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Ask HN: How much time per week for a part-time PhD in AI?

2 pointsby Qribaabout 4 years ago
Info about me:<p>- 44 year old, wife and a 3 years old - Wife is pregnant with our second child (probably bad news for doing a phd) - My background is mainly Networking (Juniper&#x2F;Cisco..etc) - I work full time, but job is not stressful and does pay well - No backgroung in programming, although I started learning react recently<p>I need advice on two things:<p>- How hard will the PHD be with no background in programming. I think I can pick up the algos&#x2F;data structure and I was good at math.<p>- How much time per week will I need?<p>I&#x27;m aiming for a part-time phd which will be over the course of 6 years to complete.

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Qribaabout 4 years ago
Forgot to say I do have a telco engineering degree but this was 15 years ago.