Stanfords cryptography 1 course is fantastic, highly recommend. Apparently a more advanced one (crypto 2) is coming out October-ish too.
Ask HN: Which Coursera courses/specializations you recommend?
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Re: Ask HN: Which Coursera courses/specializations you recommend?
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I will treat this as a real question. The answer in my case is yes. Many, many senior executives, founders and owners benefit from coaching, and pay at times thousands per hour to be coached. In fact a famous coach in Silicon Valley was so well loved his coachees (including google founders) wrote a book about him to thank him. To paraphrase Dune, the first lesson is learning how to learn. Put another way, an insightf…
It's a serious question. I see virtually every "coach" as a scam artist who would be doing what they coach if they could. The few legitimate coaches out there are prohibitively expensive. Of course, that's just my take on it.
I think it works the same way that a psychologist works. You’re partially paying them to just be an impartial generator of feedback. You cannot get that anywhere within your organization or circle of friends.
Re: Ask HN: Which Coursera courses/specializations you recommend?
#53Why is almost every answer on this thread is related to Machine Learning. The question was about programming. There is 3 part series from University of Washington on programming languages covering Standard ML, Racket and Ruby. It compares and contrasts functional programming and Object oriented programming in detail by teaching 3 different languages. I believe this is a great resource to start with. Here is the link.…
I did part of the ML course. I've been pondering over which language to choose to advance my functional programming journey. I've been torn between choosing Lispy variants such as Scheme, Racket, Clojure etc or the ML variants such Scala, SML, OCaml, F# or go nuts and do Haskell! :D But I'm a data analyst by profession and I'm 35 years old. So I need to choose something wisely. I'm studying statistics at the moment and the most wise choice for me is R. I already do some work on Python. R is based on Scheme and has a lot of functional aspects. Some of the answers related to Machine Learning here are relevant to me. But for the question, I also believe the Washington University course is a strong contender. Hopefully, I'll have the time in future to learn some of it.
Re: Ask HN: Which Coursera courses/specializations you recommend?
#54As it happens I have catalogued and ranked all mentions of Coursera courses on Hacker News - you'll note that many of the mentions in this current discussion appear there as well. HN Academy: https://yahnd.com/academy/ I've also more recently done the same thing with mentions of Coursera on Reddit: https://reddsera.com Hope it helps!
Great job!! I looked at your HN profile & it looks like you’ve a knack for similar websites that compile information from comment threads.
I suppose you’re using NLP, specifically NER. Is there a blogpost that details your general approach? Or could you suggest how to extract such information from threads?
Re: Ask HN: Which Coursera courses/specializations you recommend?
#55As it happens I have catalogued and ranked all mentions of Coursera courses on Hacker News - you'll note that many of the mentions in this current discussion appear there as well. HN Academy: https://yahnd.com/academy/ I've also more recently done the same thing with mentions of Coursera on Reddit: https://reddsera.com Hope it helps!
I'd be very wary about this kind of resource given that Coursera is almost completely different from what it was 5 years ago. Some courses have been removed. More things have been pay-gated, including automated test suites for programming assignments.
A comment from HN years ago about a Coursera course may well be misleading in 2020.
Re: Ask HN: Which Coursera courses/specializations you recommend?
#56I have completed both of the following: 1) https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn 2) https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning I highly recommend both of them, if they cover a subject you're interested in, though if you only have time for one, they are listed in descending priority order. Given how low it's time+energy requirements are, and how large the pay-off has been, I recommend Learning How…
I did Learning How To Learn twice and I still not sure how helpful it is. The only thing I found useful/applicable is spaced repetition. What part of the course do you feel it's valuable? I don't mind going back to do it again.
The focused vs diffuse thinking part was very useful for me.
Re: Ask HN: Which Coursera courses/specializations you recommend?
#57As it happens I have catalogued and ranked all mentions of Coursera courses on Hacker News - you'll note that many of the mentions in this current discussion appear there as well. HN Academy: https://yahnd.com/academy/ I've also more recently done the same thing with mentions of Coursera on Reddit: https://reddsera.com Hope it helps!
Great job!! I looked at your HN profile & it looks like you’ve a knack for similar websites that compile information from comment threads. I suppose you’re using NLP, specifically NER. Is there a blogpost that details your general approach? Or could you suggest how to extract such information from threads?
Nope - regular expressions all the way. :-) I keep thinking I'll move toward NER but keep finding other ways to find value first. Same answer regarding the blog...
Re: Ask HN: Which Coursera courses/specializations you recommend?
#58As it happens I have catalogued and ranked all mentions of Coursera courses on Hacker News - you'll note that many of the mentions in this current discussion appear there as well. HN Academy: https://yahnd.com/academy/ I've also more recently done the same thing with mentions of Coursera on Reddit: https://reddsera.com Hope it helps!
I'd be very wary about this kind of resource given that Coursera is almost completely different from what it was 5 years ago. Some courses have been removed. More things have been pay-gated, including automated test suites for programming assignments. A comment from HN years ago about a Coursera course may well be misleading in 2020.
Very true. I try to mitigate this in some ways on my site, but it is certainly not perfect.
Re: Ask HN: Which Coursera courses/specializations you recommend?
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
I did Learning How To Learn twice and I still not sure how helpful it is. The only thing I found useful/applicable is spaced repetition. What part of the course do you feel it's valuable? I don't mind going back to do it again.
The focused vs diffuse thinking part was very useful for me.
How do you apply this? Let's say we want to learn a new programming language. I should spend time focus on a topic, then how do I apply diffused thinking here?
Re: Ask HN: Which Coursera courses/specializations you recommend?
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
The focused vs diffuse thinking part was very useful for me.
How do you apply this? Let's say we want to learn a new programming language. I should spend time focus on a topic, then how do I apply diffused thinking here?
I learned to value physical activity for diffuse thinking, and related to it when I unconsciously feel the urge get up and walked around the room when thinking about some subjects I've learned.