Dear FIX,
There're two main parts of this email.
First Part: Announcement 2:
We're on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/mung.chiang.5
Or you can search for "network20q@gmail.com" or for "Mung Chiang" (but pick the one that's for this course, rather than the instructor's personal account).
Friend us (we'll accept all requests) or Subscribe to us (we opened subscriber mode).
We'll use Facebook for two things:
1. Post and share lighter moments in the course (for homework/lecture help, coursera forum is the way to go). Prior experience suggests that people talk about the course in different ways on Facebook than on a course forum.
2. Organize local study groups through Facebook group/events. As Mung (the instructor) goes on business trips, he'll also try to schedule in-person meetings with local groups when the travel schedule allows, to hear directly from you on thoughts about the course content and the learning experience.
So we'll create Open Groups on Facebook, starting tonight with a Washington DC group and a Boston group, as Mung will be available to meet on Sept. 20 evening in Washington DC and on Sept. 24 in Boston (assuming there's a reasonable number of you in those cities who are interested and available to meet up). You can join those groups and indicate availability for the event starting tonight.
Second Part: Clarifications (based on your feedback):
A. Certificate: Princeton University's general policy on coursera as of now is that it will not sign certificates. We will want to see how you do in quizzes and homeworks and exams that will be provided on coursera. And we will have two alternative mechanisms to reward the excellent students in the course: Grand Challenge Homework and Kudos. More on these in later emails this week.
B. Prerequisite: If you want to understand 100% of all the lecture modules, you'll need linear algebra and multivariable calculus. If you're OK with skipping the parts of the modules (usually module D or E in each lecture) that assume these tools, you'll still get about 80% of the course material (and coherence across lectures) without these prerequisites. In May 2013, we'll have a version of the course that only uses additions and multiplications and nothing more.
C. YouTube video volume: Earphone or speaker should work well. We'll adjust the volume soon too.
That's it for this email.
We'll be shooting you one email every day this whole week, leading up to the Sept. 17 launch. Each day we'll talk about a feature of the course. Today's about Facebook groups. You'll see another feature in tomorrow's announcement.
Talk to you then.
Mung Chiang (chiang.coursera@gmail.com)
and Network FMB Teaching Staff at Princeton
(Follow us on Twitter @network20q too!)
Coursera classes are back up
Dear Students,
Today, GoDaddy (our domain registrar) suffered from a service outage which resulted in millions of sites going down. Unfortunately, www.coursera.org was one of those.
GoDaddy's servers are still recovering, but we've since switched to using Amazon's domain name services instead. Our site was down for a few hours in the transition period but everything should be back to normal now, though you might encounter a few residual issues as our domain name changes propagate through the internet.
You can read more about the GoDaddy outage here.
We apologize for the inconvenience. Thank you for bearing with us as we were working to restore access!
Yours,
The Coursera team
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POEMA ESCRITO POR ÉL:
Qué feliz soy amor mío!
pronto estaremos casados,
el desayuno en la cama,
un buen jugo y pan tostado.
Con huevos bien revueltitos,
todo listo bien temprano.
Saldré yo hacia la oficina
y tú rápido al mercado.
Pues en sólo media hora
debes llegar al trabajo,
Y seguro dejarás
todo ya bien arreglado.
Tu bien sabes que en la noche
me gusta cenar temprano.
Eso sí, nunca te olvides
que yo vuelvo muy cansado.
Por la noche, teleseries,
Cinemateca barato.
No iremos nunca de shopping,
ni de restaurantes caros,
Ni de gastar los dineros,
ni despilfarrar los cuartos.
Tu guisarás para mi,
sólo comida casera.
Yo no soy como a la gente
que le gusta comer fuera...
¿No te parece, querida
que serán días gloriosos?
y no olvides que muy pronto,
yo seré tu amante esposo.
RESPUESTA ESCRITA POR ELLA
Que sincero eres mi amor!,
Que oportunas tus palabras!
Tu esperas tanto de mí
que me siento intimidada.
No se hacer huevos revueltos
como tu mamá adorada,
se me quema el pan tostado....
de cocina no se nada.
A mi me gusta dormir
casi toda la mañana,
ir de shopping, hacer compras
con la Mastercard dorada,
Tomar té o el cafecito
en alguna linda plaza,
comprar todo de diseño
y la ropita muy cara.
Conciertos de Luis Miguel,
cenas en La Guacamaya ,
mis viajes a Punta Cana
a pasar la temporada.
Piénsalo bien, aún hay tiempo,
la iglesia no está pagada.
Yo devuelvo mi vestido,
y tú, tu traje de gala.
Y el domingo bien temprano
para empezar la semana
pon un aviso en el diario,
con letra bien destacada:
'HOMBRE JOVEN Y BUEN MOZO
BUSCA UNA ESCLAVA MUY LERDA
PORQUE SU EX FUTURA ESPOSA,
AYER LO MANDÓ A LA MIERDA !!!!!!
Dear FIX,
Today's announcement is on a brand new feature I'm creating for Networks FMB:
Grand Challenge Homework: We'll throw in about 10 GCHs throughout the semester, each is an open-ended, important, and challenging project statement. Might be proving a theorem, might be creating a design, might be writing a piece of code, all about some of these 20 Questions. Associated with GCHs is
Investor and Industry Partners: In this IIP pilot program, I've talked to about 5 venture capital firms and 5 networking companies that are on the frontier of network technology innovation, and they've agreed to work with me on defining GCHs and then (after I skype the semi-finalists) talk to the finalists about their solutions to GCHs. They may fly in the finalists for an interview. This may lead to a new job, a new product, or a new company.
Here're the VCs (two in Silicon Valley, two on East Coast) in IIP with this course:
Artiman Ventures,
Hudson Ventures,
Osage Partners,
USVP.
And companies:
ASSIA Inc. (startup founded by John Cioffi, the father of DSL),
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs,
AppliedCommunication Sciences (part of the former Telcordia/Bellcore),
HP Labs,
Qualcomm.
A couple of more soon to be confirmed.
Think of it this way: you have access to education material now, with GCH and IIP you'll have access to career-changing opportunities.
But this is also demanding (and entirely optional): I don't expect more than 100 serious GCH submissions, or more than 20 semi-finalists. But if you're interested and you pour yourself into it, you'll find it very rewarding.
Now what about the other 37900 students enrolled in the course who do well, write great blogs, help others with questions, etc? We'll soon announce a virtual reward system geared towards them.
That's it for this email.
We'll be shooting you one email every day this whole week, leading up to the Sept. 17 launch. Each day we'll talk about a feature of the course. Today's about GCH/IIP. You'll see another feature in tomorrow's announcement.
Talk to you then.
Mung Chiang (chiang.coursera@gmail.com)
and Network FMB Teaching Staff at Princeton
(Follow us on Twitter @network20q too!)
More FIX on the NET @ FIX University Cultural Campus
Buenos días Comunidad de Usuarios Oracle de Colombia:
Este es el enlace para que accedan a la conferencia de Java 7, Un año después http://www.asuoc.org.co/asuoc/streaming.php . Llas personas que nos acompañen de manera presencial recibirán un certificado de asistencia.
Ciudad : Cali
Lugar : Universidad Icesi – Edificio D , primer piso, auditorio Varela S.A.
Hora : 04:00 p.m a 05:30 p.m
Los esperamos!
Tertulia El Palabreo, jueves 13 septiembre
Recital de poesía
Jueves 13 de septiembre
Organiza El Palabreo
Lugar Biblioteca Departamental
Hora 6:30 p.m