When I first started my gradient descent into that hell hole (just kidding) called Machine Learning, I discovered a cast of teachers hitherto not on my radar, Siraj among them. My first response was one of annoyance, but that didn't last. Nowadays I have a healthy respect for the Siraj Youtube corpus and recommend them without hesitation to anyone I think might be entertained by his somewhat manic style.
Speaking of manic, another quirky teacher I highly respect is Daniel Shiffman, who covers a lot of the same topics in Machine Learning. I was learning from both teachers today. Even though I'm mostly looking at ML / AI through the lens of Python, I'm happy to watch Shiffman coding in Java and Javascript.
With teachers as entertaining and as intelligent as these, I'm thinking the threat of AI is not that serious, or at least not as serious as the threat of serious learning opportunities on-line, to traditional schooling. You'd rather ride a bus half across town to enjoy far more restricted access to information? I guess that's your right. Just realize a lot of kids are rocketing ahead, as peer groups, not just as solo scholars. Homeschoolers may rule, in generation Z (or have we rolled around back to A, B... already?).
These two teachers are not the only superstars out there, even limiting the sample to the few I know about. However they're among the best in the knowledge domain I'm currently exploring. That just tells you I like it quirky. Demented even.
Followup on October 1, 2018: they co-appeared! [deleted Youtube]
Follow-up on April 5, 2020: still a Siraj fan but I'm seeing the pushback. Socratica is another channel I freely advertise, along with my own channel. Outside of those topics, I've watched hours of DefunctLand.
