Assuming you're taking about Andrew Ng's Stanford ML course, I had the same impression until I realized that the actual Stanford ML course is a lot harder and t

Assuming you're taking about Andrew Ng's Stanford ML course, I had the same impression until I realized that the actual Stanford ML course is a lot harder and theory-heavy. Basically, the Coursera thing is a more practical, watered-down (less math) version of the real Stanford course (which btw you can still find on Youtube, though it may be a bit dated)...