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PGM was brutal... At Stanford straight As students were happy just to pass...

• dmytrish 9y ago
  It's indeed dense and packed with many intermediate intuitions. On the other hand, I still feel that the course is often unnecessarily brutal and could use better explanations.
  • bitL 9y ago
    MIT had a similar course on edX and that one was brutal as well (Computational Probability and Inference). I guess nobody figured out how to teach it the easy way.
• diab0lic 9y ago
  I've been meaning to either take the course or read the book. I'm curious if you've read the book [0] and how you would compare or if you'd recommend one, the other or both. [0] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/probabilistic-graphical-models https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/probabilistic-graphical-model...
  • imh 9y ago
    I read the book nearly cover to cover. I can't recommend it enough, but it's an enormous time and energy investment.
    • diab0lic 9y ago
      Thanks for the response friend, I think I'll order myself a copy soon and get working on that enormous time and energy investment. :D