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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

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Post by webspiderus »

Panoramix wrote: post #19

I 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.

for what it's worth, if you take the ML class, you will learn most of the things you would learn in the AI class and more - although it does get a bit rigorous, and will take more time than the AI class would. from personal experience, I feel like Ng's class gave me a more thorough foundation in the math behind the concepts, and was more challenging to boot - so I'd recommend it if you're feeling up for it.

Re: Official enrollment for Stanford's online AI class has begun

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Post by webspiderus »

weaksauce wrote: post #20
swah wrote: post #2

Are 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?

Yes I'm in the same boat as you. My AI wasn't taught by Norvig in college( though he was a pretty good professor) so it might be interesting to see a different opinion on what "intro to AI" should consist of. I'm also interested in what the delivery system is going to be like. This might be the way courses are offered in the future.

having taken an AI class (using AIMA) at my undergrad college, I can't say that Norvig co-teaching the class made it all that different - probably the most interesting difference was being able to hear him (and Thrun) talk about real-world applications of the concepts we were covering, be it in Google products or Stanford research.

Re: Official enrollment for Stanford's online AI class has begun

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Post by swah »

AlexC04 wrote: post #11

Does anyone have a link to the other classes? I see from the spreadsheet there are DB (database?) and ML (machine language?) classes as well ?

I thought folks that had already put an email the first announcement would be emailed by now to let us now sign up is open, but I got none.

Re: Official enrollment for Stanford's online AI class has begun

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Post by 5l »

amirmc wrote: post #3

If you've signed up for these classes, how about letting others know here? Perhaps we might be able to form ad-hoc groups to help each other when we're stuck? If I've missed this suggestion in another thread, please let me know. In the meantime, I've made a google spreadsheet so please add your details if you want to find other HN readers taking part. http://bit.ly/pLCRzg Edit: Also found this on reddit - http://www.…

There's also http://www.reddit.com/r/mlclass and http://www.reddit.com/r/dbclass now

Re: Official enrollment for Stanford's online AI class has begun

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Post by mas644 »

vibragiel wrote: post #27

Does anyone know approximately how much dedication would this course require (in hours per week)?

It depends on your background (CS and math are very very useful) and which track you're going for (standard vs advanced). I believe Norvig & Russell's textbook is being used for the class, which is the standard for AI classes at universities and a FANTASTIC textbook. If you skim through it, you can get an idea. I took a similar class in grad school with the same text (I'm a CS major) and sometimes spent 2 hours in a week...sometimes 15. It depends on what you're good at and how much detail they go into.

Re: Official enrollment for Stanford's online AI class has begun

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Post by amirhhz »

amirmc wrote: post #3

If you've signed up for these classes, how about letting others know here? Perhaps we might be able to form ad-hoc groups to help each other when we're stuck? If I've missed this suggestion in another thread, please let me know. In the meantime, I've made a google spreadsheet so please add your details if you want to find other HN readers taking part. http://bit.ly/pLCRzg Edit: Also found this on reddit - http://www.…

Good idea, I put my name on the more detailed spreadsheet. I wouldn't mind being emailed at the address I entered there, if there's any need.

Not sure yet if I'll have time for the DB and ML classes, but I'll try.

Re: Official enrollment for Stanford's online AI class has begun

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Post by amirhhz »

amirmc wrote: post #3

If you've signed up for these classes, how about letting others know here? Perhaps we might be able to form ad-hoc groups to help each other when we're stuck? If I've missed this suggestion in another thread, please let me know. In the meantime, I've made a google spreadsheet so please add your details if you want to find other HN readers taking part. http://bit.ly/pLCRzg Edit: Also found this on reddit - http://www.…

Also found this via the reddit, a study group for Cambridge (UK): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/stanford-online-clas...
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