Prof. Peter Shor's teaching style is frightening

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I'm currently learning quantum computation on edx. I don't mean unrespectable, but Prof Shor is just not suitable for teaching. I guess he maybe a little nervous around students. Anyhow, he is still a great computer scientist.
 

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The problem here is that some folks are great for cutting edge fields and through their papers teach their colleagues who go on to create more organized content to teach to students.

QC is an exploding field and it’s hard to tell the hype from reality and people are struggling to learn whatever they can and so Prof Shor, a great researcher has attempted to get the ball rolling as the foremost expert in the field. It’s just that these concepts are very hard to master and there’s no machine available to do them on other than the IBM site and perhaps a few others.
 
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jedishrfu said:
The problem here is that some folks are great for cutting edge fields and through their papers teach their colleagues who go on to create more organized content to teach to students.

QC is an exploding field and it’s hard to tell the hype from reality and people are struggling to learn whatever they can and so Prof Shor, a great researcher has attempted to get the ball rolling as the foremost expert in the field. It’s just that these concepts are very hard to master and there’s no machine available to do them on other than the IBM site and perhaps a few others.

I agree. I guess the students could be as confused as I do. I see there were less interaction between students and Shor than with Chuang. Shor jumps too quickly, and I think many may not follow him well. But, anyway, I'm glad I can peak how those genius see those new areas. I mean, I can still get some interesting ideas from Shor's lectures.
 
Vanadium 50 said:
THat'a pretty harsh, especially since MIT makes this available for free. Are you suggesting they shouldn't?

Oh, I must apologize, if I made any disrespect. I appreciate MIT for those free lessons and those hard work from every professor.