peregrine.io | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | ONSITE Founded in 2018, Peregrine provides public safety agencies with technology to make data-driven decisions, power real-time operations, and strengthen community relationships. We do this through openness, accountability, careful policy enforcement, and respect for people’s personal freedoms.

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Thanks, this project uses Ruby on Rails 5 with Webpacker (React). I've found making websites quickly with Rails is very effective. The data can be found on Google BigQuery and I then used Scrapy to scrape Amazon pages for further product info. It's deployed to a DigitalOcean node and connects to an Amazon RDS Postgres instance.

The conception of the idea was Tuesday. The next thing I knew it was Saturday, and I felt ready enough to post.

Thanks for the details.

> The conception of the idea was Tuesday. The next thing I knew it was Saturday.

That's amazing! You turned your idea into an MVP in 5 days. Very impressive.

Agreed this is amazing and inspiring. Well done!

Thanks! I'm looking forward to iterating. The suggestions you lay out are great. I'll hopefully be adding features / changes as time goes on. This was an initial MVP in order to get feedback quickly, and it worked! Appreciate the thoughtful response.

Yes, amazon dominates the product links, so it was easiest to start with that. In the future though, I'd love to add more.

Are you guys hiring outside of the UK? Specifically, are you hiring from the US?

I'm sorry if I made it confusing, but it really isn't about whether I signed up for 229 or 229a, the point is most of my classes for the coming term are now under this new online format and it would be shame to see them lower their standards to fit the public.

It's a good point -- I guess we'll find out next semester if the difficulty being below average had to do with the nature of the class itself (the a in 229a) or the audience it was being developed for. I hope, if the classes you mention are listed under the same course number they always have, that the difficulty won't be less than usual.

For the rest of us, what classes are these? Part of the reason an easier class is better for the public is because there's just less time for working people. If the difficulty/time commitment for the offered classes next semester are substantially more than 229a I'd imagine you'll see a much higher dropout rate not due to lack of ability but due to lack of time. It seems odd Stanford would try to pack a "real" course into the online/public format, but at the same time seems odd they'd dilute a "real" course for their undergraduates.

The easier assignments are easier because they now have morehints alongside.

this i guess is not to ease for lazy slobs (what you described :) but to ease the demand for help on the staff.

The critic is that they overdid

I agree, but would prefer to keep the standards high for the public rather than see the courses separated. I enjoyed the first few ml-class lessons, but I quickly became bored with the difficulty level.

But should classes be hard for being hard's sake, or should they be hard when learning the material requires it?

CS229a didn't exist prior to the online courses.

Then it seems like there isn't so much a problem and the course is plausibly performing its intended function. Obviously the course was designed by Stanford to fill some role; unless you think that the course had a design flaw only detectable once it got rolling, then the best assumption would be that your expectations were wrong.

Of course, you could certainly have asked, as a Stanford student, what drove the design of the course and how the professor actually felt about the execution. That would have been an interesting follow up.

Class meetings were optional (which I did attend) and only a fraction of the students actually attended. I don't have a problem with cs229a being easier than 229, but the thing is a lot of other classes have now turned to the online format with no alternative (like 229 to 229a). Selfstudy is great, but sometimes the best way to learn is from a structured class.

<i> Selfstudy is great, but sometimes the best way to learn is from a structured class</i> Well lots of people might like to be treated like grown ups and not like the structured classes and who knows they might even write a letter asking for refund

I'm surprised you think being in a structured class is equivalent to being treated like a child. What school did you go to that did this?

I do not think structured classes is equivalent to being treated like a child.

It was intended as a general comment that some people might not like it and equate it like that based on his comment that only a fraction people actually attended it and maybe if it was made compulsory they might not like it and there is a probability that they will say that.

Just a point that what ever you do there will be some group that will not like it .

I agree with with zuck knuth comparison perhaps I too quickly wrote the first two names that came to my head. As for the image, I like to make people think I go outside...

Ah good catch!