I am in a class right now, we'll call it "Not Machine Learning", that is driving me crazy. There is a very low correlation coefficient between the homework questions that are assigned in Not Machine Learning and the topics that are covered in lecture. The lectures also seem to be aimed at the One Annoying Guy (OAG) who sits in the middle and asks intricate questions rather than aimed at everyone else, who collectively have no idea what is going on. Then there are the programming assignments, which went from:

Assignment 1: Fill in the blank of this basic C code

to

Assignment 3: Write your own multithreaded C application

Without much in between. On the newsgroup, there are many threads by one person (possibly OAG) about topics that are way out of the scope of this class and apparently have something to do with his job.

I took this class because I felt like my knowledge of how Unix and Linux and such really worked (and my ability program in C) was severely lacking, but assuming I complete Not Machine Learning I'm not really sure that I will have gained anything in either category.