Why Deep Learning Won’t Change My Life - Yale Daily News

A Chobani in one hand and a spoon in my mouth, I open my laptop and go to Coursera.org. I click on “Sequence Models” in my course catalog. Though I have been awake for less than 10 minutes, I feel a wave of adrenalin break in my stomach. Today, I will finish the 5-course Deep Learning Specialization on Coursera, the world’s largest massive-open-online-course platform. I put my earphones on: “In this week, you hear about sequence-to-sequence models, which are useful for everything from machine translation to speech recognition.” An hour and a half later, Andrew Ng, in the same blue shirt that he wore to over one hundred videos of the course, says goodbye with these final words: “Now that you have this superpower, I hope you will use it to go out there and make life better for yourself but also for other people.” I close my Chrome browser and look out my window at the intersection of Crown and Church streets: “Get Carter” buses heave their way through the rain, Gateway Community College

A Chobani in one hand and a spoon in my mouth, I open my laptop and go to Coursera.org. I click on “Sequence Models” in my course catalog. Though I have been awake for less than 10 minutes, I feel a wave of adrenalin break in my stomach. Today, I will finish the 5-course Deep Learning Specialization on Coursera, the world’s largest massive-open-online-course platform. I put my earphones on: “In this week, you hear about sequence-to-sequence models, which are useful for everything from machine translation to speech recognition.” An hour and a half later, Andrew Ng, in the same blue shirt that h