Stanford's new CS 312 grades 85% on predicting experiment outcomes, 0% on homework
stanfordnlp · x · 2026-09-13
Stanford NLP launched CS 312: Deep Learning Alchemy by Tatsunori Hashimoto, built on the premise that prediction equals understanding: assignments count for 0% of the grade, while 85% comes from 40-minute quizzes where students see a code diff for an experiment they've never run and must predict validation loss differences. All materials are public, in the style of CS336.
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