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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 davidtgoldblatt »

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.

My impressions: CS 221 (AI) is taken mostly by sophomores and juniors who are interested in AI, but come from all areas within CS. CS 229 (ML) is taken mostly by juniors and seniors who are on the AI track. CS 229 has a reputation for being the harder class. I get the idea that people come out of 221 with a knowledge of what techniques are out there so that they can accomplish simple tasks and know where to look when they need to learn more, and that people come out of 229 with a relatively firm foundation to solve ML problems (at least, as firm a foundation as you can get in 3 months in a large and difficult field).

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

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Post by weaksauce »

allanchao wrote: post #33

I can't find any list of prerequisites for this class, though their FAQ https://www.ai-class.com/registration/faq implies that there are some. Does anyone know if this class is noob friendly? (as in someone with no CS or programming background)

Doubt it's going to be too hard but maybe not noob friendly. The "basic" level of the class at least should be accessible for the most part. It will cover some probability theory in the beginning so if you have a grasp of that already but forgot it this will help. It looks like machine learning is going to be a larger focus than in the AI class I took so you will need to know linear algebra as well.

Here: http://robots.stanford.edu/cs221/ is the outline with the prereqs and the schedule of topics.

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

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Post by msluyter »

allanchao wrote: post #33

I can't find any list of prerequisites for this class, though their FAQ https://www.ai-class.com/registration/faq implies that there are some. Does anyone know if this class is noob friendly? (as in someone with no CS or programming background)

Here are some suggestions of preparatory material:

http://www.aiqus.com/questions/4/hey-guys-what-are-some-prer...

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

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Post by sambe »

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.

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.
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