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Why does this require students to submit a birthday? This seems like an unnecessary disclosure of personal information.
I'm all for the increasing availability of free online education, but it's interesting to note I'm paying 50 grand (partially) for this...
I don't know whether to take this course or the machine learning one. The both seem very interesting, but I only have time for one. I don't care much about robots, and was partly sold by Ng's separating music from background. OTOH I want to learn Bayes networks and natural language processing. I'd appreciate any advice.
I know that I hardly have time for one of them, but greedily want to try all three. I wonder if there is an expectation for the course to be available again, or at least provide the full materials afterwards. And if there is a penalty for failing/dropping out of them due to time constraints.
I'm likely to sign up for the ML one as well.
Why does this require students to submit a birthday? This seems like an unnecessary disclosure of personal information.
I imagine they want demographic data on who's taking the course. If you were running a large-scale education experiment, wouldn't you want to be able to measure how things are going and account for variables such as gender, age, and education level? I bet they are going to look at location as well, via IP addresses.
Why would they do it that way rather than self reporting?
Why does this require students to submit a birthday? This seems like an unnecessary disclosure of personal information.
I would say gender should be irrelevant too ...
I'm all for the increasing availability of free online education, but it's interesting to note I'm paying 50 grand (partially) for this...
I think there's no doubt that you'll have much more resources at your disposal (like proper office hours) if you are actually enrolled at Stanford. if nothing else, part of your 50 grand is also paying for the fact that our career fairs are always super crowded :)
Does anyone know why the class is only something like 8 weeks long? Stanford is on a semester system, and even in the quarter system classes are 10 weeks.
http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/registrar/academic-calend...
Does anyone know why the class is only something like 8 weeks long? Stanford is on a semester system, and even in the quarter system classes are 10 weeks.
Stanford is on the quarter system. You can check out their academic calendar online. http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/registrar/academic-calend...