Earlier quoted context omitted.
10 bucks says it's python
“Graded assignments and lectures have been rebuilt to teach in Python instead of Octave“
I almost forgot it was in Octave. I had done it when it was offered for the first time by stanford.
Andrew Ng updates his Machine Learning course
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Re: Andrew Ng updates his Machine Learning course
#12Checked if he moved it away from Matlab, and yes he did! That's what steered me away from his course.
The programming assignments were one or two lines in Octave. They'll turn into 10 lines of Python with indentation errors. Python is a worse pedagogical language for any course in applied linear algebra.
OTOH, the time I spent learning Octave/Matlab for Andrew Ng's course was 100% wasted time, because I've never used it again in the 10+ years since I took the class, whereas time spent learning Python would've been useful to me in myriad other ways.
Re: Andrew Ng updates his Machine Learning course
#13Does anybody know if it is still free? I took this course and Dan Boneh's cryptography course and both were truly excellent.
They say you can "audit" the course for free, but they employ a ton of grey patterns to get you to pay for it. I haven't been able to find out where to audit it yet.
Update: You have to go into the individual courses within the specialization and the enroll popup will have an audit option.
First Course is here: https://www.coursera.org/learn/neural-networks-deep-learning...
Re: Andrew Ng updates his Machine Learning course
#14Checked if he moved it away from Matlab, and yes he did! That's what steered me away from his course.
The programming assignments were one or two lines in Octave. They'll turn into 10 lines of Python with indentation errors. Python is a worse pedagogical language for any course in applied linear algebra.
The programming assignments in the original course were mostly useless. They provided you with a template with 90% of the problem solved, and you just had to enter an equation to solve the problem.
Re: Andrew Ng updates his Machine Learning course
#15Although this is the best course on ML, is it really practical for anything? Has anyone built products for things they’ve learned from this course?
Re: Andrew Ng updates his Machine Learning course
#16Does anybody know if it is still free? I took this course and Dan Boneh's cryptography course and both were truly excellent.
They say you can "audit" the course for free, but they employ a ton of grey patterns to get you to pay for it. I haven't been able to find out where to audit it yet. Update: You have to go into the individual courses within the specialization and the enroll popup will have an audit option. First Course is here: https://www.coursera.org/learn/neural-networks-deep-learning...
IIRC you need to pay if you want your assignments to be (auto-)graded.
Re: Andrew Ng updates his Machine Learning course
#17Does anybody know if it is still free? I took this course and Dan Boneh's cryptography course and both were truly excellent.
They say you can "audit" the course for free, but they employ a ton of grey patterns to get you to pay for it. I haven't been able to find out where to audit it yet. Update: You have to go into the individual courses within the specialization and the enroll popup will have an audit option. First Course is here: https://www.coursera.org/learn/neural-networks-deep-learning...
That link says "Enroll for Free" and no audit button. Maybe it's because I'm not logged in?
Re: Andrew Ng updates his Machine Learning course
#18Does anybody know if it is still free? I took this course and Dan Boneh's cryptography course and both were truly excellent.
I'll ask the opposite question.. how much do these courses cost? Some quick googling has led me to Coursera, but their pricing model seems a bit obtuse. So if they're going to try and grey-pattern me into paying i'm trying to understand how much i would pay. I don't care about a degree from these places, i'd just like to learn.
(specifically the crypto course sounds interesting)
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Re: Andrew Ng updates his Machine Learning course
#20Checked if he moved it away from Matlab, and yes he did! That's what steered me away from his course.
The programming assignments were one or two lines in Octave. They'll turn into 10 lines of Python with indentation errors. Python is a worse pedagogical language for any course in applied linear algebra.
Yes - learn yet another language in the Tower of Babel of languages that will be useless after this course. There's a reason he switched to Python.