It bothers me a little bit that all these classes have their own domain names, all of which border on spammy-sounding (e.g. generic-prescription-drugs.com).
I wonder why they aren't all under the same domain? All the classes I've seen so far seem to be the same underlying app.
Maybe they're just doing it that way so people can farm HN karma.
hardly the same app.
I'm in both the AI and machine learning classes and while one has a full infra-structure for programming assignments and some other video-playback that I haven't seen anywhere else, the other one uses youtube videos with quizzes only at the end of the videos.
The AI class seems to be the exception. The AI class has a .com extension, while all the others have .org extensions. The AI class website runs on KnowLabs software, while all the others run on software developed by some Stanford students last summer.
This is the question everyone wants answered. There are two possible answers.
1) This is a decentralized system. Stanford just circulated a memo (or in a lunch discussion, lets not obsess over how this happened) that prof Ng and Prof Jeniffer have done this amazing class where the world participated and everyone is happy. Now everyone is encouraged to use the site source (they haven't even changed the contact page or layout) and start the class of their own. Nobody knows for sure who is planning to put it up and it is highly decentralized.
2) Stanford is rolling them out slowly so every on of them gets their share of twitter/hn/reddit/fb time. Nobody steals the limelight.
We can know which new courses are going to happen if someone makes a whois program which does the search for -class.org where is any 6-7 letter word.
I wonder why they aren't all under the same domain? All the classes I've seen so far seem to be the same underlying app.
Maybe they're just doing it that way so people can farm HN karma.