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Re: Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?

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Post by libdjml »

dyukqu wrote: post #216
libdjml wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has anyone read her book and can comment on the differences? I own the book and have half-read it twice, it’s very underwhelming. At no point am I thinking “that’s going to change my way of doing X”

I haven't read the book but looked through it (hastily though). It was pretty the same - like a slide version of the course. You shouldn't expect some direct instructions about "how to do/achieve X" in this course/book, I would say. It's more like Brain 101 - A layman's guide on how to use it efficiently . I say "layman", because as you go through the course you realize how little you know about your own brain. It te…

Thanks, really appreciate the writeup. I might give the course a crack, given the positive reviews it’s getting in this thread.

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Post by carlosgg »

antman wrote: post #202
carlosgg wrote: post #185

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey antman, thanks a lot for the comment! Can you elaborate a bit more on how MooCs have made a difference in your life? Thank you.

I was a mech eng manager in industrial automation. Did the MOOCs, chose a domain, started a phd in ML and AI by showing my MOOC results, got picked during the 3rd year from one of the big consulting companies, now running a series of international projects. Banking(IT only), AI, CompVision and Analytics.

Wow, that's excellent. Great job.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?

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Post by carlosgg »

SiVal wrote: post #221
antman wrote: post #163

As a serial MOOCist I cannot single out any one so here is a list per domain. Data Science Introduction to Probability - The Science of Uncertainty,math oriented MIT/EDX Difficulty:5/5 Videos:5/5 Material and exercises:5/5 Usefulness: 5/5 Learning from Data, math oriented formerly Caltech/EDX now on caltech, check the exercises and you will see the difference in quality with Andrew Ng: Difficulty:4/5 Videos:4:5 Mater…

Are all of these non-data science courses from the same source? From different sources? Where are they?

The first 4 he listed are on edX.org, the 5th and 6th on Coursera.

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Post by wyclif »

calenti wrote: post #70
sampo wrote: post #26

Most fun: Pat Pattison, Songwriting, Coursera. Very good lectures, very good material, very well presented. Teaches a lot about writing song lyrics in just 6 weeks, breaks it nicely down to steps and recipes. I used to think that the best feature of MOOCs is the automatic grading and feedback from programming homework, but in this course, for the homework songwriting you gave and got feedback from 3-5 random people i…

The coursera songwriting course is really great. Also Python for Beginners, the one that uses CodeSkulptor.

Do you mean "Python Programming Essentials"? https://www.coursera.org/learn/python-programming

Re: Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?

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Post by MadSudaca »

nbouscal wrote: post #244

Linear Dynamical Systems by Stephen Boyd of Stanford: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf1264iFr-w&list=PL06960BA52... Programming Languages by Dan Grossman of University of Washington: https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages

what's good about the first one?

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Post by acutesoftware »

I've done a few from coursera and the best MOOC's I have taken are:

Machine Learning = really good overview of ML, well explained. I did this first but struggled with some of the maths, so took maths refreshers afterwards

Calculus 1 - I have never had a maths class where the Professors made the content so interesting and with such enthusiasm.

Human-Computer Interaction - worth doing if you are building websites / apps

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Post by bigtunacan »

ransom1538 wrote: post #57

Ethical hacking. This guy is pretty legit, first class: install Kali Linux. https://www.udemy.com/learn-ethical-hacking-from-scratch/ Andrew Ng. Machine Learning (Stanford) (youtube free) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLKOQfKLUks

I’ll second Ethical Hacking. His pen testing material is a benefit to any web developer serious about building secure applications. In addition Zaib does a great job of regularly updating the materials and is very responsive to students questions.

This is the only MOOC that I have gone through multiple times.

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Post by Freeboots »

Suncho wrote: post #48

Economics of Money and Banking, taught by Perry Mehrling on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/money-banking It's just fantastic. He explains what money really is from the perspective of treating everyone as a bank. Also, lots of good history here including the history of central banking, the gold standard, and war finance. Anyone who wants to understand money should take this course. It would be nice if more c…

But muh deflation!

Re: Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?

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Post by ljiljana »

harry8 wrote: post #235

Currently enjoying the 2017 lectures (and I bought the text) for McElreath's bayesian stats course: http://xcelab.net/rm/statistical-rethinking/ Strang's MIT OCW Linear Algebra is pretty good. Probably also needs the textbook. John Tsitsiklis' MITx edx Probability intro course is probably the best course I've taken anywhere and better than anything I did in person at university. I didn't buy the text for this one tho…

Came here to suggest Robert Sapolsky's class as well.

I would also add Michael Sandel's Justice: What's the right thing to do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdfcR-8hEY&list=PL15D875D84... great course on moral reasoning, covers different theories of justice based on ideas from Aristotle, Kant, John Stuart Mill, John Rawls and many more, extremely well presented too.

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Post by sewercake »

jpfr wrote: post #157

MIT OCW contains quite a few true gems. These lectures will still be worth watching 100 years from now. - Differential Equations from 2015: https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-18-009-learn-differential-... - The original SICP recordings from 1986: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

what makes the differential equation course so good, in your mind?
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