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Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund

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Re: Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund

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Post by smaddali »

superfx wrote: post #89
cr0sh wrote: post #5

I look at announcements like this, and past ones about Ng, and I always marvel at how things have gone since I took and completed his 2011 ML Class... That was one helluva course, challenging and interesting, and fun all at the same time (and so much "concretely" - lol). From what I understand, that course is still available thru Coursera (which Ng booted up after the ML Class experiment; Udacity was Thrun's contribu…

I took CS221 from Andrew in 2006 (or was it 2007?) Even more has changed since then ;-) It was my second ML course, after taking Daphne Koller's punishing CS229. Right then though I knew ML will sweep the world pretty soon.

i thought Daphne Koller taught CS228. probabilistic graphical models. It was very very grueling when i took it in 05.

Re: Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund

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Post by ForHackernews »

cr0sh wrote: post #5

I look at announcements like this, and past ones about Ng, and I always marvel at how things have gone since I took and completed his 2011 ML Class... That was one helluva course, challenging and interesting, and fun all at the same time (and so much "concretely" - lol). From what I understand, that course is still available thru Coursera (which Ng booted up after the ML Class experiment; Udacity was Thrun's contribu…

Abu-Mostafa's Learning From Data[0] was more more rigorous, in my experience. It's a full-fledged Caltech course, sometimes taught on EdX concurrently with on-campus sessions.

The Ng class was a good introduction, but it was mostly applications, not the mathematics and theory behind them.

[0] https://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html

Re: Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund

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Post by superfx »

smaddali wrote: post #101
superfx wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I took CS221 from Andrew in 2006 (or was it 2007?) Even more has changed since then ;-) It was my second ML course, after taking Daphne Koller's punishing CS229. Right then though I knew ML will sweep the world pretty soon.

i thought Daphne Koller taught CS228. probabilistic graphical models. It was very very grueling when i took it in 05.

Oh yes my bad. I meant to say I took Andrew's CS229, and Daphne's CS228. I never took CS221.

Re: Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund

#104

Post by zitterbewegung »

emerongi wrote: post #37
cr0sh wrote: post #5

I look at announcements like this, and past ones about Ng, and I always marvel at how things have gone since I took and completed his 2011 ML Class... That was one helluva course, challenging and interesting, and fun all at the same time (and so much "concretely" - lol). From what I understand, that course is still available thru Coursera (which Ng booted up after the ML Class experiment; Udacity was Thrun's contribu…

It's still available. I've been taking it for the past month or so. After learning more about him, he's probably the only person in the world that I envy. I resonate with his ideas a lot, but I'm like 1% of what he is. It makes me a bit sad. I'll be taking his new course as well and hopefully one day I will be able to work in the same field as him.

You should focus on what you can do to make yourself a better person. Anyone on earth can compare themselves to another person and get the sense they feel inferior . Wherever You Go, There You Are.

Re: Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund

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Post by thoughtpalette »

emerongi wrote: post #37
cr0sh wrote: post #5

I look at announcements like this, and past ones about Ng, and I always marvel at how things have gone since I took and completed his 2011 ML Class... That was one helluva course, challenging and interesting, and fun all at the same time (and so much "concretely" - lol). From what I understand, that course is still available thru Coursera (which Ng booted up after the ML Class experiment; Udacity was Thrun's contribu…

It's still available. I've been taking it for the past month or so. After learning more about him, he's probably the only person in the world that I envy. I resonate with his ideas a lot, but I'm like 1% of what he is. It makes me a bit sad. I'll be taking his new course as well and hopefully one day I will be able to work in the same field as him.

Imposter Syndrome is pretty common in CS/Software dev. I try to recognize it for what it is when I feel it and move along.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome

Re: Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund

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Post by korzun »

rjtavares wrote: post #92
resu_nimda wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes in the most general sense, a "data set" could be anything, but I'm talking about the highly curated and labeled data sets that are used to train contemporary ML systems. You can feed a million images that are labeled "cat" or "no cat" to one of these systems and it can achieve a human-level proficiency at identifying cats in images. But, it won't be able to do anything other than identify cats, it's far too narro…

Have you ever seen a child learn how to speak? He also needs loads of "labelled" data to initially learn about concepts.

Are you comparing a child learning to speak with a set of conditional statements?

Re: Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund

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Post by white-flame »

Danihan wrote: post #27
sh33mp wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He spent a couple of years in Singapore, so I'm going by the pronunciation there. (May be different in different regions, and I'm not sure about his preferred pronunciation now). It would do something like this: Start with the word "urn". Now don't drag it out, make it short. Make the "n" and "ng" sound at the end (urng). Now take out the "r" sound (uhng). It seems like Americans do tend to pronounce it "ehng" instea…

In the video it sounds like "ooge". Similar to "rouge" or "stooge" but cropped short. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUO3Pk0nOCM

Sounds like "ng" to me. In english, we can say "mmm" or "nnnn" as drawn-out sounds on their own, just do the same with "ng".

Re: Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund

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Post by ThomPete »

thinbeige wrote: post #85
fiatjaf wrote: post #21

If he had called it AICOIN he could have raised much more.

My thought before opening this thread. I thought the AI hype is over again but apparantly not.

Andrew NG believes that AI is just as important as electricity. I tend to agree.
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