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@user104245 - your post is [dead] so I can't reply to you directly. But the main reason I'm doing the Duke one and the Johns Hopkins ones both, is that I started with the JH one, and got to the Statistical Inference class. Some of the reviews of that class said it was much harder than the others, while the Duke program had an inference class that the reviews were more favorable to. So I thought I'd jump over to the Duke one, go through it (it's shorter anyway), then come back to the JH sequence and pick back up with their Statistical Inference class.

It turns out, the Duke program is pretty accessible for the first three courses, but then their course on Bayesian Statistics, IMO, gets a bit harder. So I've been stalled out on that for a while... I keep switching sessions because every time I start on it, I get to a certain point, get busy, put it aside for a while, and by the time I come back to it, I've forgotten the stuff I'd already studied and decide to start back at the beginning. I guess this class is my version of Sisyphus and that damn rock...

One day I'll get super-focused on it and plow through.

On a related note, the main reason I'm taking that "Advanced Machine Learning" sequence is because I enrolled in it by mistake. But I figured "fuck it, might as well go ahead and do it now that I'm enrolled."