u/Super_Skill_2153 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Do you have any examples of code smith alumni who took the course portfolio? 4 weeks seems like a laughable amount of time to learn ML and neural network I wonder if student are expected to understand Python and SQL coming in?
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Some alumni have talked to me about the materials yeah. They said they only received the 5 lectures but that the projects weren't done yet. I think the people starting Codesmith now will get the real material for the first time in abouf 2 months. Which is why it's insane to me they are charging $3200 (discounted for the first cohort in Jan) instead of making it free. They both have to iron out the bugs and also have no idea how useful this course will be.
The lectures sound laughable as you said. Like RAG and fine tuning spent defining all of these techniques that were invented in the past year but not really being that useful.
There are some excellent free under the hood YouTube series on AI. There is an amazing one I watched part of that is like dozens of lectures for 2-3 hours each that really explains from basics how everything works, and still often says things alike "this is a simplified graphic to generally understand".
I think they lost their way and arent listening to any feedback, or maybe they are talking to different people than I am.
If you want to start a peer-based ML club or a guest lecture series from experts... make the club public so everyone can benefit and don't charge $4500. The experts have so many public talks online right now, curate those instead.