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Considering hallucinations, that seems risky. How do you double check what you were taught?
Hallucinations has made huge progress over last 3 years
Yep, now there are way more sophisticated. Same amount, though.
Coursera to combine with Udemy
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Re: Coursera to combine with Udemy
#92This same week, Egghead ( https://egghead.io ) started offering $500 lifetime access to everything they ever made or will make. There's definitely some excellent material in their catalog. But the signals sure seem to point toward the decline of centralized human-created coursework.
Whose lifetime?
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#93Are the contents of these websites current enough to keep up with new technologies? I know universities have been slow to evolve with AI generally …
Re: Coursera to combine with Udemy
#94This same week, Egghead ( https://egghead.io ) started offering $500 lifetime access to everything they ever made or will make. There's definitely some excellent material in their catalog. But the signals sure seem to point toward the decline of centralized human-created coursework.
Egghead.io is not worth it, the courses there have a shelf life even shorter than frontendmasters. Authors mostly use it to dump their wares then never update the course afterwards while breaking API changes litter their backlog making most content, unless it was released in the last 3 months, worthless.
Absolutely not worth it since the courses are on par with random youtube tutorials IMO.
Also really dislike the pattern of some popular frontend frameworks selling basic documentation in the form of "courses."
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#95Both have garbage content at this point - Coursera was great when they launched, top quality material and university-level instruction. Now it's just bottom of the barrel scraps. YT has tons of quality instruction - hell nowadays I just ask an LLM to make me a course for whatever I wanna learn.
My biggest issue with Udemy courses is that it's not easy to vet the instructor. User ratings are unreliable since beginners aren't really in a position to evaluate a teacher's expertise.
If Udemy's pitch were “Learn X as Taught by Notable People in the Field,” I would have signed up in a heartbeat.
- 3D Graphics taught by Michael Abrash
- Card Manipulation taught by Jeff McBride
- Pianistic Ergonomics taught by Edna Golandsky
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#96As someone who had to drop out of school in the 2008 crisis (family trouble), I owe a good chunk of my learning to the first era of online teaching. Those courses that were basically “we’re a top university and we let someone record the class from the back” were a literal life changer. Honestly, that was all I wanted. Everything that came after has been substantially worse. Work is gamified, teachers spend more time…
> If we went back to recording lectures by the worlds best and putting it online for free with attached books and exercises, we could improve the world a lot. How is that a viable model?
Making the world a better place sometimes is incompatible with a profitable business model, that's why donations still exist.
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I work at a university and half of the coursework seems worse than the good MOOCs. Esp. the more practical ones. (Might be a problem of that university, still ...)
It's probably not a uni specific issue. I went to a top EU uni, and there absolutely were courses that could've just been an ~~email~~ video. Admitedly not everything was bad, but the quality of education isn't as high as it should be.
We have a lot more students in university, and a lot more professors. Inevitably this means converging on "average."
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The same way you double check with any other method you prefer? Duh. LLMs are vastly superior to compile and spread knowledge than any other thing preceding them.
You double check every university lecture you've been apart of?
That's what is called "studying" or "reading a textbook", isn't it?
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Considering hallucinations, that seems risky. How do you double check what you were taught?
The same way you double check with any other method you prefer? Duh. LLMs are vastly superior to compile and spread knowledge than any other thing preceding them.
They are faster, but I don't see how they are vastly superior to a course designed and offered by a subject matter expert in the field.
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#100Both have garbage content at this point - Coursera was great when they launched, top quality material and university-level instruction. Now it's just bottom of the barrel scraps. YT has tons of quality instruction - hell nowadays I just ask an LLM to make me a course for whatever I wanna learn.
My biggest issue with Udemy courses is that it's not easy to vet the instructor. User ratings are unreliable since beginners aren't really in a position to evaluate a teacher's expertise. If Udemy's pitch were “Learn X as Taught by Notable People in the Field,” I would have signed up in a heartbeat. - 3D Graphics taught by Michael Abrash - Card Manipulation taught by Jeff McBride - Pianistic Ergonomics taught by Edna…
Notable people tend to teach on their own sites, or at least more specialized sites rather than generic sites like Udemy. Udemy would need to pay them instead.