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betterthanwell comments on Just a reminder, for everyone that signed up for the intro to AI class, it's started. - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: betterthanwell 17 October 2011 05:19:19AM *  2 points [-]

"We've had an absolutely massive surge of last-minute homework submissions" - how surprising!

"The massive crush of students trying to do homework at the last minute exceeded all of our expectations, and the expectations of our servers. To compensate those who have had difficulty accessing the site today we have moved the deadline by 24 hours."

That figures.

Comment author: SilasBarta 18 October 2011 01:26:47PM 1 point [-]

What's even more (pseudo-)surprising/depressing is that, at least according to this thread and subthread, only 1,000 people completed the first homework, out of the ~150k who signed up.

A commenter suggested that this is reasonable considering the wide net they cast for the course compared to the math pre-requisites, and the normal compsci class dropout rate (which increases for large classes).

Comment author: betterthanwell 18 October 2011 10:27:34PM 1 point [-]

YouTube view counts are delayed and not-at-all reliable.

Comment author: SilasBarta 19 October 2011 01:10:24PM 2 points [-]

You're right. Recent update says 46k (not sure if the link in the thread to Norvig's G+ account is perma so just linking reddit).

Comment author: Armok_GoB 10 November 2011 06:57:12PM 0 points [-]

I find the recursiveness kinda hilarious actually.

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