[rogergrosse]

Co-creator of Metacademy here. Colorado and I are intending Metacademy to be a “package manager for knowledge,” where you can easily find the particular thing you want to learn about (e.g. deep neural nets) without having to track down all the prerequisites (e.g. gradient descent) yourself. Basically, we’ve annotated a dependency graph for the core concepts in the field, and it uses the graph to produce step-by-step learning plans geared directly towards your goals.

Sorry if you can't reach the site. We’re both doing this as volunteers, and I guess we weren’t prepared for the level of traffic we’re getting. In the meantime, you can find more details about our high-level goals here: http://hunch.net/?p=2714

If you don’t have a particular goal in mind and just want a general overview, check out the roadmaps, e.g. http://www.metacademy.org/roadmaps/rgrosse/bayesian_machine_...

[dbpokorny]

This is great, but it could be so much more. For example, you could split the project in 2 (or perhaps simply clone it) with the other half working on the K-12 market.

You see, this would be the ideal learning tool for a teacher-student tutoring situation: by looking for the precise point where a student becomes stuck, it is then possible to see what skill-set or knowledge area needs more work and practice, and then adjust the lesson plan accordingly.

Metacademy is of course the natural place for such a "market" in education products to form.

[agentultra]

Great work! I've been contemplating a service much like this for months. A site that lets you start with a subject or concept and generates a precise list of reading material and subject matter to bring you up to speed. It is essentially answering the question, "What should I read next?"

I look forward to seeing how far this database extends!

[dovel]

Was it the two of you who added all the content? Did you do it all manually? How long did it take?

[edwardio]

Submitter here, thanks for creating metacademy. it's helped me a lot in school.

[rogergrosse]

Glad to hear that! We'd love to get your feedback -- you can contact us at [e-mail].

[darrellsilver]

Awesome site, and want to support any way we can. Great context around content sources both free and paid are really promising.

Let me know if we can be at all of help: darrell [at] thinkful.com