Thrun is (I think) the first tenured Professor at a major University to stand down in order to try to bring learning online. Unlike the offerings from Stanford, MIT, Berkeley etc etc, Udacity wont be under the same "Don't damage the university's business model" constraint, so they are truly free to go for broke.
There has been a lot of criticism of the AI course - most of it by people who didn't attend beyond the first couple of weeks. I finished the course and had a good time doing it. It wasn't without flaws, but I have no doubt that with the necessary financial backing, they can make the necessary improvements and push on to create some remarkable content.
If they can solve the question of certification, they, and those who will inevitably follow, might just revolutionise the educational landscape.
And if it all goes wrong, Google wont kick him out of bed.
I totally believe that if you produce something you should be paid for your efforts, and that if someone steals that work and is caught doing it, that they should be punished in proportion to the crime. I don't think they should be allowed to cripple the internet trying to achieve that, though and I don't think you should be charged hundreds of thousands of dollars over a $2 piece of music.
The only value these blackouts have is in bringing SOPA and PIPA to the attention of people who otherwise wouldn't know what SOPA and PIPA are. If you're reading Slashdot, you should already know what is going on.
...work on ways to bypass SOPA and PIPA. Congress doesn't care that it will censor the internet, because they're the ones who will be doing the censoring. Censorship always makes perfect sense to the censors
Creating undetectable breaches of such unenforceable laws is the way out of this mess and those workarounds might just work in China too. So you'll be saving the internet and advancing human rights in China all at the same time.
Really? Because the teachers in my family are all paid a lot less than I am and their salary scale tops out at less than my salary. If they want to get on parity with me, they have to stop teaching and start managing.
Are you even British? Your reference to NFL and Walmart suggests not, which means you're comparing apples to oranges.
Except no school in its right mind is going to take a good maths teacher out of the maths department. Business graduates can fake ICT knowledge, but they can't fake Maths.
I have no problem with Engineers becoming maths teachers because the core of Engineering is math.
I think the problem with IT and Computing is that if you're good, there is no economic reason to go into teaching. Junior IT support roles routinely start at higher salaries than qualified teachers. Why would I hang up my developers hat to go and teach 11 year olds about strings and CPU scheduling? Will they pay me more for knowing what I'm doing? Of course not. So you'll continue to have the psychology and business graduates teach IT classes, except now they'll be teaching kids things that they can't do themselves.
It's a disaster in the making, but the bar is set so low that they might as well try.
It's a great idea, but the execution is the only thing that matters and I just don't see them pulling it off. Who is going to teach these kids programming? When I was at school most of my teachers didn't have a Computer Science background at all, I think the most common degree subject was Business Studies. How many business graduates are going to be able to teach programming beyond having the students copy code out of a textbook?
If I thought this would actually happen as described, it would almost be enough to make me consider a career in teaching. Good job I know better.
Be like a swan paddling upstream. Graceful on the surface, but working like crazy underneath.
I don't buy into the idea of embarrassing your boss by making him look stupid. Who is that going to help? Certainly not the person who made him look a fool. When it comes to promotion/pay raise time, who is going to get the bacon? The complainer who makes his superiority known, or the guy who shuts up and gets the job done without fuss?
We ban crude oil imports, Iran blockades the Straight of Hormuz, the US bombs Iran.
They wont even need a dodgy dossier this time around.
Here's to another decade of war.
Build a portfolio of good work. Do work for charities if that's what it takes. Most employers will be more impressed by examples of what you can do than by a diploma from a Java factory.
Of course, all this relies on the assumption that you are good, which if I'm honest, has not been my experience with 100% self-taught developers and that goes double for self-taught PHP developers.
If you want to make yourself stand out, you might want to consider other languages. A developer who only knows 1 language is rarely an indicator of quality. Learn Python or Ruby and you'll stand out from the Graphic Designer wannabee developer crowd.
Surely this suit requires Novell to prove that Microsoft mislead them with the intention of causing them to lose market share. Unless there's a smoking gun I'm not seeing, how do they plan to achieve this? We can't punish Microsoft for not including a feature they weren't obligated to implement. If we can, I want to sue them for not providing an API that enables me to torture that damned paperclip.
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Thrun is (I think) the first tenured Professor at a major University to stand down in order to try to bring learning online. Unlike the offerings from Stanford, MIT, Berkeley etc etc, Udacity wont be under the same "Don't damage the university's business model" constraint, so they are truly free to go for broke.
There has been a lot of criticism of the AI course - most of it by people who didn't attend beyond the first couple of weeks. I finished the course and had a good time doing it. It wasn't without flaws, but I have no doubt that with the necessary financial backing, they can make the necessary improvements and push on to create some remarkable content.
If they can solve the question of certification, they, and those who will inevitably follow, might just revolutionise the educational landscape.
And if it all goes wrong, Google wont kick him out of bed.
What do you get when you take an industrious TSA agent and add in a fanatically libertarian US Senator? I don't know, but I can't wait to find out.
In other news: water is wet.
You're going to have to explain that analogy - you've lost me.
Of course you can be pro-Copyright and Anti-SOPA.
I totally believe that if you produce something you should be paid for your efforts, and that if someone steals that work and is caught doing it, that they should be punished in proportion to the crime. I don't think they should be allowed to cripple the internet trying to achieve that, though and I don't think you should be charged hundreds of thousands of dollars over a $2 piece of music.
The only value these blackouts have is in bringing SOPA and PIPA to the attention of people who otherwise wouldn't know what SOPA and PIPA are. If you're reading Slashdot, you should already know what is going on.
...work on ways to bypass SOPA and PIPA. Congress doesn't care that it will censor the internet, because they're the ones who will be doing the censoring. Censorship always makes perfect sense to the censors
Creating undetectable breaches of such unenforceable laws is the way out of this mess and those workarounds might just work in China too. So you'll be saving the internet and advancing human rights in China all at the same time.
...but will it still be a Cyberwar when Israel starts bombing the Gaza Strip in retaliation?
I think if I had to choose, I'd put my eggs in the Maths basket. Without maths, you can't really do computer science anyway.
Really? Because the teachers in my family are all paid a lot less than I am and their salary scale tops out at less than my salary. If they want to get on parity with me, they have to stop teaching and start managing. Are you even British? Your reference to NFL and Walmart suggests not, which means you're comparing apples to oranges.
Except no school in its right mind is going to take a good maths teacher out of the maths department. Business graduates can fake ICT knowledge, but they can't fake Maths.
Well it hadn't improved between 1996-2003 .
I have no problem with Engineers becoming maths teachers because the core of Engineering is math.
I think the problem with IT and Computing is that if you're good, there is no economic reason to go into teaching. Junior IT support roles routinely start at higher salaries than qualified teachers. Why would I hang up my developers hat to go and teach 11 year olds about strings and CPU scheduling? Will they pay me more for knowing what I'm doing? Of course not. So you'll continue to have the psychology and business graduates teach IT classes, except now they'll be teaching kids things that they can't do themselves.
It's a disaster in the making, but the bar is set so low that they might as well try.
It's a great idea, but the execution is the only thing that matters and I just don't see them pulling it off. Who is going to teach these kids programming? When I was at school most of my teachers didn't have a Computer Science background at all, I think the most common degree subject was Business Studies. How many business graduates are going to be able to teach programming beyond having the students copy code out of a textbook?
If I thought this would actually happen as described, it would almost be enough to make me consider a career in teaching. Good job I know better.
Be like a swan paddling upstream. Graceful on the surface, but working like crazy underneath. I don't buy into the idea of embarrassing your boss by making him look stupid. Who is that going to help? Certainly not the person who made him look a fool. When it comes to promotion/pay raise time, who is going to get the bacon? The complainer who makes his superiority known, or the guy who shuts up and gets the job done without fuss?
You give Iran too much credit. If they were worried about what the West might do, they wouldn't be playing brinkmanship with their nuclear programme.
You missed the part where he writes a book first. 'Want to know why we're bombing Tehran? Buy my book, and don't forget the commemorative DVD'
If Iran tried to play the 'We have a right to Nuclear Weapons' card, the only question would be who drops the first bomb; Israel or the US?
We ban crude oil imports, Iran blockades the Straight of Hormuz, the US bombs Iran. They wont even need a dodgy dossier this time around. Here's to another decade of war.
Build a portfolio of good work. Do work for charities if that's what it takes. Most employers will be more impressed by examples of what you can do than by a diploma from a Java factory. Of course, all this relies on the assumption that you are good, which if I'm honest, has not been my experience with 100% self-taught developers and that goes double for self-taught PHP developers. If you want to make yourself stand out, you might want to consider other languages. A developer who only knows 1 language is rarely an indicator of quality. Learn Python or Ruby and you'll stand out from the Graphic Designer wannabee developer crowd.
Surely this suit requires Novell to prove that Microsoft mislead them with the intention of causing them to lose market share. Unless there's a smoking gun I'm not seeing, how do they plan to achieve this? We can't punish Microsoft for not including a feature they weren't obligated to implement. If we can, I want to sue them for not providing an API that enables me to torture that damned paperclip.
Programmers have always been cool. What they are today, is fashionable.