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You know that a coursera-taught team won a (non-academic) machine-learning competition, right? Knock-on articles about it made the rounds here a few weeks back.
by queensnake 14y ago
You know that a coursera-taught team won a (non-academic) machine-learning competition, right? Knock-on articles about it made the rounds here a few weeks back.
- eddie_the_head 14y agoI missed that one, do you mind sharing a link?
- dizzystar 14y agoThis article popped up on Google. Is this what you're talking about? http://gigaom.com/data/why-becoming-a-data-scientist-might-be-easier-than-you-think/ http://gigaom.com/data/why-becoming-a-data-scientist-might-b... The winners were a mechanical engineering student, an actuary, and an insurance risk analyst. This is all neat, but I was refering specifically to students w/ no education using these courses as a replacement for college. Yes, as an add-on, I give it a huge Plus 1, but as a replacement, not yet. I'm not saying there is no hope, I'm saying it's not quite there yet.