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I am currently going through the self-driving car engineer nano degree and I completely disagree. The content was not useful for anything besides trying to to make students be able to complete the projects. They completely skip over and hard theory or mathematics probably because most people would struggle with it

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In all fairness there is a big difference between research AI and applied AI/ML. You can spend lots of time on the former before even touching a keyboard. But people can do useful things with the latter with a fairly light dose of theory.

I did the first semester of that course. It was ML 101 repeated several times. It lacked any rigor. I hope to god no-one who finishes that course has an important job working on self driving cars. Moveing fast and breaking things shouldn’t apply to driving.

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