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Stanford Fall 2011 - Machine Learning

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Re: Stanford Fall 2011 - Machine Learning

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Post by webspiderus »

qu wrote: post #10
webspiderus wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I ended up taking the Norvig AI class after this one and felt that a large majority of the material was also covered in the ML class, but usually more rigorously in the latter and as a means to more interesting stuff. If you feel like covering the material with a definite mathematical bent, I would recommend checking out this class.

so you are saying this class is more practical and that one is more bent on mathematical theory?

I would say that the AI class is a good overview for the field of AI - but Machine Learning is a good in-depth discussion of the machine learning approaches, which will generally also expose you to a lot of other related AI concepts.

Re: Stanford Fall 2011 - Machine Learning

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Post by qu »

webspiderus wrote: post #11
qu wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

so you are saying this class is more practical and that one is more bent on mathematical theory?

I would say that the AI class is a good overview for the field of AI - but Machine Learning is a good in-depth discussion of the machine learning approaches, which will generally also expose you to a lot of other related AI concepts.

Thanks for that info. Now I think I will not formally enroll in the intro to AI and focus more on ML class. Since I can only truly focus on one such class at a time it would be best to enroll in something I can apply directly.

Re: Stanford Fall 2011 - Machine Learning

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Post by rubergly »

I've been meaning to follow along with the online collection of lectures from this course at some point, so I guess now's the time to actually dive in. I'm interested to see how a very rigorous course will be adapted to something that looks very similar to the Khan Academy model.

Re: Stanford Fall 2011 - Machine Learning

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Post by DavidMcLaughlin »

Note for anyone signing up for this who has been in industry for a while: the prerequisites for this class really are prerequisites and it can be quite difficult to follow along if you're too busy trying to get your head around the basic math. You can check out the existing lectures on iTunes U to see what I mean.

Completing the Khan Academy playlists for Linear Algebra and Probability would be pretty useful if you want to be prepared in time for October.

Re: Stanford Fall 2011 - Machine Learning

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Post by khookie »

webspiderus wrote: post #11
qu wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

so you are saying this class is more practical and that one is more bent on mathematical theory?

I would say that the AI class is a good overview for the field of AI - but Machine Learning is a good in-depth discussion of the machine learning approaches, which will generally also expose you to a lot of other related AI concepts.

Thank you for your input here - I was considering the same question as well (AI vs. ML).

Re: Stanford Fall 2011 - Machine Learning

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Post by fgimenez »

Like a few other people here, I took this class recently. I did well, but I don't feel like I truly understand material until I teach it.

That being said, if anybody here has questions on the material, I'd love to help you out in some way. Unfortunately, there is no personal messaging feature on HN, so we might have to resort to emails (or maybe a subreddit?).

I realize there is an official class forum, so please tell me if you have any interest in some sort of 3rd party support system :-)

Re: Stanford Fall 2011 - Machine Learning

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Post by espeed »

fgimenez wrote: post #19

Like a few other people here, I took this class recently. I did well, but I don't feel like I truly understand material until I teach it. That being said, if anybody here has questions on the material, I'd love to help you out in some way. Unfortunately, there is no personal messaging feature on HN, so we might have to resort to emails (or maybe a subreddit?). I realize there is an official class forum, so please tel…

Is there a Google Group?
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