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by rsanders 13y ago
According to http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/14/georgia-tech-a... : > Georgia Tech said it does not plan to lower admission standards to find 6,000 or so students for this track -- a number than is 20 times larger than its c
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by rsanders 13y ago
I wish I'd had this article to post instead. It has some detailed information about the cost of a traditional MS in CS (the online version is "one sixth the cost"), revenue share with Udacity, admission requirements, and a lot more. ht
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by rsanders 13y ago
I agree -- but we can't really know about that until the program's run for a while. I think they made a pretty smart choice starting with a CS degree. The field is notoriously full of extremely talented autodidacts, whether because the mate
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by rsanders 13y ago
I can ask about that (my wife works at GT PE), but this video implies a pretty strong equivalence. The relevant part is right at the beginning. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zihmiLx3Xlk
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by rsanders 13y ago
The course materials and participation are MO, just not the Masters degree itself. At the next family-attending Georgia Tech Professional Education function I'm going to petition everybody who'll stand still to allow people without a BS to
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by rsanders 13y ago
Well, there's no real scarcity of teaching faculty and other resources in a MOOC format, so that pressure will be removed. But I don't know how the standards will be set. I'm not sure Georgia Tech knows that yet, either.
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by rsanders 13y ago
Yeah, I find that a little wishy-washy, too. I guess that's part of the buying decision you have to make -- are you willing to risk the lesser cachet for the convenience and affordability? I'd do it in a second, but then I'm probably the ta
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by rsanders 13y ago
Unfortunately, at least for the moment an undergrad degree is a prerequisite. More generally, you have to be admitted to Georgia Tech as would any other graduate student. I think there will be quite a few companies willing to pay $7000 in
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by rsanders 13y ago
The word "devalue" comes up a lot in conversations about this sort of thing, but I'm not sure exactly how that works. If half the student body at GT died before graduating, would your degree be worth twice as much?
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by rsanders 13y ago
I think the Masters degree is an excellent place to start. MOOC-style education requires more of the student than traditional teaching formats. A lot of people don't have the necessary skills leaving high school, but they are likely to hav
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by rsanders 13y ago
I think the real reason you have AT&T involved is that without that sort of influence, this degree program wouldn't have happened until years later. Universities, and boards of regents, are deeply conservative, risk-averse institutions
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by rsanders 13y ago
The cost of a similar master's degree at a university like Georgia Tech can run $40,000. It's not quite the same thing -- watch the video by Charles Isbell on the GT site to hear their differentiation between the "on campus" and online degr
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by rsanders 13y ago
If you chase the links you end up on the Georgia Tech site about it: http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/faq . We’re not yet ready to announce a specific program cost, but the plan is to offer the Georgia Tech OMS CS for a total cost of
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Announcing Online MS in Computer Science in Collaboration with Georgia Tech(blog.udacity.com)
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by rsanders 13y ago
In the original post, he said " we could ship...". That's a pretty clear disclosure of his Googleness to me.
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by rsanders 13y ago
So you never see conflict messages or conflicted files in your Dropbox? In the few cases I've tried a git working copy on Dropbox -- which is what I believe the author is discussing -- I've had conflicts. For example: $ ls -1 .git/in
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by rsanders 14y ago
So you're saying that computer scientists are inherently more likely to be correct about an economic proposition than economists? Could it be that the field of computer science is more amenable to provably correct statements than the field
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by rsanders 14y ago
It appeared to be syncing my entire Cloud Player music folder to my local machine. That's quite a few GB of data -- 12,000 songs or so out of a possible 250,000. So it's not going to be of much use to me until they add some kind of selectiv
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by rsanders 14y ago
What was the harm, exactly? She overheard a stupid joke far less crude than one might hear on any television show during prime time. It was no worse than the one she posted on her own Twitter.
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by rsanders 14y ago
Right click on a folder in the Finder. There should be a couple of options for mirroring (ongoing) or copying the folder (one time) to Bitcasa. http://cl.ly/image/2T1n1R0X0B0Y
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by rsanders 14y ago
This would be a pretty easy thing to polyfill, I think.
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by rsanders 14y ago
So which True Lisp do you prefer that lacks analogues to the types used above (String, Keyword, List, Map, Vector) in which such a function wouldn't be applicable? I know it's not a Common Lisp implementation. Most modern Schemes have equiv
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by rsanders 14y ago
Not to bog down in meaningless pedantry, but the original meaning of the word "multitask" was in its technical sense as applied to computing.
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by rsanders 14y ago
While that's all obviously true, I don't think getting his problem fixed was the intent of his comment. You're attacking the messenger of what appears to be a very common message.
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by rsanders 14y ago
I would be interested to know why that is a blocker for you. For media consumption, at least as I normally practice it, that sounds like a detail I'd only notice by reading the code rather than perceiving it in the audio.
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by rsanders 14y ago
Can you efficiently select and sort on the date part of the _id?
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by rsanders 14y ago
Even MRI 1.9 does not support parallel execution of Ruby code. JRuby and MacRuby do, however.
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by rsanders 14y ago
I wanted ZFS as much as anybody, but NetApp did push the state of the art in some areas of filesystem design and the first thing everybody who used NetApp said when they heard about ZFS was "cool, it's like a NetApp". Sometimes it's not tro
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by rsanders 14y ago
It doesn't sound like a cache at all. Think of it like their old "hotfiles" relocation to the faster part of the disk, only now they're relocating the blocks from entire files to the faster volume in the corestorage group.
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by rsanders 14y ago
That's incorrect. You can embed an interpreter and interpreted code in an iOS app and many do. You just can't download new interpreted code after the application has been installed. You can't download new binary code, either. See http:

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