Stanford NLP and PGM courses delayed

#1

Post by dman » Sat, Jan 21, 2012, 12:32 AM UTC

Stanford NLP and PGM courses delayed
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#2

Post by mark_l_watson » Sat, Jan 21, 2012, 1:22 AM UTC

Useful post, thanks. I am also signed up for those two classes and was expecting them to start on Manday. That said, free is free, so I can be patient :-)

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Post by hsmyers » Sat, Jan 21, 2012, 1:38 AM UTC

Same thing (I think---it is not clear from the email I got) happened to the Anatomy class I signed up for. That at least had a date (March sometime; I forget) assigned to it. Sort of makes you wonder what is going on behind the curtains?

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Post by tiptup » Sat, Jan 21, 2012, 1:41 AM UTC

Got the same email for ML and Model Thinking. You just got to wonder what's causing the hold up - lawyers, Stanford, system?

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Post by brown9-2 » Sat, Jan 21, 2012, 1:46 AM UTC

"Cryptography" and "Design and Analysis of Algorithms" also. Wonder if the cause is higher than expected demand and a need to ramp up the service.

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Post by rabidsnail » Sat, Jan 21, 2012, 2:19 AM UTC

hsmyers wrote: post #3

Same thing (I think---it is not clear from the email I got) happened to the Anatomy class I signed up for. That at least had a date (March sometime; I forget) assigned to it. Sort of makes you wonder what is going on behind the curtains?

I also got the same email for the Machine Learning course. I think they're sending them out for all of the courses that were scheduled to start in January.

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Post by pheaduch » Sat, Jan 21, 2012, 3:11 AM UTC

I got the emails for Model Thinking and Tech Entrep.

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Post by Rickasaurus » Sat, Jan 21, 2012, 3:22 AM UTC

I'm happy to wait and have a better course for sure!

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Post by wisty » Sat, Jan 21, 2012, 5:15 AM UTC

I suspect there's been an executive brain freeze, while they assess the impact of Apple's iTunes U or iText or whatever. Guys, it's a 1.0 Apple product. It won't make a difference until 2.0 next year, or 3.0 the year after. Apple's like Microsoft - they take 3 attempts to get anything right, but they limit the scope of 1.0 rather than making it suck.

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Post by gammarator » Sat, Jan 21, 2012, 5:32 AM UTC

I didn't get this email for PGM, even though I'm enrolled. Strange...