Monday, November 24, 2025

AI Master's Degree, $2.5K @Udacity, accredited!?

Education is/will be changing, fast, with help of AI

Udacity started as MOOC provider, and now matured and acquired by Accenture.

Masters Artificial Intelligence @Udacity
During Black Friday sale, you can earn a fully accredited
Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence for $2,500.
Visit the Master's page to view which Nanodegree programs you could be earning credit for.
55% off, ends 11/28



Woolf is named after Virginia Woolf, the visionary 20th-century writer
who championed education as a pathway to freedom and empowerment.

example


Introduction to Artificial Intelligence | Udacity (free course by Peter Norvig & Sebasian Thrun)


How does this work (my understanding):
- Udacity subscription provides access to any of available courses and "nano-degree" (groups of courses).
- Those courses have evaluations and projects, required for competition, on your pace. 
- The estimate on duration is based on estimated time spent per class, that may vary
- projected $2500 cost for 2 years is based in "bundle 4-month subscription" $96/month * 24 + $199 one-time enrollment fee = $2503
But that math is not correct, since only first 4 months get %15 discount,
after that it switched to monthly charges of $112 USD each, total comes to $2887

"Estimated cost for full program when working 27 hrs/week"
27 = 3*5 + 6*2 (i.e. 3 evening hours on work days, 6 hours on weekend days, significant time commitment)







Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has completed the acquisition of Udacity, a digital education pioneer with deep expertise in the development and delivery of proprietary technology courses that blend the flexibility of online learning with the benefits of human instruction. The acquisition underscores Accenture’s ongoing commitment to meeting the needs of its clients amid a changing workforce, in particular by helping their people gain essential industry-specific training and technology skills and achieve greater business value in the AI economy.
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go-sqlite3: SQLite.c => WASM => Go

SQLite is the most widely deployed and used DB, by far.
Included in every mobile devices/OSs, most of desktop devices,
even in web browsers and many apps.

SQLite written in C (only 60K lines!)
and can be used directly from Python and JavaScript, 
since those languages are built with C/C++.

But Go language compiler is written in Go, 
and to "link" modules written in C would need to use "cgo" (C version of Go complier).
To avoid this complication when building Go apps using SQLite
can use SQLite complied to WASM (WebAssembly), that is directly supported by Go.

Would be interesting to compare performance...

ncruces/go-sqlite3: Go bindings to SQLite using wazero @GitHub

Go module github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3 is a cgo-free SQLite wrapper.
It provides a database/sql compatible driver, as well as direct access to most of the C SQLite API.

It wraps a Wasm build of SQLite, and uses wazero as the runtime.
Go, wazero and x/sys are the only direct dependencies.
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