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#62I hope that the shitty login from Coursera is not in the future used on Udemy. It is the reason, why I am no longer using Coursera, despite in the past having finished 2 MOOCs with certificates there. Recently, I logged in at Udemy without issues and started a course there. Except for the DRM crap for some of the videos, that I need to watch in another browser, since I don't want to enable DRM crap in my main browser, all seems to work well.
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#63How valid are these certificates in the real world? Does anyone get benefitted by having them? I have always used these sites as a quick one off concept check. That was before llms, and I don’t have a use for these sites for my use case. So I don’t have any understanding of how valid they are in general
> How valid are these certificates in the real world?
Outside of some very rare outlier cases, 0%.
The value is the potential knowledge you gained helping you to jumpstart other things. Employers don't value them at all.
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They’re not trying to control your speech. They’re trying to improve your communication so your message gets across better. Unless of course your primary message is “I’m an ass and proudly anti-empathy.”
That's rich from someone using the username chimpanzee. If you consider "retard" offensive, then that's literally in the same league.
Maybe just grow up and stop being a terminally online social justice warrior?
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They’re not trying to control your speech. They’re trying to improve your communication so your message gets across better. Unless of course your primary message is “I’m an ass and proudly anti-empathy.”
That's rich from someone using the username chimpanzee. If you consider "retard" offensive, then that's literally in the same league. Maybe just grow up and stop being a terminally online social justice warrior?
Please explain further.
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Then have that as a feature, don’t force it
If they don't force it people won't complete the course. While that at first sounds good - they collect money - long term people who complete courses are your best marketing as they tell others and so completion is importation and thus the deadlines. Though how much force is best is subject to debate.
On the other hand it puts me off. I'd never pay for this myself as it is.
Either way I kinda hate the 'course' format to learn stuff. I don't have the patience for it. Usually the official documentation teaches the same but in much more condensed format so I can absorb it much quicker. Because online trainings are always paced so the slowest participant can keep up and that's agonising when you have a 140+ IQ and ADHD.
I'd rather hyperfocus and learn everything in half a day. I've always done it like that and I'm a deep expert. PS not trying to brag here, these things are both a blessing and a curse.
But my work paid a lot for Coursera so they're always pushing people to use it :(
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That's rich from someone using the username chimpanzee. If you consider "retard" offensive, then that's literally in the same league. Maybe just grow up and stop being a terminally online social justice warrior?
Please explain further.
Words aren't inherently slurs. They only become such when used as such. Which he didn't do.
Just like your chimpanzee usage likely isn't meant as a slur, despite it being constantly used as one.
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Odersky ;) "Model Thinking" was great! And I really liked the gamification course by Kevin Werbach (The topic was still hot back then) - something I used extensively at my start up.
Whoops, Obarsky was the Amiga synth guy, yeah, I haven't taken any courses with him. Although I might consider it.
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Please explain further.
Words aren't inherently slurs. They only become such when used as such. Which he didn't do. Just like your chimpanzee usage likely isn't meant as a slur, despite it being constantly used as one.
He used the word to refer to a hypothetical version of himself, one that failed to either notice or comprehend something simple. That’s the same context in which people use it as an insult against others. The only difference is that it was a self-applied insult in this case.
More importantly, the word, when used as an insult, uses real humans with real difficulties as the referent. Those people and their caregivers are the one’s that feel the insult. Whereas chimpanzee is an animal and remains unaware and unhurt when its species name is used as an insult. (My pseudonym is also not meant as a self-applied insult, most days.)
GPs usage doesn’t really matter to me though. It wasn’t an egregious thing to say. And, for me personally, the word has little value one way or another. It reminds me of grade school chatter.
I just find it comical that there’s a lack of self-awareness regarding the effect of its usage. But again, perhaps there was no lack of awareness at all and perhaps that was the real point.
Anyways, ta ta.