It seems that this was sent to students with 100% aggregate score up to this point (after dropping the bottom two quizes). One acquaintance had 1 wrong in aggregate and another had 0 wrong in aggregate but two imperfect quizes, and only the latter claims to have received the letter.
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
#22Sadly, 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.
I don't know the numbers for the ML class and the format is a bit different, however, for DB class from the many people that were signed up only 9180 took the midterm[1] and (only 908 got scores >= 18/20) So if ML numbers are in any way similar to this maybe it wouldn't be so bad. That is if there was such a letter. I'll add that Professor Widom's style is quite engaging as well. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL…
The db midterm had a max score of 18, not 20. But I agree with the intentions of your post.
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#23Is this for real? Can anyone verify that this letter was in fact sent out?
Yes, I received one, and it's from the same stanford.edu email address that sent the letter congratulating people on perfect 100s after homework 4.
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#24As someone doing the course i would say its a decent way to identify some candidates but it wont be a really high correlation. It depends a lot on the time you have to invest and how rigorously you go through your answers and study the material the questions are drawn from. Some programming challenges would be great to better separate whether people really understood the material despite being harder to mark.
Personally I've always got a bit wrong in most of he homeworks but usually felt that while I understood the material I didn't recite enough time to rigorously check my answers and rewatch the materials to pick up on some of the subtle things you need to remember or some questions.
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#25It seems that this was sent to students with 100% aggregate score up to this point (after dropping the bottom two quizes). One acquaintance had 1 wrong in aggregate and another had 0 wrong in aggregate but two imperfect quizes, and only the latter claims to have received the letter.
From what I've seen I think they are taking all scores, I've heard from someone who got 6 100s and didn't get it, but he didn't attempt the last 2 quizes b/c he already had 6 100s.
I made 6 100's, a 98, and a 97, and a 100 on the midterm and I got it.
Re: Job placement program for top students in Stanford's online AI class
#26As someone doing the course i would say its a decent way to identify some candidates but it wont be a really high correlation. It depends a lot on the time you have to invest and how rigorously you go through your answers and study the material the questions are drawn from. Some programming challenges would be great to better separate whether people really understood the material despite being harder to mark. Persona…
They are also looking for people to work with Professor Thrun's company. So maybe they are looking for people who are passionate about the class.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know the numbers for the ML class and the format is a bit different, however, for DB class from the many people that were signed up only 9180 took the midterm[1] and (only 908 got scores >= 18/20) So if ML numbers are in any way similar to this maybe it wouldn't be so bad. That is if there was such a letter. I'll add that Professor Widom's style is quite engaging as well. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL…
The db midterm had a max score of 18, not 20. But I agree with the intentions of your post.
That's right, I confused the final with the midterm.
Re: Job placement program for top students in Stanford's online AI class
#28As someone doing the course i would say its a decent way to identify some candidates but it wont be a really high correlation. It depends a lot on the time you have to invest and how rigorously you go through your answers and study the material the questions are drawn from. Some programming challenges would be great to better separate whether people really understood the material despite being harder to mark. Persona…
They may be trying to collect resumes (and job placement performance) from the top 1000 students to see what the correlation is. If they can prove that correlation, then they could essentially run the courses as a recruiting tool for paying companies.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have only the best possible things to say about the video lectures, but the lab assignments are just too easy. For something that is supposed to be the advanced track, I was hoping that they would do something more than "take this description of the function, implement it in Octave, make it pass our tests". Of course, I know it's their first class and you can't get everything perfect right off the bat. But I'd love…
I agree the programming assignments have been very easy. However, I doubt they have the bandwidth to manually grade thousands of assignments. Given the scale of the class, the grading is forces to be automated. It's hard to come up with such assignments and even harder to make them challenging, given an automated grading script.
Ironic that the class is about AI, no?
Re: Job placement program for top students in Stanford's online AI class
#30Surprised no-one brought it up yet: What I'd like to know is if anyone involved with the class is getting a referral bonus for bringing candidates to companies...
Follow up is how we feel about that...