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Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera

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most of the courses on coursera are for uninitiated and have very shallow content (there are some rare exception). So if you like you can search for a good book or some video lecture from good university. like this is for statistical learning " https://online.stanford.edu/courses/sohs-ystatslearning-stat...

I think you are generalising too much, there are also some good courses on Coursera. But many are more shallow than e.g. EdX, which has some excellent more in depth courses.

Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera

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Here is a list of all Coursera courses sorted by ratings: https://www.classcentral.com/provider/coursera?sort=rating-u... You can also filter by subjects i.e Computer Science, Data Science. Humanities, Mathematics, etc. Disclaimer: I am the founder.

Is there a plan to get more advanced courses? I'm asking because there seems to be an extreme bias towards beginners courses, or content that is rather limited in breadth and depth compared to what a university might teach during a full masters degree. ie, there's about 50 security intro courses (with lots of overlap of course), one "advanced" course that's been delayed for long and isn't all that advanced (Crypto II…

There should be less ratings of advanced materials, and there should be less coursework. Advanced study is the long tail of learning.

Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera

#73

Here is a list of all Coursera courses sorted by ratings: https://www.classcentral.com/provider/coursera?sort=rating-u... You can also filter by subjects i.e Computer Science, Data Science. Humanities, Mathematics, etc. Disclaimer: I am the founder.

Many thanks! This is a gem. Within a few minutes, I've seen interesting courses that Google search never found for me.

Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera

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Let me recommend you an udacity course instead. This is hands down the best course I've ever taken in my life: AI for Trading https://www.udacity.com/course/ai-for-trading--nd880 Includes an introduction to finance/markets, and goes into strategies, multi-factor models, and deep learning. Great projects too!

Wait, how did you make both notes in org and HTML? Can you write org mode notes and compile them to HTML? Is that it?

Or did you really write it twice?

(I've never used Emacs)

Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera

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University of Pennsylvania has an amazing course on single variable calculus.

Don't let the idea of doing 'basic' calculus turn you away as it is an incredibly tough course. The reason it can be so challenging and the reason I find it so incredible is that it teaches Calculus through the lenses of Taylor Series. Very different to other Calculus courses and as someone who hated my first year university maths course it's helped me really come to appreciate the beauty of it!

Here's the link to the first course of 5:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/single-variable-calculus

Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera

#78

University of Pennsylvania has an amazing course on single variable calculus. Don't let the idea of doing 'basic' calculus turn you away as it is an incredibly tough course. The reason it can be so challenging and the reason I find it so incredible is that it teaches Calculus through the lenses of Taylor Series. Very different to other Calculus courses and as someone who hated my first year university maths course it…

Ran through this series a number of years ago while I was trying my best to self-study my way to a CS bachelor's equivalent; highly recommended. I'd taken calculus in various forms before and always loved it but this one made me think about the material in a completely different light.

Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera

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I'm currently taking the course "Audio Signal Processing for Music Applications", a joint course from the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and Stanford, taught mainly by one of the leading figures in music technology, Xavier Serra.

I think the pacing is great even for people who are not yet into DSP; every lecture teaches fundamental concepts that build on top of each other, and many insightful examples are given (listening to waveforms, looking at spectrograms). I'm now in week 5 (I just watch the lectures at my own pace, e.g. so far I don't need the programming part of the course), and I've already learned a lot.

Re: Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera

#80

University of Pennsylvania has an amazing course on single variable calculus. Don't let the idea of doing 'basic' calculus turn you away as it is an incredibly tough course. The reason it can be so challenging and the reason I find it so incredible is that it teaches Calculus through the lenses of Taylor Series. Very different to other Calculus courses and as someone who hated my first year university maths course it…

I strongly recommend Robert Ghrist's other courses as well, they're fantastic.

* Multivariable calculus (a linear algebra based approach, and a very nice intro to differential forms)

* Applied dynamical systems (ongoing, started recently)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5N5pRddyicAX1QJyJjIIdg

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