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Re: Coursera to combine with Udemy

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Post by modeless »

criddell wrote: post #37

What are the best online courses you’ve taken? On Coursera, I did Andrew Ng’s machine learning course and Dan Boneh’s cryptography course and both were excellent. Time well spent IMHO. The next thing I want to take is a WinDbg course. Udemy has one that looks pretty good. I should probably also find a modern assembly language course…

Geoff Hinton's 2012 Coursera course "Neural Networks for Machine Learning" was incredible. Anyone who took that course got in on the ground floor of deep learning just when it was about to take off. It certainly changed the course of my career.

To give an idea of how cutting-edge it was at the time, the well-known RMSProp optimizer was unpublished work that Hinton presented in the course, and people had to cite the presentation slides when they used it in papers published later.

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Post by ghaff »

edent wrote: post #167
azangru wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Those courses that were basically “we’re a top university and we let someone record the class from the back” were a literal life changer. Honestly, that was all I wanted. Does anyone remember what happened to UC Berkeley? They had a lot of their courses recorded and uploaded to youtube; an absolute joy. Then, some [beep] sued them for not making the recording accessible enough, i.e. not providing captions alongside…

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Machine transcriptions are obviously better than they used to be. But requiring perfect human transcriptions in this day and age would IMO be unreasonable for most purposes.

Certainly machine transcriptions are used these days for purposes that most intelligent people would judge to be perfectly reasonable.

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Post by BeFlatXIII »

edent wrote: post #167
azangru wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Those courses that were basically “we’re a top university and we let someone record the class from the back” were a literal life changer. Honestly, that was all I wanted. Does anyone remember what happened to UC Berkeley? They had a lot of their courses recorded and uploaded to youtube; an absolute joy. Then, some [beep] sued them for not making the recording accessible enough, i.e. not providing captions alongside…

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So the rest of the world should have the access removed out of some delusion of fairness?

Re: Coursera to combine with Udemy

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Post by chrisweekly »

layer8 wrote: post #127
chrisweekly wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(meta: genuinely curious why my observation was downvoted. I may take a further karma hit for mentioning it but worth it if it elicits a meaningful response. what gives?)

I didn’t downvote you, but lifetime offerings tend to be a red flag.

Agreed! (That's why I mentioned it in the context of TFA.) Thanks for replying tho

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Post by tourmalinetaco »

edent wrote: post #167
azangru wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Those courses that were basically “we’re a top university and we let someone record the class from the back” were a literal life changer. Honestly, that was all I wanted. Does anyone remember what happened to UC Berkeley? They had a lot of their courses recorded and uploaded to youtube; an absolute joy. Then, some [beep] sued them for not making the recording accessible enough, i.e. not providing captions alongside…

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So if 4% of the population cannot partake, then the other 96% should be barred from participating?

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Post by cindyllm »

wat10000 wrote: post #129
robotresearcher wrote: post #70

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I tried that out in my field of expertise, to calibrate my expectations. ChatGPT invented multiple references to non-existent but plausibly-titled papers written by me . I think of that when asking questions about areas I don’t know. That was about 18mo ago, so maybe this kind of hallucination is under control these days.

LLMs are good for tasks where you can verify the result. And you must verify the result unless you're just using it for entertainment.

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Re: Coursera to combine with Udemy

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Post by chrisweekly »

azemetre wrote: post #94
chrisweekly wrote: post #49

This same week, Egghead ( https://egghead.io ) started offering $500 lifetime access to everything they ever made or will make. There's definitely some excellent material in their catalog. But the signals sure seem to point toward the decline of centralized human-created coursework.

Egghead.io is not worth it, the courses there have a shelf life even shorter than frontendmasters. Authors mostly use it to dump their wares then never update the course afterwards while breaking API changes litter their backlog making most content, unless it was released in the last 3 months, worthless. Absolutely not worth it since the courses are on par with random youtube tutorials IMO. Also really dislike the pa…

Thanks for replying. Agreed on shelf life, but IME at least some of the egghead materials, at the time of publication, have been worthwhile to me. But that experience (5+ years ago) is quite possibly out of date.

Re: Coursera to combine with Udemy

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Post by nkmnz »

jspann wrote: post #166
nkmnz wrote: post #114

Udemy never sold knowledge. They are selling that feeling of a new beginning, of a better future, of FINALLY doing (buying!!!) that course you always wanted to finish. 50% of buyers don't even finish the first video.

> 50% of buyers don't even finish the first video. Just wondering - Is that a guess or a backed up statistic? Would be eye opening if that really was the case

I stand corrected! It's 52% that don't even START the first video![0] Other studies report that number at 35%.[1]

One thing that's more consistent are average completion rates hovering around 5%.

[0] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aav7958 as cited by [1]

[1] https://openpraxis.org/articles/606/files/66d16716e6c09.pdf

Re: Coursera to combine with Udemy

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Post by sesm »

criddell wrote: post #37

What are the best online courses you’ve taken? On Coursera, I did Andrew Ng’s machine learning course and Dan Boneh’s cryptography course and both were excellent. Time well spent IMHO. The next thing I want to take is a WinDbg course. Udemy has one that looks pretty good. I should probably also find a modern assembly language course…

Discrete Optimization by Pascal Van Hentenryck was a real gem.
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