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Re: NLP Class is live

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Post by Joeboy » Tue, Mar 06, 2012, 8:19 PM UTC

scarface548 wrote: post #8

I just watched 'About the Course' Video, it felt awkward, looked like professor Jurafsky was reading from a blackboard. Also wondering if people taking the course planning to apply any of it in their daily work.

> wondering if people taking the course planning to apply any of it in their daily work

The company I work for is planning to create or buy in some kind of customer facing knowledge base app with support for NLP queries, which is a large part of the reason I registered.

Re: NLP Class is live

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Post by redschell » Tue, Mar 06, 2012, 9:14 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

Any news on Machine Learning? I'm starting to lose hope.

Re: NLP Class is live

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Post by lars » Tue, Mar 06, 2012, 9:24 PM UTC

redschell wrote: post #22

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

Any news on Machine Learning? I'm starting to lose hope.

No need to lose hope. There already was an (excellent) machine learning class last semester, so they should have the material ready.

Re: NLP Class is live

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Post by mark_l_watson » Tue, Mar 06, 2012, 11:21 PM UTC

Today I watched the first lecture and started on the first assignment. I have all of Chris Manning's books and have read them, and I just ordered Dan Jurafsky's book on Amazon.

I have been doing NLP for a long time, and I expect to get a lot out of this class.

I liked the style of the introductory lecture, well done, and the way they have the auto-graded programming assignments set up looks slick.

Re: NLP Class is live

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Post by buddhika » Tue, Mar 06, 2012, 11:52 PM UTC

jiggy2011 wrote: post #20

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!

I don't think there's any need to worry. I was very much interested in Machine Learning and took Stanford course last year and prof. Andre Ng made it look so easy with focusing on practical aspect. Now I have a grasp on how things work practically it's easy to get going with the theoretical aspect (with mostly maths) and following CS229 full video set covering the original course.

Anyway good luck!

Re: NLP Class is live

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Post by chiurox » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 12:01 AM UTC

With so many online courses happening concurrently, how are you guys choosing which courses to actually do? I work full-time and I find it really hard to squeeze some free time.

Re: NLP Class is live

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Post by fionabunny » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 12:24 AM UTC

chiurox wrote: post #26

With so many online courses happening concurrently, how are you guys choosing which courses to actually do? I work full-time and I find it really hard to squeeze some free time.

Me too, but I've signed up for most of them anyway. It's risk free and the only reward is personal: knowledge.

Re: NLP Class is live

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Post by chiurox » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 12:46 AM UTC

fionabunny wrote: post #27

chiurox wrote: post #26

With so many online courses happening concurrently, how are you guys choosing which courses to actually do? I work full-time and I find it really hard to squeeze some free time.

Me too, but I've signed up for most of them anyway. It's risk free and the only reward is personal: knowledge.

I signed up for almost all of them too. It's hard to choose which ones to fully dive into. I guess since they'll probably offer them again and again, I'll take one/two at a time.

Re: NLP Class is live

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Post by seancron » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 2:08 AM UTC

redschell wrote: post #22

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

Any news on Machine Learning? I'm starting to lose hope.

It's on hold. I got the email an hour ago:

  Thank you for your interest in Machine Learning. A launch date for this course
  is currently on hold. I am excited to offer our material online for free. We
  apologize for the delay and will be sure to let you know when we confirm a date
  for this course to go live. In the meanwhile, you might check out the five free
  online Stanford courses that will go-live on March 12 and March 19 at www.coursera.org.

  Thank you for your interest.

  Andrew Ng
  Machine Learning

Re: NLP Class is live

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Post by DennisP » Wed, Mar 07, 2012, 2:18 AM UTC

redschell wrote: post #22

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

Any news on Machine Learning? I'm starting to lose hope.

All the material's still online, if you want you can just go ahead and start on it. I started yesterday. http://www.ml-class.org/