Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?

Re:Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? by bitL on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @12:02PM (#16746004)

PGM was brutal... At Stanford straight As students were happy just to pass...

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? by dmytrish on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @12:19PM (#16746215)

It's indeed dense and packed with many intermediate intuitions.

On the other hand, I still feel that the course is often unnecessarily brutal and could use better explanations.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? by bitL on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @12:50PM (#16746556)

MIT had a similar course on edX and that one was brutal as well (Computational Probability and Inference). I guess nobody figured out how to teach it the easy way.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? by diab0lic on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @02:05PM (#16747383)

I've been meaning to either take the course or read the book. I'm curious if you've read the book [0] and how you would compare or if you'd recommend one, the other or both.

[0] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/probabilistic-graphical-model...

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? by imh on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @05:04AM (#16753158)

I read the book nearly cover to cover. I can't recommend it enough, but it's an enormous time and energy investment.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? by diab0lic on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @09:38PM (#16761045)

Thanks for the response friend, I think I'll order myself a copy soon and get working on that enormous time and energy investment. :D

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