Job placement program for top students in Stanford's online AI class
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Re: Job placement program for top students in Stanford's online AI class
#2Sadly, I'm not expecting any such letter from Ng's ML class, because I'll bet there's 10k people tied for top marks.
That's at least partly due to an extremely effective teaching system and style, so I'd say it's a worthwhile tradeoff.
Re: Job placement program for top students in Stanford's online AI class
#3It would be interesting to know what data they use for these kinds of assessments outside the given ones for the course, that is the best 6 homeworks out of 8 account for 30% of the grade, the midterm for 30% and the final exam for 40%.
Re: Job placement program for top students in Stanford's online AI class
#4A program like this is a great way to promote cheating.
Re: Job placement program for top students in Stanford's online AI class
#5Sadly, I'm not expecting any such letter from Ng's ML class, because I'll bet there's 10k people tied for top marks. That's at least partly due to an extremely effective teaching system and style, so I'd say it's a worthwhile tradeoff.
Yes. The online ML class method is extremely effective and efficient too. After two months I'm able to apply ML to the most common problems without any previous background on the topic.
Re: Job placement program for top students in Stanford's online AI class
#6Drat. If I'd known they were going to do that, I'd have made sure I was in the top 1000.
edit: why is this getting voted down? I would expect there are a fair number of people here who took the course with a casual approach, like I did. E.g., I usually watched the lectures early Sunday, then did the homework that night. Then, for those topics that I enjoyed and wanted in more depth, I read the sections in the book on them. This approach is relaxing and fun, but does increase the tendency to make silly mistakes and not catch them (which I in fact have done a few times now).
I am, it turns out, enjoying the material enough that I think I would like, if I ever find myself looking for a job, to find one where I can use this stuff.
Re: Job placement program for top students in Stanford's online AI class
#7Not sure I agree with the correlation that the 'most talented engineers' are those that 'scored highest on the AI class HWs and Exams,' but I certainly wouldn't refuse any of the folks who were able to solve the ApproximateAgent PacMan Search problem in under 30 seconds from joining my team ;)
Its wonderful that Sebastian & Peter are reaching out like this after all they have done so far. Congrats to everyone that slugged it out, and good luck on the final this weekend!
Re: Job placement program for top students in Stanford's online AI class
#8Drat. If I'd known they were going to do that, I'd have made sure I was in the top 1000. edit: why is this getting voted down? I would expect there are a fair number of people here who took the course with a casual approach, like I did. E.g., I usually watched the lectures early Sunday, then did the homework that night. Then, for those topics that I enjoyed and wanted in more depth, I read the sections in the book on…
Is there any way to know how well you are doing (before the end of the course)? I thought I wasn't doing too badly, but with 100000 enrolled students there are bound to be lots who have 100% scores.
Re: Job placement program for top students in Stanford's online AI class
#9Not sure I agree with the correlation that the 'most talented engineers' are those that 'scored highest on the AI class HWs and Exams,' but I certainly wouldn't refuse any of the folks who were able to solve the ApproximateAgent PacMan Search problem in under 30 seconds from joining my team ;) Its wonderful that Sebastian & Peter are reaching out like this after all they have done so far. Congrats to everyone that sl…
Which one was the PacMan question again (unit/homework number)?
Re: Job placement program for top students in Stanford's online AI class
#10Well, I haven't received any such email and my score in the class is 98% so far (with only the final exam pending this week).
I expected that around 10,000 people would have a perfect score in the class given my experience with Asian participation in online programming contests. There are a few countries in that part of the world where organizing a group to check each others' work and ensuring perfect scores is common and encouraged even when the official requirement is to do your own work. And those happen to be countries filled with millions of smart people. India, China, and Russia seem to be the heart of the phenomenon. Google, Facebook, and Topcoder have systems to deal with it but ai-class.org does not.
Anyway I'm neither surprised nor disappointed not to be in the top sliver. I'm not hireable anyway. It's funny that there is an identifiable top 1,000 at all instead of 10k+ perfect scores.