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Re: OMSCS Open Courseware

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Post by storus »

rs186 wrote: post #48

In the past they made videos available via Udacity, which were removed after Udacity turned their focus to short & easy (which often means superficial) courses for enterprise training instead of "serious" university courses. I guess that was not a viable business. Of course they did not come with any assignments, just like these courses. Can't blame them, but other universities offer much resources -- for the same to…

Udacity recently released their own MS AI though with shaky accreditation via Malta's MFHEA which was recently rejected by EQAR, making it unaccredited abroad.

Re: OMSCS Open Courseware

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Post by storus »

UTexas seems to be crushing it in the ML/AI space as they offer far more recent courses with deeper topics; for everything else OMSCS is probably a better choice even though it has a relentless pace of busywork making even easy classes draining. Stanford OTOH is like GT and UT merged together (both crazy difficult projects and a lot of math), but at 2x the pace. UT is way more relaxing than either, one can take 3 courses alongside a job and be fine, which is next to impossible at GT and Stanford. Conversely, if one wants to continue by doing research, Stanford and GT are much more useful due to ample opportunities to do so.

Re: OMSCS Open Courseware

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Post by LTL_FTC »

I have been considering the OMSCS program for some time but one of my reservations is the network one misses out on by working side by side with students and faculty vs online ed.

For context: non-traditional student who transferred to UCSD for college, two of those years were spent during Covid. Moved back to Bay Area. My network isn’t as big as someone who maybe went to San Jose state. And so they prob have an easier time finding jobs. I worked with other students through discord and so on, attended virtual office hours with professors and TAs (who were the reason many of us passed these classes, I’m sure) but never truly built a relationship that lasted beyond the quarter because zoom, essentially.

And if I go back to grad school, I would really love to build relationships with others around me. Wondering how others have managed with this regard?

Re: OMSCS Open Courseware

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Post by hasyimibhar »

dannyfreeman wrote: post #2

I would like to get my masters from georgia tech's omscs program but between work and 2 kids I dont see how I'll ever have the time

I completed OMSCS with 2 kids (both preschool), taking 1 class per semester from Fall 2019 to Spring 2023. It was possible thanks to having full remote job and a very supportive wife. I learned a lot, but I probably wouldn't do it again, it was extremely unhealthy, especially for certain classes like Distributed Computing (CS7210).

Re: OMSCS Open Courseware

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Post by sthu11182 »

Jtsummers wrote: post #46
bubblethink wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think OMSCS is that selective. Get a couple of letters from your former professors and/or bosses. Letters are supplementary, not the sole determinant. More than the letters, they likely care about your GPA and GRE.

They don't even require the GRE. They have a very high acceptance rate but a pretty low completion rate.

Last time I heard (like 3 years ago), the acceptance rate was 80%. The completion rate is much lower.

Re: OMSCS Open Courseware

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Post by bubblethink »

zero-sharp wrote: post #50
grantgallagher wrote: post #9

I’m an OMSCS grad - the dedication to making higher education in CS more accessible is something that really sticks out to me from those in charge (shoutout to Dr. Joyner who heads the program). Although not every course is on the Open Courseware (nor course work), there’s still a lot of good material, and if you like it enough, the program is a nice little side quest in ones journey through computer science.

Hi is there a way to view the lectures in a more traditional way? For example, as one long video? I'm seeing lessons broken up into 2-5 minute long videos.

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Re: OMSCS Open Courseware

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Post by sanufar »

storus wrote: post #52

UTexas seems to be crushing it in the ML/AI space as they offer far more recent courses with deeper topics; for everything else OMSCS is probably a better choice even though it has a relentless pace of busywork making even easy classes draining. Stanford OTOH is like GT and UT merged together (both crazy difficult projects and a lot of math), but at 2x the pace. UT is way more relaxing than either, one can take 3 cou…

Could you elaborate more on continuing with research?

Re: OMSCS Open Courseware

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Post by storus »

sanufar wrote: post #57
storus wrote: post #52

UTexas seems to be crushing it in the ML/AI space as they offer far more recent courses with deeper topics; for everything else OMSCS is probably a better choice even though it has a relentless pace of busywork making even easy classes draining. Stanford OTOH is like GT and UT merged together (both crazy difficult projects and a lot of math), but at 2x the pace. UT is way more relaxing than either, one can take 3 cou…

Could you elaborate more on continuing with research?

GT used to have a collaboration with Meta's FAIR and one could do final projects in the DL and NLP classes on recent research topics from Meta AI; some people ended up at top conferences with their work. Not sure how it's going to be now given Meta effectively disbanding FAIR in favor of Wang's Superintelligence. GT also has team research project under VIP (Vertically Integrated Projects) where a prof leads a team of students towards new findings; there are also a bunch of PhD seminars one can take. Stanford has a plenty of CS3xx research classes one can take where the final project has to be some novel research.

Re: OMSCS Open Courseware

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Post by rdudek »

guiambros wrote: post #39

Current OMSCS grad student; three down, seven to go. Loving the program so far. The content is great, and most of it is available on Open Courseware, YT, etc, but here's what else you get by officially going through the program: - the amazing community of TAs - the assignments - the feedback on reports & projects (either automated, or through TAs) - the collaboration with other students on Ed, Discord, Slack, etc - t…

You'll get there! Some of them you can take two at a time. I myself only need 3 more!

Re: OMSCS Open Courseware

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Post by jay3ss »

zero-sharp wrote: post #43
guiambros wrote: post #39

Current OMSCS grad student; three down, seven to go. Loving the program so far. The content is great, and most of it is available on Open Courseware, YT, etc, but here's what else you get by officially going through the program: - the amazing community of TAs - the assignments - the feedback on reports & projects (either automated, or through TAs) - the collaboration with other students on Ed, Discord, Slack, etc - t…

In reference to the open courseware, is there a way to either just download all of the videos in bulk, or view them as part of a single video? It looks like they're broken down into ~2 minute long video clips through the Ed platform, which is very annoying.

You can download the lectures from many of the courses, but not all, from the site.
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