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by chris_p 14y ago
throw-a-video-lecture-on-YouTube? These classes are interactive. Most of them involve are weekly quizes, midterm and final exams and automatically graded programming assignments. There are deadlines for all of these, and if your performance
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by chris_p 14y ago
And it's not just Stanford: * 123 coursera courses from some of the best universities in the world in the next year: https://www.coursera.org/courses * 14 Udacity classes: http://www.udacity.com/ * 6 edX courses from Harvard, MIT and Be
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by chris_p 14y ago
Yes, you're actually right. I'll try to come up with a new description.
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by chris_p 14y ago
A wall with posters. Well, a virtual wall with posters.
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Show HN: Posterizer creates beautiful posterwalls from your favorite movies(posterizer.eu)
5 points by chris_p 14y ago|6 comments
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by chris_p 14y ago
Just watch it. Do it for me. Truly innovative stuff.
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by chris_p 14y ago
Therefore, books and literature aren't art, since they express ideas, notions and feelings with nothing but words. Wait, what?
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by chris_p 14y ago
It seems that users have to submit rebuttals to articles they read, I thought that was done by the system using NLP techniques, specifically Sentiment Analysis. Now that would be really cool.
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by chris_p 14y ago
I really like this, simple and to the point. Sadly I am not in the US to try it.
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by chris_p 14y ago
I assume they can order and deliver more than one coffee at the same time. By using bags, delivery boxes or something.
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by chris_p 14y ago
Facebook ads DO work! Use facebook advertising, then start flooding the internet with "meh, facebook ads did not work for my company" articles and, BOOM, there comes the traffic.
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by chris_p 14y ago
A very interesting read. Relevant: I once built a very simple text adventure engine in C, in a few hours for a /r/dailyprogrammer challenge: https://github.com/tech-no-crat/Cadventure-txt
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by chris_p 14y ago
I would add coursera and udacity.
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by chris_p 14y ago
The "Keep me posted" button shouldn't be red! It looks dangerous, no way I'm clicking that.
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Show HN: World map visualizing energy data. (Coffeescript, Ruby, Raphael.js)(chrisp.gr)
1 points by chris_p 14y ago|0 comments
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by chris_p 14y ago
This is very cool. The competition is heating up: Coursera, Udacity, edX. That can only be good for us consumers. Can't wait to see where this will lead us.
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by chris_p 14y ago
This whole online education trend was started by Stanford 9 months ago. Then, the professors who started two of the first three online classes created 2 separate startups (coursera and udacity). MITx was 6 months late to the game.