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I have just discovered the acronym MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) and the concept which spawned it.
I had a 12 hour episodic attack of NERDS GONE WILD !!![^]
It might have lasted 24 hours for all I know.
One thing I do know is that my hard drive now has several dozen gigabytes of video files which will easily keep me occupied for weeks, months, and quite possibly for another year.
With such good luck on finding a course that I've been wanting for years (for free, by a learned lecturer, from a well known university) I set out to find other MOOCs that would transform me into a genius (and, of course, the hottest commodity in the job market) for free.
I turned to the wisdom of the internet; specifically the search engines; and hit the SEO wall.
(SEO is an acronym for "Super-Egregious Obfuscation", a process by which the internet becomes useless)
So, now I know...
-- Good stuff is out there
-- It is being given away for free
-- SEO totally hides it from me
So once again we see economics and various business models which ruin the beneficial economics of a highly beneficial business model.
So,,,,,
Question 1: How do I really go about searching for other meaningful courses while they are still out there and still free ?
Question 2: Where do I find a psychotherapist who is experienced with cases of Nerds Gone Wild !!! if I am successful at finding my cornucopia of endlessly flowing knowledge which is clearly explained ?
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Welcome to the MOOC club. MIT courses are usually great, TED talks are also good resources.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I saw the The M.I.T. YouTube Page [^] and it truly looked like good stuff to me.
I spent nine minutes with their MIT OpenCourseWare 1800 Event[^] video which they placed on that page; the one that contains the interview with Dick K.P. Yue.
I really tune in with his ideas about what this OpenCourseWare biz means to somebody like him; i.e., a kid who was truly "on the outs".
The M.I.T. courses are fantastic, but I really flipped my wig when I came across a course from Cornell.
My searches for other material from Cornell produced zero and a little bit less.
The thought hit me: I should first be looking in my own back yard, i.e., my own school, my alma mater from the Pleistocene days.
The results from that were not exactly zero, but close enough for me. It reminded me of the Calculus definition of the word "limit". There were four links to the concept of MOOCs. I found no real material.
Huh ??? Shouldn't every single college in the USA be doing this ???
For that matter, shouldn't high schools be doing this ? Elementary Schools ?
What part of the equation am I missing ?
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My first half hour with the M.I.T. site (and their YouTube channel) left me overwhelmed.
This isn't as easy as buying stuff off of eBay.
The searching is the problem.
i.e., I can't figure out how to ask the proper question to find the introductory course(s) (and subsequent intermediate and advanced ones) on the topics I want to learn.
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I've used Coursera [^] for a few courses as well as edX [^] which both have an amazing number of free courses. They also have an ID verification system for some courses so you get a certificate at the end. (Though I think they charge a small fee for those.)
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I just received notification that my recurring tickets picked up a win on the 13th and has been paid to my bank account.
Logged into my account to see the prize of £65. Woo I thought, must have been a 4 ball match.
Oh, How wrong was I.
1 x 4 Ball Match @ £15
2 x 3 Ball Match @ £25 each.
WTF? You get less money for matching 4 balls than you do for matching 3.....Also the prize fund available is rubbish, think Camelot have broken the whole system, last last change of doubling the ticket price was a screw up as far as I can work out.
Maybe time to let Branson have it.
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Doesn't it depend on how many others also made similar matches?
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Yep. I'm not fond of it anyway - I can do the math, just like you can - but Herself refers to it as "her retirement fund" so I have to buy the stupid thing.
And when they doubled the price, I halved the number of tickets. By the look of the prize amounts, so did everybody else... 
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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This afternoon I had a flexi-first-four on a 14 donkey race at Tamworth, NSW:
1st: 2,4,6,9
2nd: Field
3rd: 7
4th: Field
I put $60.50 on for a return of 11.45%
Results:
9: $5.10 $1.90
12: $15.40
7: $3.80
3: $3.20
Dividend was $86,000 
I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly
"I have sexdaily. I mean dyslexia. Fcuk!"
Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife
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It's because the 3 ball pay out is fixed at £25 and the rest of the prizes are from the remaining prize pool.
Because all of the numbers were 31 or under and most people play dates as their numbers there were 60% more 3 ball winners than normal.
This meant the remaining prize pool was much, much less than normal.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: 60% more 3 ball winners than normal
which also probably explains why Dave won 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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"He will get you over to Spooners cheerful enthusiast."(8)
Quite simple.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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He will get you over
to Spooners cheerful enthusiast : MERRY FAN
FERRYMAN
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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I must have seen it before and it stuck in the back of my mind.
Weird.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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It happens!
Gawd knows why I Googled it after I'd got it - I don't even read the ToryGraph, never have!
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Has anyone tried the Maxthon browser? I often try out different web browsers, but usually the more well known ones. Today I stumbled across this one which I had never heard of before, so I decided to try it out, and so far I'm pleasently surprised.
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I usally use chrome for my daily work, have firefox also installed. A few weeks ago, I installed that one and I was also surprised: It starts up lightning fast, is rock solid. I am going to keep it up.
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Their website doesn't work over HTTPS which instantly makes me not like them (I have an addon which forces everything over SSL where possible)
What's the deal with this browser anyway? Have they built it themselves or is it a fork of Chromium/Firefox or something?
Edit: Tried to install, the downloader stayed at 0% for too long, gave up!
modified 15-Aug-14 4:16am.
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I use it a lot, and am dead chuffed with it.
A well as a lot of little tweaks that are well handy, it's got a great selection of plug-ins, superb configuration and page sharing across devices, it's quick as you like, and has a nifty browser-core switch.
Downsides are minimal control over cookies (delete all or delete none), I'm not crazy with the basic dev tools (which I don't use, anyway, because TextPad is still the best for that, IMO), and a typo ("uncorrectly") on the advanced configuration page (hey, sh1t like that is important!).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It is defined as a ... cloud browser. Interesting concept.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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