I'm all for the increasing availability of free online education, but it's interesting to note I'm paying 50 grand (partially) for this...
Official enrollment for Stanford's online AI class has begun
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Re: Official enrollment for Stanford's online AI class has begun
#42I'm all for the increasing availability of free online education, but it's interesting to note I'm paying 50 grand (partially) for this...
You're really paying for a degree from Stanford. You can get a similar course for much cheaper at a state school. Or now, online for free!
Re: Official enrollment for Stanford's online AI class has begun
#43I don't know whether to take this course or the machine learning one. The both seem very interesting, but I only have time for one. I don't care much about robots, and was partly sold by Ng's separating music from background. OTOH I want to learn Bayes networks and natural language processing. I'd appreciate any advice.
I know that I hardly have time for one of them, but greedily want to try all three. I wonder if there is an expectation for the course to be available again, or at least provide the full materials afterwards. And if there is a penalty for failing/dropping out of them due to time constraints.
You can find some of the materials for last year's ML class at http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs229/.
CS 221 had a similar one, although it got taken down recently. I imagine you'd at the very least be able to access the materials while the class is ongoing or shortly thereafter for archival purposes.
Re: Official enrollment for Stanford's online AI class has begun
#44I'm all for the increasing availability of free online education, but it's interesting to note I'm paying 50 grand (partially) for this...
I think there's no doubt that you'll have much more resources at your disposal (like proper office hours) if you are actually enrolled at Stanford.
if nothing else, part of your 50 grand is also paying for the fact that our career fairs are always super crowded :)
Re: Official enrollment for Stanford's online AI class has begun
#45There are a lot of Stanford CS classes available online. Here's a list of the best ones according to Stanford CS majors - http://raunk.com/list/669,682,1364,2394,2395?filter=4,5
Re: Official enrollment for Stanford's online AI class has begun
#46Are we gonna do this? I took AI in college but it was so-so, and I was thinking about doing this again. Anyone in a similar situation?
Signed up!
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#47I like that they separated it into basic/advanced, originally I was thinking of signing up and skipping the homework when I didn't have free time for it, but now I can just do the basic and not feel bad :)
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#48Why does this require students to submit a birthday? This seems like an unnecessary disclosure of personal information.
I would say gender should be irrelevant too ...
Re: Official enrollment for Stanford's online AI class has begun
#49I love how stanford is doing this for the public -- especially empowering those who really can't afford a degree but really want to enrich their education desires. +1 to Stanford for pushing this and the instructors and TAs who will be dedicating their time to make this happen.
On a side note, I'm deciding to take this class or the ML one. In my line of work, I do believe that the ML class will be more beneficial but the AI one seems way more interesting.
Re: Official enrollment for Stanford's online AI class has begun
#50The "terms and conditions" checkbox was not enabling the "Register" button for me under IE7.
It works under Chrome though.