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6 votes
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A mathematician's lament
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We don’t know our potential
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Is the University of Edinburgh right to rename its David Hume Tower?
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Academics are really, really worried about their freedom
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The 450 Movement
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Are philosophical classics too difficult for students?
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Reading and decoding from the perspective of someone with a learning disability
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At a loss for words: How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
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How Southern socialites rewrote civil war history
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How to think about individual vs group hereditarianism
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What online courses / MOOCs have you taken?
Not leaving the house much these days (due to social distancing and also insane heat in NYC right now) means I've got some time to kill that I'd like to spend productively. I took MIT 6.00.2x:...
Not leaving the house much these days (due to social distancing and also insane heat in NYC right now) means I've got some time to kill that I'd like to spend productively.
I took MIT 6.00.2x: Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science a few years back when I was refreshing my Python skills. I think it's been updated a bit since then. It was a high quality course and I enjoyed it, though there are so many Python-related courses these days, I can't guarantee it's the best.
I'm currently taking:
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Model Thinking on Coursera from the University of Michigan. I don't know where I saw this recommended (maybe on Tildes or Hacker News?) but it's quite good so far. Scott Page teaches about how to use various models (mental models, computational ones, etc.) for breaking down and analyzing various problems and systems. I've only just started but I quite like it.
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Testing and Monitoring Machine Learning Model Deployments on Udemy. Taking this along with a few coworkers since it's relevant to what I do. Only just starting but appears to be quite good and works through a well-documented example project on Github.
I've also come across a few that seem like they might be good courses for the future:
- Bayesian Methods for Hackers
- Probalistic graphical models on Coursera (3-part sequence, not free)
- Computational probability and inference
Now your turn: what have you taken? What did you like or not like, and why? What do you want to take?
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The practical case on why we need the humanities
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The educational standardization trap
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The coming disruption - Scott Galloway predicts a handful of elite universities and tech companies will soon monopolize higher education
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How a leftist cartoonist’s college campus drawing nearly became a far-right meme
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Biden’s free-college plan is a solution in search of a problem
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Small colleges were already on the brink. Now, coronavirus threatens their existence
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Teaching in the US vs. the rest of the world
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Rhode Island lawsuit: Students sue for the right to learn civics
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Why selection bias is the most powerful force in education
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One in five University of Otago, New Zealand medical students to be denied graduation after falsifying overseas placement records
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Korean education: A view from the trenches
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In China, surge in students informing on professors
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Are liberal arts colleges doomed? The cautionary tale of Hampshire College and the broken business model of American higher education
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What teaching ethics in Appalachia taught me about bridging America’s partisan divide
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"You can't say that! Stories have to be about white people"
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The hedge fund billionaire’s guide to buying your kids a better shot at not just one elite college, but lots of them
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After Labour's conference pledge to scrap Ofsted and private schools, does the envied Finnish education system provide the blueprint?
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How to keep teachers from leaving the profession
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Jerry Falwell’s aides break their silence - Current and former Liberty University officials describe a culture of fear and self-dealing at the largest Christian college in the world
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How the MIT Media Lab concealed its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
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The play deficit
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Meet Timothy Leary, the 1960s Harvard professor who became the ‘high priest of LSD’
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China orders halt to history tests for students seeking credits for US university courses
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The revenge of the poverty-stricken college professors is underway in Florida. And it's big.
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How Teach for America evolved into an arm of the charter school movement
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Former Stanford sailing coach gets one day in prison, six months house arrest, two years probation, and a $10,000 fine in college cheating scandal
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The disadvantages of an elite education: Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers
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How one Colorado art teacher inspires kids by leaning into chaos, not control
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Political confessional: I think private schools should be banned
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A union fight at Marquette University
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Schools are using software to help pick who gets in. What could go wrong?
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Math teachers should be more like football coaches
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Lori Loughlin feels wronged in college admissions scandal
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Froebel’s Gifts
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LA’s elite on edge as prosecutors pursue more parents in admissions scandal
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Indigenous educators fight for an accurate history of California
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No Spanish allowed: Texas school museum revisits history of segregation
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Can you access university libraries in your country w/o an affiliation to the university?
In Turkey, where I live, almost all universities restrict access to staff and students (only their own students if not a graduate student); the only exception I can find is the Koç University...
In Turkey, where I live, almost all universities restrict access to staff and students (only their own students if not a graduate student); the only exception I can find is the Koç University where paid membership is open to public. I've researched in the past and found that major universities around the world---i.e. Italy, France, UK, US; selection factor being the languages I can read---seem to allow the public to access in one way or another (article, in Turkish, with results). But I wonder how accurate my reading is with the reality, and thus I'm asking this question.
So, as a plain citizen w/o any current affiliation to any educational institutions, can you access university libraries where you live? Does it matter if you have certain diplomas or affiliations? How easy it is?
10 votes