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I want to live in a world where what you know and can do are the most important things that people get from education, but I think the sad reality is that a ver
by Eridrus 3y ago
I want to live in a world where what you know and can do are the most important things that people get from education, but I think the sad reality is that a very large part of higher education is signaling.
I weigh this in my mind against the fact that Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course that I did online in 2011 that was the single most valuable course I ever took, online or offline, and it totally changed the trajectory of my career. I did not seek a credential to put on my resume though because I viewed that as signaling the exact wrong thing.
- nightski 3y agoSome of the micro-masters courses are extremely good as well, and I took them for free. You don't have to get the credential.
- ijidak 3y agoIs Andrew Ng's course Coursera? Udemy? Something else?
- Eridrus 3y agoI make no claims that the course is even still similar (I remember programming in Octave lol) or relevant, but it looks like it is on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/machine-learning-introduction https://www.coursera.org/specializations/machine-learning-in...
- FredPret 3y agoI remember the Octave course as well! It was pretty cool, you could submit and get a grade right from Octave. The pain of working with Octave arrays in that course pushed me to learn Python.