Well, having less competition is a bad thing.
Coursera and Udemy are now one company
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Re: Coursera and Udemy are now one company
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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.”
> They’re not trying to control your speech.
yeah you're right the guy who told me which words I shouldn't say definitely isn't trying to control my speech.
Chimps are actually quite intelligent, btw. Do better.
Re: Coursera and Udemy are now one company
#83Coursera is a money losing company with a 10% y/y growth that IPOed at the top of the 2021 hype cycle. Now that the infinite money glitch is over they are in trouble, so they buy a marginally profitable company and slap Synergy and AI on it and pray to the gods of the market for more bountiful harvests of stocks issued.
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Yes! I have had unfettered access to it via a couple employers and the Illusion of Choice is real. The best thing they could do (for users like me, not sure if this is true for the majority) would be to go back to being a curator of quality and not a marketplace for anyone to make a course.
Being a big marketplace is their big differentiator from sites like masterclass But at the same time I agree that they aren't doing enough to surface the high quality courses
>But at the same time I agree that they aren't doing enough to surface the high
> quality courses
They have forced the creators to agree on being scrapped by AI or otherwise not showing up on their own top search. Ironically this has sealed their fate, and most top creators decided to move their content somewhere else.
Re: Coursera and Udemy are now one company
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.”
> They’re not trying to control your speech. yeah you're right the guy who told me which words I shouldn't say definitely isn't trying to control my speech. Chimps are actually quite intelligent, btw. Do better.
> yeah you're right the guy who told me which words I shouldn't say definitely isn't trying to control my speech.
>> Please don't use ridiculous and painful slurs in a serious conversation.
"Please don't" is just a polite request, particularly when used by an anonymous and presumably powerless stranger on the internet. It's not an attempt to take control or use force. It's an attempt to get you to introspect. Don't be so sensitive :p
Yes, chimps are intelligent. Thank you for noticing.
Re: Coursera and Udemy are now one company
#86Coursera used to be good, and I've found the occasional good course on Udemy, but neither are particularly great right now in my opinion. Well curated learning materials are such a unicorn.
pluralsight and oreilly are really good
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I did Andrew Ng's old Machine Learning, Obarsky's Scala course, the Ng's Deep Learning specialization, Nand to Tetris part 1 and a small Data Science course which wasn't very good. I think my very first course was "Model Thinking" course, but I never took the exam there. I also tried the sequel to the Scala course at one point, and the Cryptography course, but I dropped out from those after finding out they were a bi…
Agreed about Odersky, the Scala course and the Scala Functional Programming course were solid (the latter a bit less so, a blemish was its insistence on Akka, but the concepts were interesting). There was also a very interesting introduction to Programming Languages (by Dan... something? He was from the University of Washington I think) which covered multiple paradigms and had interesting things to say about the ML f…
Yes, Programming Languages by Dan Grossman! The course was later split up into three parts, with each part focusing on a particular language/paradigm: SML, Racket, and Ruby. Definitely one of the higher quality offerings on Coursera.
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> They’re not trying to control your speech. yeah you're right the guy who told me which words I shouldn't say definitely isn't trying to control my speech. Chimps are actually quite intelligent, btw. Do better.
> yeah you're right the guy who told me which words I shouldn't say definitely isn't trying to control my speech. >> Please don't use ridiculous and painful slurs in a serious conversation. "Please don't" is just a polite request, particularly when used by an anonymous and presumably powerless stranger on the internet. It's not an attempt to take control or use force. It's an attempt to get you to introspect. Don't b…
> Don't be so sensitive :p
At least you’re self-aware about this.
See ya around, bud.
Re: Coursera and Udemy are now one company
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
> yeah you're right the guy who told me which words I shouldn't say definitely isn't trying to control my speech. >> Please don't use ridiculous and painful slurs in a serious conversation. "Please don't" is just a polite request, particularly when used by an anonymous and presumably powerless stranger on the internet. It's not an attempt to take control or use force. It's an attempt to get you to introspect. Don't b…
> Don't be so sensitive :p At least you’re self-aware about this. See ya around, bud.
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