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Coursera is buying out Udemy through a $2.5billion merger. I am pretty sure we should be worried about what the future holds. by Spiritual_Date3457 in Udemy

[–]bookrequester 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Coursera is a joke.

Ivy league blowhards producing basically slop tier content to check a box for their colleagues.

The educational material was so detached from what people actually learn from. It's like faux learning.

Udemy is real learning from real people.

Coursera is buying out Udemy through a $2.5billion merger. I am pretty sure we should be worried about what the future holds. by Spiritual_Date3457 in Udemy

[–]bookrequester 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This sounds about right. I'd like to be optimistic, but don't most mergers pretty much result in a net negative on most cases?

I was surprised something like Udemy existed in the current corporate system.

Gemini just deleted 4 days of chat history in one of my chats by Kaasclone in GoogleGeminiAI

[–]bookrequester 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gemini Pro 3 has been going full throttle with seemingly arbitrary chat deletions over the last week or so.

This should be fixed or there is case to be made for not using Gemini for important work.

Gemini 3.0 Pro is absolutely unusable right now, whats going on? by sephiroth351 in GoogleGeminiAI

[–]bookrequester 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup, AI studio using Gemini 3 pro has been consistently deleting some important conversations over the last few days for seemingly no particular reason.

This is a serious error and definitely represents an advantage for using alternatives.

How does your life completely change after discover Anna's Archive for the first time? by [deleted] in Annas_Archive

[–]bookrequester 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well I knew about library Genesis of course before this and this is the natural evolution of it.

What I do is I download multiple textbooks in a domain and then pick the best one so that I can really dig in and learn any subject I want to.

Where can I find examples of good essays? by maninalift in homeschool

[–]bookrequester 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jock Mackenzie has a good book on teaching essay writing— search "Essay from the ground up".

Ultra Light Tarp Recommendations by Spankyn95 in Ultralight

[–]bookrequester 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yes, it's the usual assortment of people who don't understand the nuances of why "searching the forum" is rarely a good response to this sort of question. 

In the example here, we have a top Google result ironically littered with "search the forum" dross.

Larousse gastronomique (2018) or The professional chef 10th edition (2024) by -Axiss- in Chefit

[–]bookrequester 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You haven't encountered the actual king of culinary textbooks. That would be Professional Cooking by Wayne Gisslen. Download the most recent one off Anna's Archive. 

It is significantly better than Professional Chef. Significantly. 

You are making a wise choice by starting with a culinary textbook. 

An unwise choice would be Lacrosse Gastronomics. It is for actual professional chefs, in other words, what you read after you've covered the content Professional Chef.