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1970- Hey Guys I want to start programming with the PDP-10.Did I miss the boat? 1980- Guys I want to learn about micro-controllers, is it too late? 1990- GUI
by cambalache 6y ago
1970- Hey Guys I want to start programming with the PDP-10.Did I miss the boat?
1980- Guys I want to learn about micro-controllers, is it too late?
1990- GUI programming
2000- Linux, Internet, you name it
2010 -. Javascript
In 30 years time (at the very least) there will be still Data Science. So if you are really up to it, id does not matter if you should have started 5 years ago or now. If you suck at it or really dont like it, it would make no difference either.
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoBut there's been Data Science jobs since at least the 50's. 50-60's: Operations Research 70's: Statistics 80's: KDD (knowledge discovery in databases) 90's: analytics (statistics again) 00's: Data science 10's: ML/AI 20's: ??? The tools and problems may have changed, but the core skills (statistics, some coding and data awareness) are identical.
- ku-man 6y agoThis is accurate. The difference this time are the absurd levels of hype we have to deal with.