@zarazhangrui We are updating the Machine Learning courses at UC Berkeley (https://eecs189.org/fa25/). That said, the field is changing faster than we can update the curriculum and so the real goal in higher education is (and has always been) helping students learn how to learn quickly and adapt

@profjoeyg 🫡

@zarazhangrui I’ve learned more on X and YouTube then I did in my undergrad and MBA

@Raymond1103SD Exactly, YouTube university

@zarazhangrui the real syllabus is happening online now

@devfaizanali Yes, on YouTube university and X university

@zarazhangrui What are the best youtube channels to keep in the front of technology right now? I mean places you can really learn to get job ready?!? Or other resources…

@trajanorec I made a video about this! https://youtu.be/Fc2jqomTDws?s...

@zarazhangrui where to start?

@l3d1c I made a video about this https://youtu.be/Fc2jqomTDws?s...

@zarazhangrui Having been a professor once, the problem is it takes about a year from course proposal to approval. And a year is a lifetime in AI right now.

@zarazhangrui Stanford and Cal engineering have some good classes, but most other schools are far behind. Self-learning is (and arguably has always been) the only way.

@zarazhangrui The best students have always been great self learners. AI can help more people become great self learners.

@zarazhangrui @BarkulanHub It was always the only way

@zarazhangrui I always felt, the schools that have the best teachers will win in the long run. What you observed is a canary in the coal mine opportunity for non-elite/ currently not-top-ranked-schools to leapfrog the best. The best teachers are in environments where they’re learning as

@zarazhangrui AI is transforming education... https://www.psychologytoday.co...

@zarazhangrui It’s been this way for centuries now

@zarazhangrui Is this anecdotal evidence? if so, it should not and cannot be generalised.

@zarazhangrui "20 year olds tell me they know everything" sounds about right

@zarazhangrui when, in the history of ever, has school material actually been up to day?

@zarazhangrui Yea I mean they’re still teaching cs50

@zarazhangrui Come to MIT. They just hired 50 faculty who are specialized in AI

@zarazhangrui E N G A G E M E N T B A I T I expect you're making this up, or... just talking to folks who are subtly trolling you. I'm sure there's plenty of .edu where this is true, but not those two.

@zarazhangrui which Stanford students have told you this? doesn’t seem very true

@zarazhangrui Lol the credential arms race might be over but the power of networks remain 🥲

@zarazhangrui As Socrates said, no one was wiser than he because he knew he knew nothing. Professors who admit they don’t understand AI may be the only ones truly qualified to teach it.

@zarazhangrui Brown feels very much current

@zarazhangrui That’s unlikely to play out as you imagine. I’m sure lots of professors at the IVY leagues were slow to adopt: PC in the 80s Internet in the 90s Mobile in the 2000s BTC in the 2010s And AI now… The credential game is more entrenched and durable than any new piece of tech.

@zarazhangrui @fncischen see? this is exactly why i want to be a professor. i have a lot of knowledge of how to adapt that you really only see first hand when you work in industry and esp. for emerging technologies.

@zarazhangrui The fact that this still surprises people is saddening.

@zarazhangrui Credentialism was never the way. Value will reorient itself away from broken institutions. Buy bitcoin.

@zarazhangrui This has to be ragebait