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Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

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Post by Hortinstein »

tmbsundar wrote: post #127

Learning from Data by Caltech Professor Yaser Abu-Mostafa : https://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html . There was an edX version last year MMDS: Mining Massive Datasets by Stanford professors Jure Leskovec, Anand Rajaraman,Jeff Ullman, Link: https://www.coursera.org/course/mmds Neural Networks for Machine Learning: Geoffrey Hinton, Link: https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets Artificial Intelligence for Robotics:…

I took Mr. Thrun's class on Programming a Robotic Car last year for part of my OMSCS classes at GA Tech.

They should use classes like this in undergrad computer science to show why Linear Algebra will be so important and the amazing applications you can do with it. Highly recommended.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

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Post by alkalait »

platz wrote: post #56
samwgoldman wrote: post #20

I haven't taken many online courses, but here are my favorites (notice a trend): Andrew Ng's ML Class - This makes the list because it is incredibly useful. I didn't have much background in the field and this class is a practical survey of ideas. Not a ton of depth, but exposes you to a lot of information gently. Daphne Koller's PGM Class - This was the most rewarding. I banged my head on a lot of this material, but…

Koller's PGM was fun but very hard to generalize outside of the problems presented in the class. Opportunities to implement loopy belief propagation just don't seem to come up as much ad I'd like.

That's because most were toy examples dealing with discrete distributions in a few dimensions. Granted, these are mathematically easier to deal with, but not representative of real-world scenarios.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

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Post by tmbsundar »

manish_gill wrote: post #121

Can't edit my earlier comment, so making a new one: There are quite a few people on HN who are great at Economics and Finance. Could someone recommend some courses and texts (and hopefully a "path") for a complete beginner to understand it? I'd like to be able to better understand things like the FT and all the stats that CNBC shows me etc. Also hopefully get skilled enough to start investing in the market. Not to me…

What do you mean by FT? "Financial Technology" or "Futures Trading"?

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

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Post by mynegation »

manish_gill wrote: post #121

Can't edit my earlier comment, so making a new one: There are quite a few people on HN who are great at Economics and Finance. Could someone recommend some courses and texts (and hopefully a "path") for a complete beginner to understand it? I'd like to be able to better understand things like the FT and all the stats that CNBC shows me etc. Also hopefully get skilled enough to start investing in the market. Not to me…

Have recommended that before: CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) preparation materials. You can buy used ones for cheap as they lose their value extremely fast for people preparing for the exam, but small changes of accounting regulations should not concern you if you are reading just to educated yourself.

They might seem overwhelming, but I am yet to find another set of books with such neatly organized and concentrated material on Economics and Finance.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

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Post by roye »

alkalait wrote: post #130
tmbsundar wrote: post #127

Learning from Data by Caltech Professor Yaser Abu-Mostafa : https://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html . There was an edX version last year MMDS: Mining Massive Datasets by Stanford professors Jure Leskovec, Anand Rajaraman,Jeff Ullman, Link: https://www.coursera.org/course/mmds Neural Networks for Machine Learning: Geoffrey Hinton, Link: https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets Artificial Intelligence for Robotics:…

I enjoyed MMDS, but the lectures given by Ulman were painful to sit through. The man could simply not deliver a single sentence not read verbatim from a screen.

same here, had to watch some of those lectures at 2x speed

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

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Post by manish_gill »

tmbsundar wrote: post #133
manish_gill wrote: post #121

Can't edit my earlier comment, so making a new one: There are quite a few people on HN who are great at Economics and Finance. Could someone recommend some courses and texts (and hopefully a "path") for a complete beginner to understand it? I'd like to be able to better understand things like the FT and all the stats that CNBC shows me etc. Also hopefully get skilled enough to start investing in the market. Not to me…

What do you mean by FT? "Financial Technology" or "Futures Trading"?

Financial Technology, but I guess Future Tradings would also be something I would want to learn? I'm at the beginner stage where I don't know what I need to know!

But my long term goal is to combine my CS background with Finance and do something interesting in it, if that makes any sense.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

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Post by [deleted] »

tmbsundar wrote: post #133
manish_gill wrote: post #121

Can't edit my earlier comment, so making a new one: There are quite a few people on HN who are great at Economics and Finance. Could someone recommend some courses and texts (and hopefully a "path") for a complete beginner to understand it? I'd like to be able to better understand things like the FT and all the stats that CNBC shows me etc. Also hopefully get skilled enough to start investing in the market. Not to me…

What do you mean by FT? "Financial Technology" or "Futures Trading"?

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Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

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Post by manish_gill »

mynegation wrote: post #134
manish_gill wrote: post #121

Can't edit my earlier comment, so making a new one: There are quite a few people on HN who are great at Economics and Finance. Could someone recommend some courses and texts (and hopefully a "path") for a complete beginner to understand it? I'd like to be able to better understand things like the FT and all the stats that CNBC shows me etc. Also hopefully get skilled enough to start investing in the market. Not to me…

Have recommended that before: CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) preparation materials. You can buy used ones for cheap as they lose their value extremely fast for people preparing for the exam, but small changes of accounting regulations should not concern you if you are reading just to educated yourself. They might seem overwhelming, but I am yet to find another set of books with such neatly organized and concentrat…

Thanks, will check them out.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

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Post by estefan »

tmbsundar wrote: post #128
estefan wrote: post #115

Can anyone recommend a course on business organisation? I'm planning on starting a startup and want to round out my business knowledge as to who I should hire. I want to stay in charge of tech & strategy while letting someone else manage finance, hr, etc. I couldn't find a single one that actually explains what a CEO does on coursera/edx/novoed.

Try Steve Blank's How to Build a Startup. Link: https://www.udacity.com/course/how-to-build-a-startup--ep245

This doesn't seem to cover business organisation either. I know there are plenty of these "how to start a startup" courses, but i'm looking to fill in a specific niche of knowledge, not have to sift through another general course.

That said I've heard great things about "4 steps" but haven't got round to reading it yet so I guess it's worth a watch based on the instructor, so thanks anyway.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?

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Post by whitenoice »

ctoomey wrote: post #70

Algorithms: Design and Analysis Parts 1 and 2 ( https://www.coursera.org/course/algo and https://www.coursera.org/course/algo2 ) taught by Tim Roughgarden of Stanford. Tim's the best professor I've ever had either on or offline and he does a fantastic job explaining the concepts and breaking down the algorithms into digestible, intuitive pieces. His enthusiasm for the topic and the impressive algorithms is contagious…

Here's another very well explained data structure and algorithms course lectures from IIT - http://nptel.ac.in/video.php?subjectId=106102064
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