I read the posts trying to find the claim "equivalent to a Bachelor's degree" and couldn't. I asked the tweet author; no answer. This is a sensationalist tweet FWIW
To clarify: I’m not suggesting every job in IT, or even most of them, require a university degree. What I’m saying is that you can’t compress 4 years to 0.5, even if you’re Google.
Hiring has told us that a university education can be valuable, and also that it’s not a necessary pre-requisite. Those things can both be true at the same time.
To clarify: I’m not suggesting every job in IT, or even most of them, require a university degree. What I’m saying is that you can’t compress 4 years to 0.5, even if you’re Google.
I was wondering why I find this less than appealing. I think it’s because it seems to me basically Google is giving a giant fuck you to “classical” education, assuming it can do in 6 months what everyone else needs 4 years to do. I remain unconvinced Google can do magic.
Google is launching Career Certificates. It will cost $300 only, you can complete in 6 months and Google will consider it equivalent to 4 years Bachelors degree when you will apply for a job at Google - Data Analyst, Project Manager, UX Designer etc - grow.google/certificates/
This really is the most embarrassing thing Microsoft has done in a long, long time. My respect for the company had grown over the last few years, but this really damages it badly
In dieser Folge hat @MichaelStal mir erklärt, was KI/AI/ML/DL (und was es noch so alles an netten Zwei-Buchstaben-Akronymen gibt) für Software-Architektur bedeutet. Ich fand‘s sehr lehrreich.
Haven’t checked it out in detail yet, but isn’t it just another domain other than your own, with all the problems that come with that, just like Medium?
NEW: @YouTube confirms it is discontinuing its community captions feature, which allowed viewers to contribute subtitles to other channels to make videos accessible to #deaf and hard of hearing people.
The tool will be retired on 28 September 2020.
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