacity.com/courses#!/Data%20Science) and the blog has recently had data science related posts (http://blog.udacity.com/).

You can also take a free course online (https://www.udacity.com/course/cs212) by Peter Norvig with Udacity (https://www.udacity.com/) in case you can't make it to hacker school.

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Check us out at http://www.udacity.com/ and http://www.udacity.com/jobs and feel free to send me a message if you're interested/have questions [email protected].

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Udacity is leading the way in massively open online courses. We started with http://www.ai-class.com and took the lessons learned from that experience to build http://www.udacity.com/, a website delivering quality higher education to people all around the world. We have new and exciting technology and classes in the pipeline and we need great engineers to help shape this movement. Check us out at http://www.udacity.com/ and feel free to send me a message if you're interested/have questions [email protected].

Just want to mention that the start-up behind ai-class.com is looking for great engineers. If you're interested in education shoot me an email at [email protected].

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Meant Los Altos :-)

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Know Labs is a Silicon Valley-based startup looking to change the future of education by making it more accessible and less expensive. Our first class attracted 160,000 students in 190 countries and was translated into 40 languages. We're looking for great software engineers to grow our platform.. A few of the tools we use are Python, ngninx, jQuery, and MySQL so experience with any of these and/or scaling, databases, and system administration is a plus, but we're mainly looking for great engineers who believe in improving education and want to have a big impact on both our platform and the world. Get in touch with us at [email protected].