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Re: Artificial Intelligence Lecture Videos

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inovica wrote: post #19

I have a side project to monitor the homepage of every domain and I want to detect the type of site - ecommerce, blog, forum etc. I've just started on it and ultimately I want to be able to automatically extract data, such as product information from ecommerce sites. Would these videos help here or is there anywhere else that someone would recommend. I know I sounds very naive here... and I am, but there might be som…

It is possible for subject recognition, but the data extraction would be much more difficult. For the simplest subject recognition, you would need a corpus with all the kinds of subjects that you want to recognize, and many examples of each. It would be very tough as a first project in machine learning.

Edit Note: I'm very new to machine learning as well, but this is what I've gathered so far.

Re: Artificial Intelligence Lecture Videos

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westbrookt wrote: post #21
inovica wrote: post #19

I have a side project to monitor the homepage of every domain and I want to detect the type of site - ecommerce, blog, forum etc. I've just started on it and ultimately I want to be able to automatically extract data, such as product information from ecommerce sites. Would these videos help here or is there anywhere else that someone would recommend. I know I sounds very naive here... and I am, but there might be som…

It is possible for subject recognition, but the data extraction would be much more difficult. For the simplest subject recognition, you would need a corpus with all the kinds of subjects that you want to recognize, and many examples of each. It would be very tough as a first project in machine learning. Edit Note: I'm very new to machine learning as well, but this is what I've gathered so far.

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Re: Artificial Intelligence Lecture Videos

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Post by FT_intern »

o2l wrote: post #12
zardo wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a great introduction to the broader world of AI, but you will barely skim the surface of ML.

What would you recommend then ?

If you don't have a statistical background (or haven't taken Stats 101), I would go with some Stats 101 class first

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Post by finin »

asimuvPR wrote: post #18
todd8 wrote: post #6

I took this class given by Prof. Patrick Winston a while back, 43 or 44 years ago. I liked it so much back then, it served me well in grad school and for many years after. Next week I'm visiting with an AI company on behalf of potential investors.

You took the class 43-44 years ago? Is that a typo? If not, mind sharing more about your experience?

I took his AI class, 6.258, 45 years ago, in the Spring of 1971. It was probably the first or second time he taught it. He's a great teacher and inspired me to focus on AI. One aspect I remember was that our exams were all take home exams that we had several days to work on. They were great learning experiences.

Re: Artificial Intelligence Lecture Videos

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Post by objclxt »

inovica wrote: post #19

I have a side project to monitor the homepage of every domain and I want to detect the type of site - ecommerce, blog, forum etc. I've just started on it and ultimately I want to be able to automatically extract data, such as product information from ecommerce sites. Would these videos help here or is there anywhere else that someone would recommend. I know I sounds very naive here... and I am, but there might be som…

> ultimately I want to be able to automatically extract data, such as product information from ecommerce sites

A little OT, but although you could probably train models to figure that out, many (if not most) eCommerce sites should already be tagging their sites with semantic tags for product information, since it assists with indexing for search engines.

Here, for example, is the Schema.org for a product (https://schema.org/Product).

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Post by kennethfriedman »

byebyetech wrote: post #26
icpmacdo wrote: post #16

Lecture 15 is really really worth watching through, even if your not familiar with the previous lectures https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

Just wondering why do you recommend this particular lecture so highly ?

I'm guessing, because the back half of the lecture has some great life lessons in it.

Re: Artificial Intelligence Lecture Videos

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Post by kennethfriedman »

Professor Winston (the lecture in these videos), also teaches a higher-level, seminar based AI reading class called "The Human Intelligence Enterprise".

It too, is an incredible class. Here's the schedule & linked papers from last semester: https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.803/schedule.html

(Disclaimer: Professor Winston is my current advisor)

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