I'm confused, not a single one of these courses covers Ruby?
It's a list of courses in computer science, not computer programming.
Advanced Computer Science Courses
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Re: Advanced Computer Science Courses
#42A list of links, any of which is easily googleable. Why do people upvote these so predictably?
you need to know what to search for
I don't think that's why. I think it's typical linkbait.
Anyone who is serious about learning will follow the obvious trails of references in papers they read, course listings and book requirements for those courses at university websites, Wikipedia links, and so on. Anybody who found HN can find CS courses.
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you need to know what to search for
I don't think that's why. I think it's typical linkbait. Anyone who is serious about learning will follow the obvious trails of references in papers they read, course listings and book requirements for those courses at university websites, Wikipedia links, and so on. Anybody who found HN can find CS courses.
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you need to know what to search for
I don't think that's why. I think it's typical linkbait. Anyone who is serious about learning will follow the obvious trails of references in papers they read, course listings and book requirements for those courses at university websites, Wikipedia links, and so on. Anybody who found HN can find CS courses.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
you need to know what to search for
I don't think that's why. I think it's typical linkbait. Anyone who is serious about learning will follow the obvious trails of references in papers they read, course listings and book requirements for those courses at university websites, Wikipedia links, and so on. Anybody who found HN can find CS courses.
If you'd look closely these resources are grouped around a single topic, and carefully selected by an expert in a highly specialized field. It saves me, personally, a ton of time reading marginal papers and browsing through a clusterfuck of references.
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251 is far harder than any undergraduate math course at CMU. I had to register an account just to say one thing ... BULLSHIT. Math Studies was an order of magnitude harder than 251. Even factoring in the two homeworks and lectures of math studies, it's still a night and day difference. I took both last semester, and halfassed 251 and did well. There's no possible way to do that with math studies. Just read your profi…
I considered adding an exception, but then I remembered Math Studies is really two classes. I definitely found Math Studies less than twice as hard as 251. Of course, I might also say that I five-sixths assed Math Studies and three-halves-assed 251. Maybe I shouldn't have rushed to make that statement. It certainly made graph theory with Mackey look like kindergarten, but I'm now remembering the stories about graph t…
You can count math studies as up to 5 classes, since that's the number of normal-track classes it covers.
Also, having TA'ed graph theory for pikhurko and mackey, and having TA'ed 251 twice, I still see 251 as the hardest.
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Who the fuck is Jerry? My daddy taught me never to trust name droppers. Also, lol, you read the 251 wiki.
Everyone at CMU knows who Jerry is. For what I read, those were the course notes.
Those weren't the course notes. That's a wiki for (and from) students and TA's, mostly. One semester's course notes are here:https://colormygraph.ugrad.cs.cmu.edu/anupam/
The lecture that discusses finite probability distributions is at: https://colormygraph.ugrad.cs.cmu.edu/site_media/static//cou...
Re: Advanced Computer Science Courses
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I don't think that's why. I think it's typical linkbait. Anyone who is serious about learning will follow the obvious trails of references in papers they read, course listings and book requirements for those courses at university websites, Wikipedia links, and so on. Anybody who found HN can find CS courses.
If you'd look closely these resources are grouped around a single topic, and carefully selected by an expert in a highly specialized field. It saves me, personally, a ton of time reading marginal papers and browsing through a clusterfuck of references.
I did look closely at this list. I commented because it's such a typical example of unearned upvote candy.
I could have assembled this list (as a non-computer scientist) in less than an hour just by looking at the usual places I look for lecture notes and following the typical linkbait-maker advice of leaving a brief comment and headings. The author admits s/he is still working through the material and the details on each are minimal, so this curator ≠ expert.
Nor is the field "highly specialized". arxiv/math.QA is specialised. Welding less-than-1cm aluminium for a particular part in powerboat engines is highly specialised. Computer Science Major is an extremely broad area of study.
To me this is exactly a "clusterf_ck of references".
Re: Advanced Computer Science Courses
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If you'd look closely these resources are grouped around a single topic, and carefully selected by an expert in a highly specialized field. It saves me, personally, a ton of time reading marginal papers and browsing through a clusterfuck of references.
I did look closely at this list. I commented because it's such a typical example of unearned upvote candy. I could have assembled this list (as a non-computer scientist) in less than an hour just by looking at the usual places I look for lecture notes and following the typical linkbait-maker advice of leaving a brief comment and headings. The author admits s/he is still working through the material and the details on…
Ok, I should have renamed it from the original title given by the author to "Excellent List of Distributed Systems and Relevant CS Courses With Good Lecture Notes, Assembled by a University of Cambridge PhD in Mobile Distributed Systems, Zookeeper Committer and a Glorious Systems Engineer Who Lives and Breathes Distributed Systems at Cloudera" to get less upvotes.
Just read the rest of his blog. This is not a trivial list of references that you can compile by googling without thorough understanding of the subject matter, trust me, I've been digging this field for too long [1]
Alternatively you can ask hundreds of people who re-tweeted this link[2], bookmarked it on their Delicious [3], or those who study it now, why did they think it was good. Look at their profiles, what percentage of them are dumb link-followers?
Or simply try to compile and post a list of courses with the same title and see how many upvotes/retweets/bookmarks it gets and how quickly it disappears from the front page if it gets there in the first place. HN users are largely linkbait-averse, that's what I like about this community.
[1] http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-resources-for-learni...
[2] http://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%22advanced%20computer...
[3] http://www.delicious.com/url/6c0121386126295cd80dc3da665267b...
Re: Advanced Computer Science Courses
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I did look closely at this list. I commented because it's such a typical example of unearned upvote candy. I could have assembled this list (as a non-computer scientist) in less than an hour just by looking at the usual places I look for lecture notes and following the typical linkbait-maker advice of leaving a brief comment and headings. The author admits s/he is still working through the material and the details on…
Ok, I should have renamed it from the original title given by the author to "Excellent List of Distributed Systems and Relevant CS Courses With Good Lecture Notes, Assembled by a University of Cambridge PhD in Mobile Distributed Systems, Zookeeper Committer and a Glorious Systems Engineer Who Lives and Breathes Distributed Systems at Cloudera" to get less upvotes. Just read the rest of his blog. This is not a trivial…
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