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I'm already in online education. Feel free to contact me crompton@oplerno.com

I posted the link in reply to one of the other queries.

Posted the link above, don't want to spam the board. :)

I often forget when I'm engaged in something mentally intensive too, so I usually eat when other people around me eat.

A friend does something similar in the Netherlands. He's interviews people on their preferences and sending them coffee based on their preferences.

Not if you remember the whole rhyme:

    Thirty days have September,
    April, June, and November.
    All the rest have 31,
    Except February alone,
    And that has 28 days clear,
    And 29 in a leap year.

I'm seeing a catch-22: by writing and posting this article this article made the other article relevant. And Stan O'Neal, if he requested it deleted, is relevant again - albeit in a context of filing a removal notice.

Look forward to it!

Thanks for reacting. I've shared it to my vegan friends as I think this is a great idea. I've always thought the current soy curd based vegan cheeses required a reboot.

Reagent was the word I was groping for. :)

I'm assuming this is HL7v3, if I remember correctly the transmission is only setting a permission on the patient side to allow the primary care physician to transmit the data to a third party, c.q. another physician.

That sound similar to what we've doing at Oplerno. Feel free to contact me through email: crompton at oplerno.com

I didn't think salaries were in there, not if you look at the number of people who seem to be on the team. I was actually taking from point of view of the advise from Indigogo, which is to ask a fraction of the amount, meaning they would need much more.

I did something similar for an RSS reader I was building based on bayesian filtering, a col-4 column on the right with the "live" feed and a main col-8 column with the filtered feed, meaning all the matches. It looked pretty good in landscape mode.

I use HN Search to find interesting stories I might have missed in the last 24 hours. Often these 1 or 2 point stories are very interesting and merely got lost in the stream.

That would be pretty awesome if they could do it. From what I understand of genetic modification the enzymes which are used to cap or splice the of DNA strands can be very expensive.

I'm guessing $15k is a fraction of the money they'll need and they are hoping to pick up a substantial amount more.

I wonder why this was posted now, aren't college admissions closed?

It looks like they are deleting the comments of Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/TENenthusiast

Interesting to read this piece[1] by the same author.

For the first time in my career, I understand why I’m so nervous and irritable every time I walk into a classroom. In my own small way—in the only way I personally will ever be able to comprehend it—I am feeling the burden of preparing the next generation of humans to be more humane and better individuals. It is an awesome responsibility. But it is also why I’m a teacher.

1. http://www.hult.edu/ja-jp/news/blogs/2012/july/why-im-a-teac...

I beg to differ, we are in the process of getting accredited and I have yet to find a horses head in my bed. ;)

And as a result of these evaluations coming too soon teaching becomes a popularity contest.

Just looked at the impressive list of institutes you attended. What did you teach?

In one of the highest followed and most completed course, which happens to be the first Machine Learning by Andrew Ng, the level of completion was a meager 12.5%. And in that Ng's course is an outlier as no other courses with similar sizes, with the exception of AI, have come anywhere close to that level of completion. The numbers actually show the opposite, a large course has a lower percentage of completion.

IMHO if course community were a large factor this high trafficked course with a high level of community discussion would most likely have exceeded this. As you say later ML courses have had much community discussion, yet they have had lower completion rates.

At the moment there is no substitute for real interaction with the docent or professor.

Interesting article, even though many of the 'facts' about MOOCs are largely based conjecture. There is little hard evidence that "MOOCs [...] have so far failed to live up to their promise. Largely because there is no formal system of accreditation, drop-out rates have been high."

From the research I did it comparing MOOCs to other online education offerings this is merely one of the contributing factors. IMHO the primary factor to the failure of MOOCs is that they are massive. Recent research, highlighted in the NYT, showed that the introduction style courses - the ones with 300-400 students - suffer from the same or similar problems. Once they took some of the poorest performers out of the lecture halls and put them in classes of ~30 they outperformed the students in the large classes.

I like that they open sourced the code, although I think the license is a little restrictive.

I try to run all my companies as FOSS companies, as I believe that it's practically impossible to create a competitor just by forking the code. Much of the work in any code base comes not from the programmer, but from the community that interacts with the system as a whole. Even if a part of the community forks there will be different needs and requirements in the different communities which will mean they diverge as they address different niches.

Good article, shame about the paywall.

He does have some critique of the institutions which have received accreditation: ...even though some terrible schools and programs are accredited by the respected accrediting agencies...

There are different levels of approval and accreditation in the US, and as a layperson the distinction might be unclear. Due to this lack of transparency means some agencies might be seen to be doing a better job that others.

My experience with the education board in Vermont was very good. And although it wasn't exceptionally hard to get approval to give course credit, which is what you can get if you don't yet have all the prerequisites for a full degree program, it was certainly not a rubber stamp.

We went the other way and have approval to give course credit from the state of Vermont. And are in the process of getting accreditation.

My last startup had almost the same business model, it's great to see Patreon succeed in this difficult space.

Just posted the Pando link seconds after you posted. :)

The last startup I was involved in had almost this exact business model, great work by Patreon is making it work.