<story><title>Stanford to host more online classes</title><url>http://www.cs101-class.org/#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karpathy</author><text>thanks, I should add (and I hope this is somewhat obvious) that there is a team of about 7 or 8 of us in total. A lot of work goes into site/technical/video processing etc, and then there are 2.5 of us making the assignments.&lt;p&gt;The real hero behind the assignments is Jiquan Ngiam (&lt;a href=&quot;http://cs.stanford.edu/~jngiam/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://cs.stanford.edu/~jngiam/&lt;/a&gt;) who is in charge and does most of the work. He is awesome, brilliant, very hard working, and I thoroughly enjoy hacking with him on the ML class until late AM.</text></item><item><author>plinkplonk</author><text>&quot; I&apos;m a CS PhD student at Stanford and I am a (voluntary) co-creator of the programming assignments for the current ML class. It is a lot of work, but the way I see it, we only have to put great assignments together a single time, and thousands of people can enjoy them and benefit from them for years and years to come. That is what I call time well spent.&quot;&lt;p&gt;As a consumer of Stanford&apos;s online classes(though not the ML class. I&apos;m waiting for the CS 229 - vs the CS 229A  - version), let me take the opportunity to  thank you. Your efforts are totally appreciated. You are right, this is revolutionary. Glad to see that Stanford is keeping up (and building!) momentum rather than this being a one off effort.</text></item><item><author>karpathy</author><text>I get easily excited about education-related topics so I may be over-reacting, but I think these classes will jump-start an educational revolution, and that people will start to fully appreciate just how inefficient traditional teaching methods are.&lt;p&gt;Some people like to say that this is nothing new because video lectures were posted on the internet for several years now (for example MIT Open Courseware etc.), but I think this misses the point entirely. There is a huge difference between low-quality video/audio recording of a prof mumbling for an hour and post-processed, perfected snippets of videos presented in a coherent fashion, and most importantly with supplementary materials that encourage people to actually apply their knowledge and get feedback. In addition, the fact that many people take the class at the same time also enhances the experience for everyone, and we&apos;ve seen study groups form everywhere around internet.&lt;p&gt;Full disclosure, by the way, I&apos;m a CS PhD student at Stanford and I am a (voluntary) co-creator of the programming assignments for the current ML class. It is a lot of work, but the way I see it, we only have to put great assignments together a single time, and thousands of people can enjoy them and benefit from them for years and years to come. That is what I call time well spent.&lt;p&gt;I hope all these classes go well, and I&apos;m looking forward to telling my kids about what education used to be like in the old days. I have a feeling that they&apos;ll find it hard to believe me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>malvim</author><text>Me and my wife have been following Professor Ng&apos;s ML class and one of the highest points for us has been working through and trying to understand the programming exercices.&lt;p&gt;Our personal thanks to you and the other &quot;1.5 people&quot; working on that. ;)&lt;p&gt;Cheers!</text></comment>
<story><title>Stanford to host more online classes</title><url>http://www.cs101-class.org/#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karpathy</author><text>thanks, I should add (and I hope this is somewhat obvious) that there is a team of about 7 or 8 of us in total. A lot of work goes into site/technical/video processing etc, and then there are 2.5 of us making the assignments.&lt;p&gt;The real hero behind the assignments is Jiquan Ngiam (&lt;a href=&quot;http://cs.stanford.edu/~jngiam/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://cs.stanford.edu/~jngiam/&lt;/a&gt;) who is in charge and does most of the work. He is awesome, brilliant, very hard working, and I thoroughly enjoy hacking with him on the ML class until late AM.</text></item><item><author>plinkplonk</author><text>&quot; I&apos;m a CS PhD student at Stanford and I am a (voluntary) co-creator of the programming assignments for the current ML class. It is a lot of work, but the way I see it, we only have to put great assignments together a single time, and thousands of people can enjoy them and benefit from them for years and years to come. That is what I call time well spent.&quot;&lt;p&gt;As a consumer of Stanford&apos;s online classes(though not the ML class. I&apos;m waiting for the CS 229 - vs the CS 229A  - version), let me take the opportunity to  thank you. Your efforts are totally appreciated. You are right, this is revolutionary. Glad to see that Stanford is keeping up (and building!) momentum rather than this being a one off effort.</text></item><item><author>karpathy</author><text>I get easily excited about education-related topics so I may be over-reacting, but I think these classes will jump-start an educational revolution, and that people will start to fully appreciate just how inefficient traditional teaching methods are.&lt;p&gt;Some people like to say that this is nothing new because video lectures were posted on the internet for several years now (for example MIT Open Courseware etc.), but I think this misses the point entirely. There is a huge difference between low-quality video/audio recording of a prof mumbling for an hour and post-processed, perfected snippets of videos presented in a coherent fashion, and most importantly with supplementary materials that encourage people to actually apply their knowledge and get feedback. In addition, the fact that many people take the class at the same time also enhances the experience for everyone, and we&apos;ve seen study groups form everywhere around internet.&lt;p&gt;Full disclosure, by the way, I&apos;m a CS PhD student at Stanford and I am a (voluntary) co-creator of the programming assignments for the current ML class. It is a lot of work, but the way I see it, we only have to put great assignments together a single time, and thousands of people can enjoy them and benefit from them for years and years to come. That is what I call time well spent.&lt;p&gt;I hope all these classes go well, and I&apos;m looking forward to telling my kids about what education used to be like in the old days. I have a feeling that they&apos;ll find it hard to believe me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amirmc</author><text>Thanks for that. I suspect Prof Ng will get a lot of praise for the class but I suspect some of it is intended for the people behind the scenes (not always easy to find out who they are).</text></comment>