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by jjoonathan 4587 days ago
Machine Learning, Drug Development, Nuclear Energy, VLSI: Logic to Layout, Computer Architecture, and Analytical Chemistry were all somewhere between "good" and "great" in my book.

ML and NE were aimed at non-specialists and weren't rigorous. Maybe that's the objection?
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sanskritabelt 4587 days ago
That's part of it, yeah, lots of courses out there but they tend to be things like survey courses, etc. Some of this is that the video content turns out to be the equivalent of only a 1 or 2 credit course.
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jjoonathan 4587 days ago
It's unfair to criticize Coursera for having survey courses if they also have deep courses, which they do. It would be nice if they had more, but that's not really a criticism.
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sanskritabelt 4587 days ago
There's a Stanford professor that has the videos from his class about the Fourier Transform on youtube, go compare that to (just about?) anything on Coursera.
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