Would be cool if they had an online/remote version of it and offered M.S. world-wide. Hey MIT, you up for some large-scale experiments in humanities?
M.I.T. Plans College for Artificial Intelligence, Backed by $1B
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#22College of Statistics and Nonlinear Function Approximation
Unfortunately, I think statistics will continue to be under-appreciated. All of my mathematics professors in undergraduate said that statistics and linear algebra are the two most useful fields of math to know and that dedicating time to studying them will pay dividends. It still surprises me when I apply for jobs today how few places, even financial or scientific firms, distinguish between statistics and mathematics…
Probably MIT needs to give you a call to check if their program conforms your high standards /s.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Both. Undergrads have certain humanities requirements to fulfill - obviously some are natural fans, others treat it like an "eat your broccoli" requirement. Independent of requirements, MIT also has a fairly good reputation for philosophy, political science, linguistics, media studies, and a few other areas.
Ya, also Noam Chomsky, who has a bit of infamy, is an MIT professor of linguistics.
Interesting that you choose to remark on Chomsky's political views rather than the fact that he is one of the most influential (and highly cited) academics in modern history.
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#24They could call it the MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
But what number will it get? 6.4? 23? (Also, 13 and 19 are unused.) Or will it go the way of STS?
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Both. Undergrads have certain humanities requirements to fulfill - obviously some are natural fans, others treat it like an "eat your broccoli" requirement. Independent of requirements, MIT also has a fairly good reputation for philosophy, political science, linguistics, media studies, and a few other areas.
Ya, also Noam Chomsky, who has a bit of infamy, is an MIT professor of linguistics.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Both. Undergrads have certain humanities requirements to fulfill - obviously some are natural fans, others treat it like an "eat your broccoli" requirement. Independent of requirements, MIT also has a fairly good reputation for philosophy, political science, linguistics, media studies, and a few other areas.
Ya, also Noam Chomsky, who has a bit of infamy, is an MIT professor of linguistics.
Last year he took a position at Arizona.
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#27Or when the hype become political
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#28Would be cool if they had an online/remote version of it and offered M.S. world-wide. Hey MIT, you up for some large-scale experiments in humanities?
I’m guessing they probably don’t want it to become like the Georgia Tech rent-a-MS.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately, I think statistics will continue to be under-appreciated. All of my mathematics professors in undergraduate said that statistics and linear algebra are the two most useful fields of math to know and that dedicating time to studying them will pay dividends. It still surprises me when I apply for jobs today how few places, even financial or scientific firms, distinguish between statistics and mathematics…
Pretty sure MIT offers stats and linear algebra.
I don't doubt it and I don't doubt that M.I.T. will create an intensive AI college. My point was that a lot of universities, even distinguished ones, are recognizing that there's a real demand and hype for "AI/Data Science" degrees and in an effort to maximize enrollment and appeal they often minimize the mathematical and statistical requirements.
I don't believe that you need an advanced degree to become a component ML engineer, but the math/stats is necessary pre-requisite and these pre-reqs are often poorly defined. At my college, the only pre-req to the graduate-level ML course was the freshman level intro to stats class and multivariable calculus. About 50% of the class dropped when they realized they didn't know how to construct Gaussian models or perform convex optimization.
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#30College of Statistics and Nonlinear Function Approximation
Unfortunately, I think statistics will continue to be under-appreciated. All of my mathematics professors in undergraduate said that statistics and linear algebra are the two most useful fields of math to know and that dedicating time to studying them will pay dividends. It still surprises me when I apply for jobs today how few places, even financial or scientific firms, distinguish between statistics and mathematics…
Applied stats is much easier than ML