Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?
by platz on Monday November 30, 2015 @12:53AM
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Koller's PGM was fun but very hard to generalize outside of the problems presented in the class. Opportunities to implement loopy belief propagation just don't seem to come up as much ad I'd like.
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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?
by alkalait on Monday November 30, 2015 @09:08AM
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That's because most were toy examples dealing with discrete distributions in a few dimensions. Granted, these are mathematically easier to deal with, but not representative of real-world scenarios.