it went far beyond those 'research paper because I have a good dad' or 'I had a few startups and some even got acquired thanks to my dad's friend'. The math competitions hosted by MAA, the CS Olympiads called usaco,etc are all full of cheating these days for a better college application. People will do whatever it takes to cut in line now.
They're not. For some odd reason, the comments on this post are full of bitter people who cannot possibly fathom that brilliant young people not only exist, but also achieve amazing things on their own merits.
> For some odd reason, the comments on this post are full of bitter people who cannot possibly fathom that brilliant young people not only exist, but also achieve amazing things on their own merits.
As opposed to you, who's up and down the thread making unsubstantiated claims and engaging in emotional manipulation to try to discredit (without evidence, I might add) the idea that there's any cheating or subversion going on whatsoever.
The people you're responding to are making far better points than you are.
just google for 'maa math cheating', 'usaco cheating',etc.
there are official statements somewhere that you can probably dig out too.
people were selling the answers before the test for $5 on discord.
my kids are taking these exams, and it saddens/discourages them so much as their classmates are bragging about those $5 answers and got super high scores.
it's a public scandal, just that the media paid no attentions, so far.
I have 5 kindles at home and they're all collecting dusts along with some Alexa and Echo devices, the only thing I need Amazon for is its ecommerce shopping site. The phone just replaces all those gadgets and it probably has nothing to do with Amazon. Still it's a nice move to support ePub and PDFs on kindles.
I bought quite a few courses at udemy, none at coursera though, but I ended up not taking them, instead I used youtube to get some video, and LLM to get the text context these days. Youtube is the true gem, if it spins out of google it could take on netflix at least. In short, google might be undervalued a lot just because of youtube, for entertainment and education purposes.
After Coursera/Udacity/EdX discontinued courses that I wanted to take, or removed access to ones I only partially completed, I switched to buying classes on Udemy. I completed only a handful of many purchases, and the quality level was okay-to-mediocre but better than nothing, so I got more value out of Udemy than Coursera.
I also found that Youtube videos are just as informative as Udemy classes, but they're not always as well structured.
The MOOCs had some pretty cool/interesting university classes that don't exist anywhere else. It's a shame those videos weren't preserved where we can access/purchase them without attending the college.
For a basic crash course in Python, is there anything better than the top rated Udemy course, can YT offer something better ? I really don't mind paying the 12$ it costs on Udemy.
I get so much decision fatigue when choosing a course series on YouTube. On every technical topic, there are like 15 people making courses anywhere from 10 minutes to 10 hours.
well,glib is terrible for anything important, it's really just for desktop apps.
when there is a mem error, glib does not really handle it,it just aborts. ok for desktop, not ok for anything else.
The linked Github seems to have the 2nd edition in the form of notebooks, https://github.com/jakevdp/PythonDataScienceHandbook/blob/ma..., under the Using Code Examples section, "attribution usually includes the title, author, publisher, and ISBN. For example: "Python Data Science Handbook, 2nd edition, by Jake VanderPlas (O’Reilly). Copyright 2023..." compared to the OP's link which has "The Python Data Science Handbook by Jake VanderPlas (O’Reilly). Copyright 2016..."
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