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Country and language in a single drop-down menu, because in 2020 it's improbable that people born outside of a country speak any other language than their native tongue. Right?
What is weirder (but not the first time I have seen it) is that the list of languages is sorted by country name. German comes before Danish and Dutch after Maltese.
Elements of AI was created as a collaboration by University of Helsinki, the Finnish government and Reactor Innovations, a software consultancy. It was well received by the Finnish general populace. The Finnish government currently acts as the EU presidency, and decided to open access to all Europeans.
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What leads you to believe this is being paid for by your taxes?
Seriously, you expect him to not be Finnish or an EU inhabitant and there not going any EU euros into this project? And his point seems quite right. There are so many MOOCS in this segment, we don't need a government picking winners and paying for translation in a time when a very large part of tertiary education in Europe is already in English. On top of that, given that it's the Finish presidency choosing Helsinki…
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It's the EU. You're not a full citizen (in the social sense) until you know the native language of your country of residence. How Czech are you if you can't hear the cabbies ripping you off?
Regardless to what country I was born in and what country I am a citizen of (by the way there are many full citizens who don't speak the language of the country particularly well, there is no such a thing as non-full citizenship, you either are a citizen or you are not) I have never wanted to study in its language (let alone use localized versions of coding-related software which I perceive as utter bullshit), wherev…
I mean, there's no other language appropriate for working with modern computers (Russian is probably the closest second)[0], but the level of English computer programs require of you, especially cushioned ones like they're exposing to people in this case, tends to be less than native understanding of the language.
[0]: English has a huge advantage because typesetting, typewriting, liberalism, and empire had already greatly simplified the writing system by the time computers were standardizing. It was, from the start of electronic computing, basically trivial to typeset English with simple character series, in a readable form. Anglo typewriting and typesetting conventions were already such that monospaced typewritten ASCII makes decent documents on its own.
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As opposed to 'just English' which is more or less the norm in start-up land?
startup land is silicon valley, usually targeting the US. An AI course targeted at Europe should at least include German, French, Spanish, etc.
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What leads you to believe this is being paid for by your taxes?
Seriously, you expect him to not be Finnish or an EU inhabitant and there not going any EU euros into this project? And his point seems quite right. There are so many MOOCS in this segment, we don't need a government picking winners and paying for translation in a time when a very large part of tertiary education in Europe is already in English. On top of that, given that it's the Finish presidency choosing Helsinki…
Elements of AI was created as a collaboration by University of Helsinki, the Finnish government and Reactor Innovations, a software consultancy. It was well received by the Finnish general populace. The Finnish government currently acts as the EU presidency, and decided to open access to all Europeans.
While I didn't have the time to complete it, their fullstack course seems also very good, has someone completed it that can share their experience?.
Quote from website: "The Finnish Presidency of the Council of the EU has decided to invest in people’s future skills and will make the Elements of AI online course freely available in all official EU languages."
Elements of AI was created as a collaboration by University of Helsinki, the Finnish government and Reactor Innovations, a software consultancy. It was well received by the Finnish general populace. The Finnish government currently acts as the EU presidency, and decided to open access to all Europeans.
That's great, it would be even better if it was open to everyone, you know, in line with EU values (democracy, education for all, freedom, etc.) :/