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Pity. The only MOOC I have ever finished, and truly enjoyed, was Thrun's "Artificial Intelligence for Robotics". It was magnificent to get an easy to follow int
by krisoft 13y ago
Pity. The only MOOC I have ever finished, and truly enjoyed, was Thrun's "Artificial Intelligence for Robotics". It was magnificent to get an easy to follow introduction into a deep academic field by someone who is so demonstrably accomplished.
I know that I'm just being selfish here, but I was hoping that Udacity will continue on that path. I would love to learn celestial mechanics from Belbruno, or neural networks from Hinton, or operation system design from Linus in the accesible Udacity style. It seems that won't happen any time soon, or ever.
- riffraff 13y agofyi, Hinton did a class on NN on coursera, I didn't finish it but the beginning of it was _awesome_ https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets
- cheeko1234 13y agoWhy is it so difficult to have the motivation to finish MOOC? That's the main problem with online education, and we need to figure out what is causing so many people to quit halfway.
- summerdown2 13y agoAnother thing may be that for many people half-way is good enough. I took the Udacity cryptography course and really enjoyed it. I never took the exam because I didn't see the point. Presumably I'd have been marked down as "failed." But I think that's only because their model for learning still includes "we're the ones who certify you." I'd like to see a model that says "here's the knowledge - go as far as you want."