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by _ceuz 1374 days ago
While good materials are easy to find, it'd be much easier if all assignments and solutions were available the way they are in this MIT course. I find a lot of value in verifying my solutions, or comparing to other valid solutions.

Cheating is a major problem, but I think the benefits (at least societally) would greatly outweigh the costs. I know sometimes courses don't change enough to make releasing solutions to assignments from past years a viable compromise.
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danielvaughn 1374 days ago
I'd love to see a site that aggregates all of this content into an easily explorable format.
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frognumber 1374 days ago
I made one once! That's a story for another time, but lessons learned:

- Elite schools like MIT are cesspools of crime and corruption, at least at the top. By "crime," I don't mean metaphorical "bad stuff" -- I mean actual, genuine, bona fide scary stuff like the movies. MIT's endowment is $20M per faculty member, and if you're in control of $20B in endowment with that much slush and that little oversight, it draws the wrong people.

- Don't accept money from elite schools. You're gonna get drawn into deeper shit than you want to know about.

- Less elite schools are more honest.

- If you do get in too deep, sign an NDA and non-disparage, and make sure you're connected to powerful friends. The calculus was: (1) if bad stuff happens to me, they hit front page of NY Times (powerful friends) (2) If we're both left in peace, I'm signalling I'm probably not going to expose them (NDA+non-disparage).

What I found is that there's much better content overall one tier down, although without MIT's PR budget. You gotta know where and how to find it. If all of that were aggregate, that'd be golden.

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debanjan16 1374 days ago
>What I found is that there's much better content overall one tier down

Which school's content are you talking about?

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frognumber 1374 days ago
It's unfortunately distributed. ASU, WPI, Georgia Tech, etc. have impressive operations, but for the most part, you need to look a lot of places.

There's a ton of little resources like this: https://ximera.osu.edu/mooculus

Needs a ton of work on CSS and styling, but the content is great.

That's why we'd need an aggregator.

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