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I think I've spent about 5 hours per week on the db class. I'm not getting full marks by any means, but I'm learning a lot.
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Some soap: Everything you've seen or read about sex is false. It is an (growing) experience between the ones who have sex which can not be learned from a book or video.
Google doesn't broadcast it to the whole internet either: they just use its position for clients which happen to be near your AP.
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Just want to say "Thank you!" for all the hard work you and your colleagues put into ML class. This is the best learning experience I've had in my entire life.
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No, it's mainly a question of making sure graduates aren't people who "don't know what they don't know".

What I mean by this is that when you come across some common engineering problem, if you've never seen it before, you'll spend a lot of time trying to re-invent the wheel, probably very badly. That's why engineering programs spend so much time on fundamentals and so much time on studying because when you hit a similar problem you're supposed to have a switch go off and say wait, I've seen something similar before, know where to head to do your research and find a solid answer.

So yes, the cramming and huge amount of coursework is "mostly useless" but in reality just having gone through all that work turns out to be a real boon later in life.

(I went through a Computer Science/Software System degree but have many SOEN/Mech/Civil/Indu friends.)
The fun with young animals for me is seeing how they move and play, the activity, the energy... A picture doesn't convey this as good as a video. Still, I love the idea of the OP's site.
Having done the db-class here's my experience of how things worked. Although I understand it's different from class to class.

Course is like a typical Uni course. Lectures, readings, tests and exams.

I received an email a week before the class started.

Videos came out and could be watched in the browser or downloaded.

Open to anyone.
Hardly comparable, since you can know the name of the person from the license plate, but there's no SSID -> Owner's Name database.

A better comparison is your house address and number: it's out there for everyone to see and it gives them much, much more information than the SSID ever could.
I've been watching Susskind's physics lectures on youtube, which are also from Stanford (continuing education). They're just video of the lectures, no homework or quizzes.

They're great stuff and he's really gotten me to understand a lot of the "why" of physics rather than just the "how".

Having said that, I'd love to have homework along with them, even just suggested problems with an answer key.
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Erm... this doesn't make any sense.

>But in addition to lotions for the most common programming languages ??are gaining more and more popular functional languages ??and platforms
We're using it, and jade to genereate views

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Nevertheless, unless your school is a lot different to the one I went to, there is certainly a lot of memorisation that can be done. You can rote learn the technique for solving a particular problem, just grinding through the steps, without ever really understanding what you are doing. You'll get good scores in most tests, as the tests tend to resemble the practice exams that you no doubt did, but you won't be much use in the real world.

But this doesn't always hold. I remember one class where all of the practice exercises on op-amps were done using an idealised model of the op-amp, without having to worry about things like resistance/capacitance in the op-amp. Then on the day of the test, the professor ran a whole series of questions using op-amps with more realistic characteristics. A huge percentage of the class crashed and burned, because they had just rote learned solutions to problems, but the problems in the exam did not resemble the practice problems. It did however resemble the material that had been taught in class. Those that put more emphasis on understanding what the lecturer was saying than on how to do tutorial problems aced the test. We ended up with a bi-modal result - you either got about 95% for the test (if you understood the principles, the questions were actually very easy), or you got about 15% if you had just learned how to do the practice problems.

The thing that really made that test stand out for me was what it meant in the real world. I went to a military academy, and after graduation we all had to work in uniform for the next 5 or so years, so you got to see how the engineers that got 15% and how the engineers that got 95% in that test fared. It turns out that those getting by on memorisation turned out to be terrible engineers, a fact that I found quite frustrating whilst getting my degree, because their tactic actually worked exceptionally well for most exams. There were only a couple, like the exam I mentioned above, that really cost them dearly.

So, be aware that even if you aren't going down the memorisation route (and I agree with you, engineering should be all about deriving from principles, not memorising tricks), there are others around you that are not doing this. You'll meet those people in your professional life afterwards, and they won't be able to engineer their way out of a wet paper bag, but they will have the same diploma hanging on the wall as you.
The video editing is also fine. If such minor issues break your rhythm, you might need to rethink your approach to the lessons.

Video editing in AI class is against the knowledge that we have learned in 100+ years of movie editing. Cutting 1-2 seconds but keeping the same scene gives a jarring experience.

They cut out a few seconds so that you don't need to watch Norvig or Thrun to finish writing of a word or sentence, but that's saving time in the wrong place in my opinion. If you watch Khan Academy or ML class, those 1-2 seconds give a natural pause, that you can use to think about the subject.

I've nothing against the pen and paper approach, although occlusion is sometimes a problem. Based on my experience with Khan, AI and ML classes drawing by hand is the essential thing, is it less important if it's done electronically or by pen and paper.

Anyway, my main point is that execution of e.g. Khan Academy and ML class are better than AI class, and I'd personally prefer that inspiration for new online education courses is taken from them instead of AI class approach.
OO is just one of the programming paradigms, somehow it has managed to dominate all others in the mainstream languages. I'm trying to avoid using OO myself, but very often it's just impossible.
"Of course, if he’s smart enough to build a focused learning app that allowed him to dominate the show like this, it’s probably likely he would have done ok on his own."

The author of the article just doesn't get it.
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The saddest thing is that you seem to be serious about this, even trying to make it 'legit' or somewhat sensible by invoking Occam's Razor.

No facts (a link to general antidepressant consumption and a random blog w/ exactly three posts). Everyone move along, someone just posted a (traditional, right-winged/conservative) private opinion on life and family values with a healthy dose of conspiracy FUD (marriage .. shambles .. unhappiness .. antidepressant).
Just playing Devil's Advocate here, but I wonder how many of the folks bashing this guy thought it was brilliant how Steve Jobs pressured his engineers by saying “If it would save a person’s life, could you shave 10 seconds off the start up time?”
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I'm not dismissing him. I'm curious what his credentials are. It's not the same thing. I've politely asked the credentials of other members of HN when I was curious. In the case that comes immediately to mind, it was clearly beneficial to the person I asked, who was not full of bull and could back himself up. This is only an "ugly" thing to ask if Sebastian is a blow-hard. And if he is only a blow-hard, I would think members of HN would benefit from knowing that. Respect has to run both ways and his audience is not obligated to respect him or stick around to listen to him if he can't do them the honor of explaining what his "expertise" is based on.
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I've often said that the hallmark of good engineering is designing your error cases: of the cases where something goes wrong being pleasant and non-disastrous. The issue is that optimizing some known quality, even one as subjective as aesthetics, is a lot easier than optimizing unknowns, which is what designing failure cases requires. That's why it's hard, why it requires deep and broad domain knowledge, and why it requires knowing your users. It's hard, really, to point to software or hardware that does this well, but it's easy to point to bad examples, such as the OP. But consider things like undo, version control and versioned file systems; think about TCP's recovery abilities, about the fact that Google 2-factor auth gives you lock-out codes and application-specific passwords, the X~ and #X# files Emacs dumps all over your harddrive (they've saved me more than once), and the recovery page you get when Firefox crashes. Or consider the HTML5 parsing algorithm, character set detection, and Google's spelling suggestions. Each of these required identifying a class of problems and specifically designing in features that protected against them.

Please, when designing a project, think not just about your features, usability, and similar features. They're important, crucial even. But also spend time thinking about what problems users will have. What bugs are you likely to have, what misbehavior of your program will be most damaging? Implement a common format because that'll make debugging and workarounds easier, add a little diagnostic console or log in case your users have a problem you didn't expect, make backups of data you destructively modify, and so on. We all idolize Mac Airs now, for beautifully-designed and slick software. But there's something to be said for hardware and software that works through thick and thin, where there's some workaround or safety measure for every failure.
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I'm taking the ML class and I love it! I agree with everything you said above, and I'd love to see a more advance ML class in the future. Keep up the good work!
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I've been reading a book called "Falling in love: Why we choose the lovers we do". It's a fascinating book, and it mentions how studies have been done to show that when people believe that other people like them, they behave in a way that actually makes other people like them.

And, as the old saying goes (maybe it's not old, but I've seen it many times), the best way to be loved by people is to love people.
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The Steve Jobs one isn't but HP does own the HP one — but I'm not sure if it's open to the public.
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I don't want to rain on anyone's parade here, but sheet metal and tin snips are pretty cheap at Home Depot.

If they weren't $10.00-12.50 each I could see ordering a pack.
I think that you _can_ join ml-class and db-class right now (the currently on going set of courses). It's only ai-class that has closed enrollment.
Is there anyone here that would actually put up with this ridiculous public shaming

One one is being publicly shamed. From the article:

Names and details changed, for obvious reasons.
I've used a Macbook Pro for 3-ish years, and I didn't like its build quality very much.

I just bought a Thinkpad E325, one of the "edge" thinkpads. Its build quality is exceptional for a £350, and I'd say mostly on-par with what I could get from apple nowadays.
Sounds like he wants a Dell laptop with some stickers on, not something that's lovely to look at.
I read this as fiction then I realized he was serious. Obviously in need of some counseling. Delusional ? He reads like a carbon copy of "The Secret"
This is very far fetched armchair psychology but people driven _THAT_ incredibly much are usually not fueled by positive energy (alone). Together with the almost compulsive comparing to other people, sounds a lot like coping mechanisms for an inferiority complex or worse. OP should consider some therapy to learn about why he is so focused on comparing to others and why he is so hell-bent on work.
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difference between corporate policy and government policy. Government policy is supposed to be democratic.
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Only 50Gb each at the moment though that is currently enough for the stuff that I really care about (but I need to think about upgrading soon): the mail and web servers that I run for me and family+friends (two weekly snapshots and two daily, managed using rsync and cp -al so it doesn't take nearly the space of four full copies), source controlled source, general documents (again using snapshots to keep multiple instances, though I'm considering moving my docs into source control for keeping a history instead), configuration files for all my servers and such, and so forth.

There is a chunk of stuff that I don't backup off-site in this way but do backup offline at home (photos and MP3s for instance) and a large chunk of stuff that I don't backup at all (large media files that I could re-obtain from elsewhere as easily as I could draw back down from an offsite backup, should the RAID array fail in a way it can't survive or I cock up and accidentally delete stuff).
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If we live in a democracy, yes.

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I am of the opposite opinion. Yegge's problem is that he writes better than he is smart; he buys too much of his own bull.

(That said, he is certainly very smart.)

Edit: You're right, on consideration. If Yegge used writing discipline, it would not be as fun to read but have a higher signal to noise.
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You're wrong. I'm way out here in the apple camp myself (see me wave among my iMacs and Airs? Hi.), but he's most definitely correct with his general comment that the lack of affordances is something Apple doesn't solve. They do this out of love for simplicity, and while they often find the right balance between that simplicity and raw hidden power, sometimes (as is the case with the external Superdrive) you do need control.

It is possible to have both control and looks (most Apple products are good in this regard), but in the case of the superdrive, they went just a notch too far and assumed that the 1% of cases when you need to force a disc out, doesn't exist.
I agree. I read somewhere years ago (in my early 20s) about how Abe Lincoln wrote a disappointed letter to a General when he failed to continue fighting to win a battle (they had been fighting for days on end and were exhausted).

That may or may not be accurate but the point of it was he was upset, took it out on someone and then did not send the letter, and the advice was to take things like this and put them in your drafts and sleep on it.

This may have been in the book "How to Win Friends and Influence People".

Effective immediately, I started refraining from sending annoyed or angry emails. I'd file them in drafts and sleep on it.

I can't recall ever sending an email of this sort since. In hindsight there was always a better and more effective way to deal with the situation.

I think some people just love the sound of their own voice (and the sight of their own words) that they feel compelled to 'ship' after they've produced something like this. Some things just shouldn't ever be sent.

I think he'll regret doing this this in time. I certainly would.
I understand what you are saying, but understand in this case, I think they are having their own arguments used against them. So, while we might want to apply logic, we have to use the logic they've been using for years now. And, to be frank, that logic doesn't always make sense.
While the article starts out mentioning the students who have lots of sex, later on it explains that those were not actually the majority, and there even were some virgins in the course. And even the ones having lots of sex were also troubled by it.

Reading stuff about colleges in the US, sometimes it seems as if all those kids do is fornicate. I suspect the reality looks quite different.

Just saying that part of the envy might be directed towards a fantasy that never existed. But anyway, I know how you feel...

What stops you from having sex now (assuming you are out of high school)?
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No. I really like Apple products. I just want them to be better and there are design decisions that they've made over time that a purely user hostile.
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I don't know about you lot, but I often hear programmers in general complaining that they can't design, yet many of the web site demo's I've seen recently are beautiful, and IE compatible.

Where are people getting their designs from? Do they have a designer on the team? How are they "just knocking out" good designs so quickly? Or are they paying some photoshop wiz to do it for them?
Watched this during a coding break, so only half of my mind was actually paying attention. At some point, a friendly looking grandma appear and say something like "we had only 2k to work with". My attention shifted imediately, and I said out loud: "Wait...what?", and moved the seek slider back to actually read her name and position.

What a beautiful moment. It is indeed easy to forget the work of the pioneers, and we need indeed to document and spread their stories to the new generations.
> It's an effective communication tool.

He is using email, of all means of communication... far from effective and one of the narrowest communication channels. We are far from "effective" here - he was just venting his anger.
>It's possible to be too much of a nice guy.

This is a classic nerd's reductionist view of interpersonal interaction. You are not either a nice guy or a bad boy. Your personality has many more degrees of freedom than this. If it doesn't, then that may in fact be your problem.
Heh, OK I'd missed that development. Thanks for filling me in :)
I can't speak for all developers, but when I'm knocking up a quick and dirty demo, ThemeForest is my friend :)
Direct URL of classes:

New classes: (start in Jan/Feb 2012)

Computer Science 101: http://www.cs101-class.org/

Software Engineering for Software as a Service: http://www.saas-class.org/

Human-Computer Interfaces: http://www.hci-class.org/

Natural Language Processing: http://www.nlp-class.org/

Game Theory: http://www.game-theory-class.org/

Probabilistic Graphical Models: http://www.pgm-class.org/

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Old Classes: (already started)

Machine Learning: http://www.ml-class.org/

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: https://www.ai-class.com/

Introduction to Databases: http://www.db-class.org/
> I hope they will get the money they need to launch their product.

I find this sentence strangely odd.

Until now, you would have had a good idea, funded it somehow, and hoped that enough people buy it.

What Kickstarter tends to be nowadays is a way of guaranteeing a minimum number of units sold before you've ever got near manufacturing.

It's amazing in one way, but it's a significantly different way of launching a product.
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Cut your losses NOW and take a serious look at your current situation from the view of a business owner - you are investing your time, your life and energy and skills so naturally you want something in return. Do the compensations add up? Do YOU get enough out of this RIGHT NOW?

Do not wait for that mythical moment in the future when all will be great and you are flying first class around Asia for him. Forget that distant future, it is not there, not now. You need to make this situation work for you RIGHT NOW. Promising future prospects can be a (smaller) part of that but what else is in it for YOU right NOW? Not all compensation is monetary, some of the most valuable ones aren't monetary. So, understand your situation and what are you getting out of it right now until you have first class seats in Asia?
The criticism of Apple's USB drive was insightful, and showed a definite flaw in the design of the unit. However, these two examples are just petty. First, any time you need your serial number you will be told how to get it, and clicking Apple -> About This Mac -> More Info is not an exceptional amount of work. Compare this with what you have to do on Windows:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/558124

Also, though this is not obvious when the unit is purchased, the serial number is etched into the bottom of the casing, not painted as the rest of the text is. I only discovered this when the rest of the text rubbed off of my MacBook Pro. This means that it can't be printed in a different color, but I'd rather have the permanence of etching over paint that can be scratched off.

Finally, the USB extension cable cannot be bought alone - it only ships with an Apple keyboard. It's been designed for the electrical requirements of the keyboard and not all USB devices, so it's understandable that Apple limits its use to the device it's manufactured for.