Andrej Karpathy forced to take down Stanford CS231n videos (reddit.com) 17 points by raajg 10y ago ↗ HN
[–] chriskanan 10y ago ↗ Karpathy claims that the reason for the take down is due to 6 reasons given to them: "Closed captions, forms for students/invited speakers, potential copyright material, "quality/brand", ..."He doesn't give the last two reasons.Universities have been sued in the past for the lack of closed captions for lectures: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/education/harvard-and-mit-...It would be great if the material was closed captioned, but it seems wrong to deprive everyone else of it for that reason. [–] return0 10y ago ↗ CCs are the easiest to fix in this case [–] current_call 10y ago ↗ Isn't that six reasons?
[–] mavelikara 10y ago ↗ The course in question is "CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition" - http://cs231n.stanford.edu/.
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[ 5.8 ms ] story [ 21.8 ms ] threadHe doesn't give the last two reasons.
Universities have been sued in the past for the lack of closed captions for lectures: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/education/harvard-and-mit-...
It would be great if the material was closed captioned, but it seems wrong to deprive everyone else of it for that reason.