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Re: NLP Class is live

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Post by packetslave » Tue, Mar 06, 2012, 6:56 PM UTC

Rotor wrote: post #4

Finally! This class was supposed to start in January 2012, hopefully all the technical kinks are worked out. Does anyone know what the issue was? I believe all the Stanford online learning classes were affected.

My understanding is it wasn't technical issues, but rather legal/political wrangling with Stanford that affected both Coursera and Udacity's courses.

Re: NLP Class is live

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Post by Homunculiheaded » Tue, Mar 06, 2012, 6:59 PM UTC

Rotor wrote: post #4

Finally! This class was supposed to start in January 2012, hopefully all the technical kinks are worked out. Does anyone know what the issue was? I believe all the Stanford online learning classes were affected.

I believe the issues were administrative and legal rather than technical. My impression was that once the Stanford administrative bureaucracy got wind of what was happening with these courses, what started as a fun and entrepreneurial "let's change education" turned into much paper work and long meetings. I've found this is the typical academic response to anything truly innovative ;) (I also think this is partly why Thrun walked away from his tenure, to simply be able to work on changing the world without having to worry about all of the rest of it)

Re: NLP Class is live

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Post by dutchbrit » Tue, Mar 06, 2012, 7:10 PM UTC

Estragon wrote: post #10

dutchbrit wrote: post #5

I got all excited for a minute and thought this was about Neuro Linguistic Programming. :) Still, sounds very interesting - I should definitely check it out!! (wasn't so excited when I saw it was a different NLP - but got excited again when I found out wat it was)

No loss, Neuro Linguistic programming is a fraud anyway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming#Cr...

Do you have any experience with NLP?

Re: NLP Class is live

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Post by dhawalhs » Tue, Mar 06, 2012, 7:10 PM UTC

dhawalhs wrote: post #2

Cryptography http://www.crypto-class.org/ and Design and Analysis of Algorithms I http://www.algo-class.org/ class are live too. I maintain a list of all these courses from Coursera, Udacity and MITx at http://www.class-central.com

Game Theory http://www.game-theory-class.org/ and Probabilistic Graphical Model http://www.pgm-class.org/ are going to start on March 19th.

Source: https://twitter.com/#!/coursera

Re: NLP Class is live

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Post by pawelwentpawel » Tue, Mar 06, 2012, 7:35 PM UTC

There is a circle on gplus for the game theory course students - http://ow.ly/9utYw

Anybody wants to create hn one for algorithms/nlp? Might come up quite useful.

Re: NLP Class is live

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Post by tareqak » Tue, Mar 06, 2012, 7:49 PM UTC

Seems like we have to sign up again, but with a Coursera account. There is also a Terms of Service to read through too.

Edit: This is just an observation. People who signed up at the end of last year might be out of the loop.

Re: NLP Class is live

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Post by knowtheory » Tue, Mar 06, 2012, 7:53 PM UTC

dutchbrit wrote: post #13

Estragon wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No loss, Neuro Linguistic programming is a fraud anyway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming#Cr...

Do you have any experience with NLP?

Do you need experience with something that obviously doesn't make sense in order to point out that it obviously doesn't make sense?

Even the name Neuro-Linguistic Programming doesn't even make any sense.

Re: NLP Class is live

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Post by Estragon » Tue, Mar 06, 2012, 7:54 PM UTC

dutchbrit wrote: post #13

Estragon wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No loss, Neuro Linguistic programming is a fraud anyway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming#Cr...

Do you have any experience with NLP?

Yes, I read Bandler and Grinder extensively and experimented with their techniques in the 80s, starting with happening across The Structure of Magic in the local university library, and ending, IIRC, with Using Your Brain For a Change, which includes transcripts from one or more of Bandler's workshops, and convinced me that he was a bullying fraud.

By then it was already clear that NLP concepts had no solid empirical or theoretical foundation and in any case did not improve my life in any way, but I was young and desperate enough for relief from the problems in my life that I held on to their promises way past any rational limit.

Re: NLP Class is live

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Post by upgrayedd » Tue, Mar 06, 2012, 7:56 PM UTC

pawelwentpawel wrote: post #15

There is a circle on gplus for the game theory course students - http://ow.ly/9utYw Anybody wants to create hn one for algorithms/nlp? Might come up quite useful.

So far there's a few forums for these new online classes, like the AIqus site[0], Udacity forums for CS 101[1] and CS 373[2], and a lot of IRC channels, the main hubs being at #free-class, #udacity, and #mitx on irc.freenode.net[3].

There's individual channels for each course as well, for Coursera courses they follow the pattern of the class url preceded by an octothorpe, so for the Design and Analysis of Algorithms I class at http://algo-class.org for example, the IRC channel for it is #algo-class. For the Udacity courses, they follow the pattern of ##udacity-, so for example ##udacity-cs101 and ##udacity-cs373

[0] http://www.aiqus.com/

[1] http://www.udacity-forums.com/cs101/

[2] http://www.udacity-forums.com/cs373/

[3] http://webchat.freenode.net

Re: NLP Class is live

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Post by jiggy2011 » Tue, Mar 06, 2012, 8:10 PM UTC

This is great, I have enrolled for this and for the algo course.

I have never studied NLP but I did an algo class at a brick university some years ago.

This being stanford however I am a little worried that my theory/math skills may not be up to the standard but I am hoping to wing it and brush up on what I need as I need it.

Wish me luck!