For those building toy clusters out of Pis for fun and education that 4GB of RAM and gigabit ethernet for $55 is awesome!
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downey
I'm on my 9th class, one more to go. I found that Machine Learning had decent involvement from Isbell (he'd chat with us on Slack) and that Operating Systems and HPC and excellent professor participation -- they would hold weekly office hours (video conferenced) and were active on the forums.
There were 1 or 2 of my earlier classes that did feel phoned in, though (but did have strong TA involvement at least).
Even better when you listen to this while coding: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w097Q0fZE-A
:)
We'll all be speaking APL.
It's okay, but it's no Hipmunk.
And what exactly is Cringely?
"Art for Art’s sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of code, art for the sake of the terminal and the OS, that is the faith I am searching for." - Salvador Dali
Looks very compelling. I'm tempted to try this out... only thing is that I don't want my site to look too cookie-cutter if Syte catches on. :-)