FiftyTwo comments on Open Thread, February 1-14, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: FiftyTwo 02 February 2013 06:33:05PM 2 points [-]

Whats your opinion on Cursera overall as a system?

Comment author: Ratcourse 03 February 2013 03:51:55PM 2 points [-]

Coursera is fine, just fine. I took intro to model thinking and game theory and they've put some thought into it. Udacity is better, cs101 is the best online course out there afaik. intro to ai, is so-so

Comment author: beoShaffer 03 February 2013 09:48:02PM 2 points [-]

Udacity stats 101, is also very good.

Comment author: Ratcourse 04 February 2013 04:55:37PM 0 points [-]

Yes, I forgot that one, quite good indeed

Comment author: gwern 02 February 2013 06:53:23PM 1 point [-]

I'm not sure. 'Drugs and the Brain' was the first one I tried - before I had been put off by the forced scheduling, but this makes sense if they're depending on peer grading. The technical aspects are better than 'Marginal Revolution University', but I can't compare to many others. One thing I liked about the CMU OLI course was that it had a lot of questions and quizzes, which is something 'Data Analysis' is currently falling down on the job a bit anent.