I remember taking Ng's course soon after having taken a similar course. While his offered insights were occasionally useful, I found a number of them distractin

I remember taking Ng's course soon after having taken a similar course. While his offered insights were occasionally useful, I found a number of them distracting, especially when they differed substantially from what I had learned in the other course. I found most of his explanations simple but some of them were unsatisfactory, as the suggested motivations did not imply the taught solutions. This was forgivable where I knew of several alternatives, but not when the information was new to me. His class left me thinking I was able to apply problems to solutions, not the other way around. I will agree that he was a better teacher than Norvig and Thrun, and more engaging (though less holistic) than Widom.