Re:CS 189: Introduction to Machine Learning
by incomplete on Friday May 11, 2018 @02:39PM
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disclaimer: i work for berkeley EECS, but have no association w/these faculty or class.
TL;DR: they probably wanted to save some money by not paying our instructional group to do the hosting, and instead are (most likely) paying github for hosting. because they're doing this themselves, it means that things like real, working SSL certs are their responsibility, and most likely were "too hard" or would take "too long" to set up properly.
Re:CS 189: Introduction to Machine Learning
by mirajshah on Friday May 11, 2018 @09:53PM
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thanks for sharing... It's crazy that Berkeley (such an awesome institution) has come to this... The US/CA govt's owe it to the university to increase funding.
Re:CS 189: Introduction to Machine Learning
by setr on Sunday May 13, 2018 @04:48PM
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I really have my doubts that a university as big as Berkeley has any trouble with the costs of hosting video lectures. And afaik the UC's are also already very well funded
TL;DR: they probably wanted to save some money by not paying our instructional group to do the hosting, and instead are (most likely) paying github for hosting. because they're doing this themselves, it means that things like real, working SSL certs are their responsibility, and most likely were "too hard" or would take "too long" to set up properly.
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