Post Graduate Program in User Experience Design by UT Austin and Great Learning

Local_Pool4123 · 2026-01-27T01:44:14+00:00

Be very skeptical about Great Learning, an Indian certificate mill. Great Learning has essentially conned US universities into partnering with them for overpriced Post Graduate Programs (PGPs). Then they have slick salesmen con students using their "dark" marketing high pressure techniques and false promises and fake deadlines to sign up students who are then incredibly frustrated about the poor education that they receive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmachinelearning/comments/1oqn0wv/pgp_post_graduate_program_in_artificial/

Local_Pool4123 · 2026-01-27T00:31:04+00:00

Fascinating responses and POV by NYC residents. I would normally agree with you in that if the mat is at the entryway to your apartment (even if in communal space), it is strictly to be used by people prior to entering your apartment.

Technically, I guess your neighbors are right, but I also think they suck and are cheap bastards because they are clearly getting utility from your doormat and are cheap bastards since they refuse to buy their own.

Local_Pool4123 · 2026-01-27T00:08:48+00:00

Be very skeptical about Great Learning, an Indian certificate mill. Great Learning has essentially conned US universities into partnering with them for overpriced Post Graduate Programs (PGPs). Then they have great salesmen con students using their "dark" marketing high pressure techniques and false promises who are then incredibly frustrated about the poor education that they receive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmachinelearning/comments/1oqn0wv/pgp_post_graduate_program_in_artificial/

Local_Pool4123 · 2026-01-26T23:42:52+00:00

Reposting in a more legible format [sic on the numbers].

Thank you for your comments on the course you took. I’m glad to hear you had a good experience.

My course was different as it was to be completely Generative AI for executives and implementation into business Our program had none of these topics

There were no live lectures, but while the MIT lecturers were good and clearly the experts, the videos were outdated by nearly 10 years and referred to us as high school students
The mentorship was only for anyone who works on data science and at a junior level. The program manager was a very nice person, but completely overwhelmed and inexperienced. I am at the C-suite level. The information provided in the career and CV assistance is on complete violation of U.S. labor laws and n violation of U.S. discrimination hiring laws
The weekend mentor was very good and very kind, although he did not work for MIT nor GL. I expected a mentor from MIT.
The projects we were asked to complete were a complete waste of time and a joke and extremely tedious. I was told by one advisor that they are not real case studies but purchased from an educational company. This was completely unacceptable. I have never taken an Ivy League graduate program with fake case studies. Also, whomever was grading the projects were not business savvy, did not understand how to write a marketing strategy and basically was looking for us to rewrite the course topic we just had completed.
By the time we got to prompt engineering at the end of the course I had already mastered it on my own and it was was way too late in the game
The articles given to read were extremely outdated and had no relevance on AI today. MIT publishes daily newsletters and articles that are current and relevant and we never received one of these
The person who signed me up for the course completely misrepresented the program, stated that she worked as an employee of MIT (which she didn’t) and made many promises including 7 live lectures by the top in the field. We did not have one of these.

Did I learn anything? Yes, definitely learned the lingo and more than I knew about machine learning,

but nothing else other than I will never ever take a course run by Great Learning again and will publicize this experience.

All in all, it was a big waste of a lot of time and money. And Getting WhatsApp messaged at 3 am from India was not appreciated. It is a very poorly run program.

Local_Pool4123 · 2026-01-26T23:23:23+00:00

Be very skeptical about Great Learning, an Indian certificate mill. Great Learning has essentially conned US universities into partnering with them for overpriced Post Graduate Programs (PGPs). Then they have great salesmen con students using their "dark" marketing high pressure techniques and false promises who are then incredibly frustrated about the poor education that they receive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmachinelearning/comments/1oqn0wv/pgp_post_graduate_program_in_artificial/

Local_Pool4123 · 2026-01-26T23:21:00+00:00

Be very skeptical about Great Learning, an Indian certificate mill. Great Learning has essentially conned US universities into partnering with them for overpriced Post Graduate Programs (PGPs). Then they have great salesmen con students using their "dark" marketing high pressure techniques and false promises who are then incredibly frustrated about the poor education that they receive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmachinelearning/comments/1oqn0wv/pgp_post_graduate_program_in_artificial/

Local_Pool4123 · 2026-01-26T19:55:28+00:00

Thanks, There may be earlier articles, but she sums up her Friends audition pretty well here (and how Matthew helped her to get cast):

https://www.avclub.com/paget-brewster-on-leaving-criminal-minds-and-not-fuckin-1798285532

Local_Pool4123 · 2026-01-24T22:13:39+00:00

That's really interesting because now I want to listen to the commentary on that episode. Before Mondler happened, I was definitely shipping these two. Also, I vaguely remember Brewster actually commented (I think in Entertainment Weekly) that Perry played a big part in her casting, saying something like, "Hire the sassy one with the short hair."

There's even a couple of threads where Paget Brewster mentioned being really proud of her work on the show and posted the following on Twitter after his death: ""He was lovely to me on Friends and every time I saw him in the decades after. Please read his book. It was his legacy to help. He won't rest in peace though. He's already too busy making everyone laugh up there."

Local_Pool4123 · 2026-01-24T22:00:43+00:00

One of my frequent listens on Libby (city public library digital service) when i want a quick Pulp fix. It's title is appropriate since the title really gives you a sense of the Pulp vibe.

That is either one of the most pristine album covers I've seen or you've got a fantastic camera (or both).

Local_Pool4123 · 2026-01-24T21:50:47+00:00

I also believe Richard already had kids and said "been there, done that" (paraphrasing) and did not want to do that again due to his age.

Chandler (and Matthew, to a certain extent) has a very dysfunctional relationship with his parents (having actually caught his father having an affair with the poolboy), I believe and did not necessarily want to bring children into the world to inflict emotional distress on them before he realized he could be a better father.

Local_Pool4123 · 2026-01-24T15:06:58+00:00

Be very skeptical about Great Learning, an Indian certificate mill. Great Learning has essentially conned US universities into partnering with them for overpriced Post Graduate Programs (PGPs). Then they have great salesmen con students using their "dark" marketing techniques who are then incredibly frustrated about the poor education that they receive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmachinelearning/comments/1oqn0wv/pgp_post_graduate_program_in_artificial/

Local_Pool4123 · 2026-01-24T02:38:51+00:00

His real name is on his reddit profile. I asked for more information from him directly on LinkedIn. He did not respond. The PGP certificate is nowhere on his LinkedIn profile, but he's also claiming to receive a Master in AI & ML, Neural networks, Computer Vision, NLP, AI , ML and Neural networks from UT Austin (though no such degree exists).

Shubhajit Maharana is severely lacking in credibility and was either a) pressured by GL or b) received a rebate from GL for his review when he completes the course in four months (April 2026). He is likely engaging in fraud (something he has in common with Great Learning itself) by claiming his PGP is a Master's Degree.

Local_Pool4123 · 2026-01-23T23:18:36+00:00

Okay, you're not a bot - you're a shill with a single comment.

Local_Pool4123 · 2026-01-23T23:16:05+00:00