There was a lot of controversy about him exploiting the people working for him and he publicly doubled down on admitting the need to overwork them.
Imo, Andrew Ng is actually a cool guy. He started coursera and deeplearning.ai to teach ppl about machine/deep learning. Also, he does a lot of stuff at Stanford.
I wouldn’t put him in the corporate shill camp.
maniclucky@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I took several of his classes. At the very least he’s an excellent instructor.
elliot_crane@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He really is. He’s one of those rare instructors that can take the very complex and intricate topics and break them down into something that you can digest as a student, while still giving you room to learn and experiment yourself. In essence, an actual master at his craft.
I also agree with the comment that he doesn’t come across as the corporate shill type, much more like a guy that just really loves ML/AI and wants to spread that knowledge.
AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Same, I went from kind of understanding most of the concepts to grokking a lot of it pretty well. He’s super good at explaining things.