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Checked 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.
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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.
Although 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?
No. The ugly truth is that these courses will be useless to 99% of the people. Machine learning is dominated by big corporations with gigantic amounts of data and processing power. If you want to work in one of them or create competing ML companies you need pedigree (a PhD from a well know university), and those guys arent taking courses with fake credentials. You could use ML in your job/company but then you dont ne…
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No. The ugly truth is that these courses will be useless to 99% of the people. Machine learning is dominated by big corporations with gigantic amounts of data and processing power. If you want to work in one of them or create competing ML companies you need pedigree (a PhD from a well know university), and those guys arent taking courses with fake credentials. You could use ML in your job/company but then you dont ne…
Or maybe people want to understand what's going on under the hood of the ML products they use?
Although 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?
No. The ugly truth is that these courses will be useless to 99% of the people. Machine learning is dominated by big corporations with gigantic amounts of data and processing power. If you want to work in one of them or create competing ML companies you need pedigree (a PhD from a well know university), and those guys arent taking courses with fake credentials. You could use ML in your job/company but then you dont ne…
ML product?
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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.
I wish someone would make "MATLAB with all its toolboxes, but with python syntax, in a colab-like IDE".
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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.
So sad to hear Mariah disparaged. I’m an Gen X engineer and Matlab is one of our first languages. Use it today still in aerospace but I would imagine Python suits software shops much better. Does Python handle matrix math as well?
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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.
So sad to hear Mariah disparaged. I’m an Gen X engineer and Matlab is one of our first languages. Use it today still in aerospace but I would imagine Python suits software shops much better. Does Python handle matrix math as well?