Official enrollment for Stanford's online AI class has begun • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by cshesse » Wed, Aug 31, 2011, 8:39 AM UTC

Evgeny wrote: post #50

The "terms and conditions" checkbox was not enabling the "Register" button for me under IE7. It works under Chrome though.

Try using IE9 instead

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

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Post by hermanthegerman » Wed, Aug 31, 2011, 10:15 AM UTC

jetbean wrote: post #5

Interesting, did anyone who subscribed receive any news via email about the registration being opened ? I didn't.

No, although I subscribed the first time. I read it here ;-)

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

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Post by steve_b » Wed, Aug 31, 2011, 2:19 PM UTC

Is there a way to buy a pdf version of the text? From the links at http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ I got:

CourseSmart: eTextbook rental. Amazon: Kindle version. Nook: eTextbook. not sure if I can download pdf cause you have to sign up to find out. Cafe Scribe: cafe scribe format. Kno: format only works on iPad.

Edited for formatting.

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

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Post by kroger » Wed, Aug 31, 2011, 8:53 PM UTC

steve_b wrote: post #63

Is there a way to buy a pdf version of the text? From the links at http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ I got: CourseSmart: eTextbook rental. Amazon: Kindle version. Nook: eTextbook. not sure if I can download pdf cause you have to sign up to find out. Cafe Scribe: cafe scribe format. Kno: format only works on iPad. Edited for formatting.

And does anybody know why the kindle version is not available outside the USA? I'd prefer to buy the kindle version, but since I can't I'm thinking about buying at Kno. Any experiences with it?

Edit: WTF? I just discovered that the Kno ipad App is not available outside USA as well (at least not in my location).

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

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Post by charlieok » Sun, Sep 04, 2011, 3:24 AM UTC

benhamner wrote: post #51

ansy wrote: post #40

Why does this require students to submit a birthday? This seems like an unnecessary disclosure of personal information.

I imagine they want demographic data on who's taking the course. If you were running a large-scale education experiment, wouldn't you want to be able to measure how things are going and account for variables such as gender, age, and education level? I bet they are going to look at location as well, via IP addresses.

...and as we just learned, this is enough info to uniquely identify you, even without your name :)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2942967