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I bet ~5% will complete the course

here is the number of views for Andrew Ng's Intro to machine learning course on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzxYlbK2c7E )

lec 1, 206612

lec 2, 91234

lec 3, 49000

lec 4, 36823

lec 5, 27782

lec 6, 26347

lec 7, 22075

lec 8, 20713

lec 9, 15665

lec 10, 14142

lec 11, 16573

lec 12, 14296

lec 13, 12401

lec 14, 15022

lec 15, 12290

lec 16, 10760

lec 17, 8986

lec 18, 13639

lec 19, 10219

lec 20, 11373




These lectures are also available on iTunes U. It would be interesting to compare the number of YouTube views to the number of iTunes downloads. I watched the first two classes on YouTube, and downloaded the rest on iTunes, though admittedly I'm still only on lecture 6.


This sort of thinking is supported also by the fact that the number of views is not strictly decreasing.


thats a ton more people than the usual number of stanford enrolled students, it's a win for education in my book.




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