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Jordan Boyd-Graber Ying
CMSC470 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/31/2022 |
Never take his class. Wait it out till another Professor teaches 470. He is very arrogant and looks down at UMD students, flaunting his Ivy League background. I mean sure, but why crush the confidence of students like you are literally a faculty at the same place you look down upon? He is also very image conscious and will make sure that he does not have to take critical decisions while showing no empathy for students during the COVID-19 waves. He does not give class lectures and there are videos already up on his class, so what is the point of attending the class? His coding assignments were weird with no semblance to latest ML and NLP industry practices. Also he teaches a very obsolete part of Q&A like yeah okay, then rename the course as Q&A not NLP. He has this weird obsession about trivia competitions like not every person in NLP has to do trivia. His class was one of the absolute worst at UMD. |
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Jordan Boyd-Graber Ying
CMSC726 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/19/2017 |
Does a flipped classroom, which is a lot of work but is good if you hate lecture. Knows the material well, but sometimes makes little errors in class. Has some odd quirks (for example, always wears red on Monday, yellow on Tuesday), but seems to care about students. Leaves grading completely to TA, who can be slow. Fairly easy grader, but course is tons of work. |