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MIT lecture series on deep learning in January 2020

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Re: MIT lecture series on deep learning in January 2020

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Wow, even an MIT subdomain gets the hug of death?

A lot of MIT subdomains are hosted by students. A MIT subdomain getting enough traffic to bring it down isn't surprising in itself. It's that this one is hosted by the administration itself (seemingly) that makes it notable.

Re: MIT lecture series on deep learning in January 2020

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I feel like there's about 1000 hours of high quality AI lectures available for free on the internet and while I do believe in a certain amount of selflessness in education, I am skeptical that any of that is providing more than a glimpse of what you need to know to be productive at it. In other words, there's a thousand hours of material out there, which probably takes 10000 hours to actually get into so you might as well put all that effort into properly studying it at a university, getting the knowledge not covered in the lectures alone and a degree to prove it in the end.

If you're just "curious" about AI, a really good half hour lecture should get you up to speed.

Re: MIT lecture series on deep learning in January 2020

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I feel like there's about 1000 hours of high quality AI lectures available for free on the internet and while I do believe in a certain amount of selflessness in education, I am skeptical that any of that is providing more than a glimpse of what you need to know to be productive at it. In other words, there's a thousand hours of material out there, which probably takes 10000 hours to actually get into so you might as…

Why do you have to go to university to properly study machine learning?
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