Stanford to host more online classes

Post by jberryman » Thu, Nov 17, 2011, 5:46 PM UTC

karpathy wrote: post #27

plinkplonk wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

" I'm a CS PhD student at Stanford and I am a (voluntary) co-creator of the programming assignments for the current ML class. It is a lot of work, but the way I see it, we only have to put great assignments together a single time, and thousands of people can enjoy them and benefit from them for years and years to come. That is what I call time well spent." As a consumer of Stanford's online classes(though not the ML…

thanks, I should add (and I hope this is somewhat obvious) that there is a team of about 7 or 8 of us in total. A lot of work goes into site/technical/video processing etc, and then there are 2.5 of us making the assignments. The real hero behind the assignments is Jiquan Ngiam ( http://cs.stanford.edu/~jngiam/ ) who is in charge and does most of the work. He is awesome, brilliant, very hard working, and I thoroughly…

Post by alanav » Thu, Nov 17, 2011, 5:55 PM UTC

Post by learc83 » Thu, Nov 17, 2011, 6:10 PM UTC

karpathy wrote: post #9

I get easily excited about education-related topics so I may be over-reacting, but I think these classes will jump-start an educational revolution, and that people will start to fully appreciate just how inefficient traditional teaching methods are. Some people like to say that this is nothing new because video lectures were posted on the internet for several years now (for example MIT Open Courseware etc.), but I th…

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 17, 2011, 6:15 PM UTC

dudurocha wrote: post #49

For me, as a brazilian computer engineering student, I think these classes are amazing. Although I study in one of the best computer schools in brazil ( www.cin.ufpe.br), my classes tend to be bad and boring. My teachers have Phd's and all those letters, but cant teach in a good and engaging way. And my classes have old subjects, because they made the curriculum 10 years ago. Thank you so much, Stanford, the teachers…

Post by cgopalan » Thu, Nov 17, 2011, 6:18 PM UTC

learc83 wrote: post #85

karpathy wrote: post #9

I get easily excited about education-related topics so I may be over-reacting, but I think these classes will jump-start an educational revolution, and that people will start to fully appreciate just how inefficient traditional teaching methods are. Some people like to say that this is nothing new because video lectures were posted on the internet for several years now (for example MIT Open Courseware etc.), but I th…

I'm taking the ML class right now, so I want to thank you for taking the time to work on the programming assignments. I was very impressed with the quality and especially how easy it is to submit them.