Do you try to get more educated in retirement?

[flyingaway]

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Originally Posted by misterantsypants It is my goal to learn Mandarin, because I love traveling in China, Chengdu (14 million) had 1 murder last year. Safe country. Do you have any goals in this respect?

I have to disagree with the data. They just do not allow unfavorable data to appear or to be reported. (I am from there).
Mandarin is a very difficult language, especially reading and writing. In Chengdu, they speak a different dialect. A few hundred miles outside Chengdu, you may hear a different dialect.

[misterantsypants]

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Originally Posted by griffithee I got a BS in Computer Science. Mostly because GI bill was paying me to go to school (fatten the stache) and because I have always wanted to learn to program. Granted, I could have learned to program for free on the interwebs but then nobody was going to pay me for it so there is that. I thought about using the rest of my GI Bill to go to Law School but dont want to study for the LSAT. Now I am leaning toward a graduate degree (MS or PHD) in Machine Learning or something of the sort. The field catches my interest. Then again I have always wanted to learn to weld so may go that route.

Unsolicited, but think about AI, my friend is currently working in AI and his job seems great, but I'm not the one going to work each day. You'll likely do well anything you choose.

[griffithee]

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Originally Posted by misterantsypants Unsolicited, but think about AI, my friend is currently working in AI and his job seems great, but I'm not the one going to work each day. You'll likely do well anything you choose.

Most definitely interested in AI. I think deep learning is where I am leaning.

I have no intention of doing it for a J.O.B...

I just like the field and find it absolutely fascinating. I like the math and stats/prob, and using the computer to do all the grunt work looks like so much fun. Plus if my dear old Uncle Sam insists on paying me to do it, who am I to say no.

[imoldernu]

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Originally Posted by W2R Honestly, for once in my life, I don't have to TRY to get more educated - - I can (and do) easily explore many facets of mankind's knowledge and can barely avoid doing so in my daily life. So much information is right here at my fingertips, on the internet. I already have multiple advanced degrees and don't feel the need for any more formal education. But informal? It is all around us, every day. All we need is curiosity and opportunity, and I am not presently lacking in either.

+1

love the new, but starting to lose some of the old... French, German and Latin are on the downside... no one to talk with... nothing with Astronomy, World Religions, Classical Music or Art Appreciation, and Creative Writing has gone... well... you know...

Too old to go back to school, and my local library is the weakest part of the town where we live.

About the only single science that I try to stay up with, is Psych... but surprisingly, not a whole lot newer than what I learned 60 years ago.

The most fun is politics, and I split my time between the conservative and liberal TV stations and websites. Headspinning...

[sengsational]

I learned a two languages that I'd never tried while w*rking.



I've coded in many "tongues" through the years, but never for a mobile device, so....



The results: released mobile apps on Google Play and Apple App Store.


I wrote more in this post, which has a lot of the same stuff as will probably be in this thread.