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Re:Inside Waymo's Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars by ghaff on Thursday August 24, 2017 @10:45AM (#15090489)
Isn't the practical reality that any course like that will address the theory and essentially deal with more or less toy problems? It would be hard to get into cutting edge research in an online course.

I'm not sure learning about natural language processing or image classification would be all that different--although those problems are arguably better understood and more bounded.

Even a site reliability engineering course isn't really going to give you deep insights into what, say, Google does on a day-to-day basis.

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Re:Inside Waymo's Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars by joshuamorton on Thursday August 24, 2017 @11:20AM (#15090818)
>Even a site reliability engineering course isn't really going to give you deep insights into what, say, Google does on a day-to-day basis.

I think this really gets to the core of the issue. There aren't many courses that will accurately reflect the actual state of the art in any field. Sometimes, graduate courses with a small scope and a relevant professor taught in person can partially address the state of the art, but an online course about "how to self driving car" is not that.

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Re:Inside Waymo's Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars by pas on Friday August 25, 2017 @06:48AM (#15097504)
Lectures, tech talks, blogs, random experts in relevant subreddits, but yes, an online course is not going to give more than the fundamentals and some advanced, but already well understood examples.
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