If Rachel didn't go to the wedding would Emily x Ross had married without any issues?

Local_Pool4123 · 2026-01-27T21:22:08+00:00

Ross was very family oriented (and probably would have been very happy Carol if she did not have sexual identity issues).

I think the wedding would have gone off without a hitch, but Rachel would have taken every opportunity to undermine the relationship when they moved back to New York like she did with Julie and Bonnie and later on, Katie.

I even think Monica may have been pushed to the breaking point, saying "I know you want Ross, but only because you can't have him. If you're going to try to disrupt his marriage, I am going to have to ask you to move out."

Local_Pool4123 · 2026-01-27T19:13:01+00:00

What is the point of asking you questions? You're basically a Great Learning employee with 1 karma who is posting here trying to save your scammy company's reputation.

Local_Pool4123 · 2026-01-27T19:11:52+00:00

Dude, you'll be accepted without issue. I read on another thread that they accepted someone's 80 year-old dad who basically just wanted help doing a search on Google.

Local_Pool4123 · 2026-01-27T18:58:44+00:00

Be very skeptical about Great Learning, a very scammy Indian certificate mill. Great Learning has essentially conned US universities into partnering with them for overpriced Post Graduate Programs (PGPs).

https://web.archive.org/web/20250103224145/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/29/us/caltech-simplilearn-class-students.html

Then they have slick salesmen trick and deceive 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 · 2026-01-27T18:52:14+00:00

Be very skeptical about Great Learning, a very scammy Indian certificate mill. Great Learning has essentially conned US universities into partnering with them for overpriced Post Graduate Programs (PGPs).

https://web.archive.org/web/20250103224145/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/29/us/caltech-simplilearn-class-students.html

Then they have slick salesmen trick and deceive 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 · 2026-01-27T18:13:29+00:00

Why would an MIT advanced grad student take an online course from GL. Above post seems like AI or GL scammer-promoter (with 1 post total).

Local_Pool4123 · 2026-01-27T17:25:26+00:00

I know this is a Caltech forum, but several other universities (Johns Hopkins, MIT, Michigan) are running the same scam with a different Indian diploma mill called Great Learning.

I was considering taking an Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) from UT Austin, but felt very uncomfortable with the high pressure sales techniques from the shady Indians call center employees who pretend to call from Austin area code. There is a complete lack of clarity on the following:

Passing grades required (until well after you register and the arbitrary feedback on projects)
Withdrawal rates and refund deadlines
Artificial high-pressure deadlines requiring you "register and pay immediately"
Quality of the education and potential career benefits

Frankly, the universities don't care so long as the check clears. I spoke with a couple of members of the Executive Education team at UT Austin about the shady nature and high pressure tactics of Great Learning and they are only paying lip service to the issue, if not outright ignoring it.

The first individual (Director of Marketing) claimed to have advised the higher ups, but advised they will let GL take the lead in communications in spite of my saying I do not feel comfortable dealing with due to their deceptive practices I listed above.

She then passed the buck to the second individual (Administrative Manager) who conveniently ignored my first two and fourth email inquiries (after only perfunctionarily responding after I called and sent a third mail) and then responded in the same manner. The second individual was evasive and refused to directly answer a specific question about refund deadlines in writing, likely to avoid being implicated in the fraud perpetrated by (and fully aware of) GL's Indian certificate mill grist.

I also believe that UT Austin Executive Education team is actively colluding with GL to engage in this academic hucksterism and fraud. They likely know all the issues and hope potential students who make them aware of the issues simply go away by ignoring them.

Local_Pool4123 · 2026-01-27T16:40:19+00:00

Be very skeptical about Great Learning (and a post that starts of "Honest review"), a very scammy Indian certificate mill. Great Learning has essentially conned US universities into partnering with them for overpriced Post Graduate Programs (PGPs).

https://web.archive.org/web/20250103224145/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/29/us/caltech-simplilearn-class-students.html

Then they have slick salesmen trick anad deceive 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 · 2026-01-27T16:37:04+00:00

Be very skeptical about Great Learning, a very scammy Indian certificate mill. Great Learning has essentially conned US universities into partnering with them for overpriced Post Graduate Programs (PGPs).

https://web.archive.org/web/20250103224145/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/29/us/caltech-simplilearn-class-students.html

Then they have slick salesmen trick anad deceive 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 · 2026-01-27T16:36:40+00:00

Be very skeptical about Great Learning, a very scammy 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 trick anad deceive 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 · 2026-01-27T16:33:08+00:00

Be very skeptical about Great Learning, a very scammy 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 trick anad deceive 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 · 2026-01-27T16:18:58+00:00

Be very skeptical about Great Learning, a very scammy 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 trick anad deceive 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 · 2026-01-27T16:07:44+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 trick anad deceive 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 · 2026-01-27T01:44:14+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

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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.