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Fundamentals of Operations Research by G Srinivasan. https://medium.com/@jossctz/google-kubernetes-engine-default... It is a great course for non management majors to get a sense about how operations work. In fact, it is meant for non-management students because the course is originally taught at an engineering institute. The instructor is a great figure in Operations Research. He is exceptionally knowledgeable and m…
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I've been meaning to either take the course or read the book. I'm curious if you've read the book [0] and how you would compare or if you'd recommend one, the other or both. [0] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/probabilistic-graphical-model...
I read the book nearly cover to cover. I can't recommend it enough, but it's an enormous time and energy investment.
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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
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> Probabilistic Graphical Models, Daphne Koller – the first course in the specialization has a very good and engaging start, but the gap between lectures and problems widens quickly after that (maybe that's why the author boasts about a "challenging" course "not for everyone"). I'm hesitant to take the next course of the specialization.
I wrote about the first version when it was all in one course. It seems they have split it into 3 courses now. Probably it's less dense now.
The lectures were OK, but the homework was more than challenging. Not only had you to battle with the topic itself, but then you need to magically acquire knowledge in some totally unknown topic (I think it was genetics) and wrangle the quite baroque representation of that topic shoehorned in a programming language that is totally not made for it.
I was on the verge of despair because of those secondary problems. Really.
Fundamentals of Operations Research by G Srinivasan. https://medium.com/@jossctz/google-kubernetes-engine-default... It is a great course for non management majors to get a sense about how operations work. In fact, it is meant for non-management students because the course is originally taught at an engineering institute. The instructor is a great figure in Operations Research. He is exceptionally knowledgeable and m…
Do you have a url? I googled and found just lectures on youtube.
https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17_mg10/preview
As someone into OR myself, I'd like to see if it will be formally given again.
Learning how to learn, Barbara Oakley, Coursera. By far and away the best learning course I've taken in my life as well, I wish it had been available before I had completed my formal education.
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”
Most of the "techniques" are stuff you pick up in middle school.
Also I find the teaching style, with those cute cartoons and sounds, extremely patronizing.
Dan Boneh's Cryptography Part I on Coursera. Will we ever get Part II? Enrolling for Sept 2018 according to Coursera.
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I'd never heard it before either. It's just "online course". guess they wanted to feel cooler with an acronym?
Online courses that aren't MOOCs either: 1. Allow a limited number of students to sign up for a run of the class, which is on a specific schedule, and there's high interaction with and feedback from other students and the instructor. 2. Allow unlimited students to sign up, often at any time, but at most there's a forum or mailing list for participants to interact with each other. Many are just a series of videos or a…