[lemonghost]

> The way I see it, Andrew Ng is an entrepreneur co-founder with a startup called Coursera. He makes his courses free, because he's a good guy, and free attracts the audience that makes his platform worth something.

I liked this class and Andrew seems like a great guy but I'd like to point out that it's no longer free to take the evaluations for Coursera courses. Coursera is a startup and needs to find a way to monetize the courses to stay in business. I have no problem with that but I think its a little disingenuous to present Coursera as a free service when its clearly not.

[wodenokoto]

I see this written on HN and reddit a lot lately, yet I've just signed up and begun two courses, included Andrews ML course and have yet to be asked for money or met restrictions beyond the once in place last year.

[sanswork]

I'm doing the ML course at the moment and I'm asked to pay for a certificate after every screen.

[wodenokoto]

Yes, you are right. I should have written "forced to" instead of asked to, but now it is too late to edit.

Anyway, my point stands. I can take these courses for free, despite people on HN and reddit claiming you can't.