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Jeremy, I live in PA. Do you have online streaming for this course or do we need to be physically in CA

The whole course is freely available online: http://course.fast.ai/ml

This is great - coding isn't even my day job, but I believe getting a better understanding of ML will help me to better communicate with engineering teams.

Thanks for making this available.

At first glance, it looks like good material. I wish more courses like these charged money though

On Udemy, there's a particular course-author I like a great deal (Anthony Alicea iirc) who made a huge difference when I was first learning nodejs & angularjs. Unfortunately, it looks like he only gets to work on these courses here and there - the final project of the Nodejs course has been in-progress for years now at this point.

I can't help but wish that he was able to make more money from these courses so that he would be motivated to develop another 2-3 of them. As-is, it seems like a lot of good teachers end up teaching on a part time basis only (there are some youtube tutorial creators I have in mind here too)

If they charged money, they'd never get famous and you'd never hear about them.

i personally think MOOCs need to tie up with actual well known universities to issue certs that count for credits with colleges. otherwise i see no actual value in "paying" for these vs just following along at my own speed. the google cert for things(for eg android) comes kinda close but whenever i think about pulling the trigger my mind just goes "what employer is looking for this cert?how is it relevant" and i back off instantly

I develop online course materials as well. The big problem is the market for self-study/MOOCs just isn't there so it is really hard to actually monetize these types of courses. For Anthony and other MOOC course developers, we are mostly drive my passion for the subject and the thought of making a difference in the world. Of course this does have an added negative impact in the sense that we have to basically do everything ourselves (write the content, record the videos, develop the graphics, develop the videos - everything) which causes content to be dragged out for years.

The course I am working on has been in development for over a year.

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