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So nowadays, even MIT is a vocational school? This just seems too damn specific to not be a direct industrial request. edit: corrected per bitL
by jstewartmobile 9y ago
So nowadays, even MIT is a vocational school? This just seems too damn specific to not be a direct industrial request.
edit: corrected per bitL
- omegaworks 9y agoExpect more of this as society continues to devalue degrees that don't tie directly into a lucrative professional career. College is expensive, with tuitions not anchored by a limited credit market. People will rationally turn away from fields of study that won't let them escape from their unforgivable debt.
- jstewartmobile 9y agoThe joke will be on society after half of this stuff gets refined down to ultimate simplicity (like bicycles), and the other half is refined to a point of "good enough" (like terminals) where no one cares anymore.
- bitL 9y agoMIT is not Ivy...
- canjobear 9y agoThis isn't a full course, it's an IAP course. IAP courses at MIT are special short courses, often student-run, between the fall and spring semesters that are supposed to cover specific, often practical topics in order to spice things up between the main classes.
- ericd 9y agoIt seems to me that this is a survey course of a recent cutting edge research area with hands on projects. And MIT is an engineering school, which so an applied course like this isn't out of place. Also, it's IAP (Independent Activity Period), which is a one month break between semesters. That's just enough time for a very specific course. There's another very specific IAP course in special relativity, for example. Besides, the topics they're covering here, like deep learning, SLAM, image segmentation, etc are useful in many other areas.