cardine

Anyone else taking either of these classes?

Right now I'm taking the full version of the AI and Machine Learning Class:

Machine Learning - Fall 2011
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - Fall 2011

For those of you who don't know, Stanford is offering their Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence classes for free online for anybody who wants to take them. I've been using tons of machine learning algorithms in my own projects/businesses without actually knowing what they are, and in many cases have been exploring unchartered territory in AI. I'm looking forward to both classes; AI has been a big interest of mine.

If anyone else is taking any of the Stanford AI classes hit me up. Also in the upcoming months, if you are taking the course, feel free to hit me up with questions.

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Rage9

This looks super cool! +rep

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Kiopa_Matt

Well, I am now. Thanks for the links!

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+rep. Thank you for sharing. Would be taking them if I will be able to manage my time properly. Don't want to miss the nice opportunity.

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KevR1025

I am taking the Machine learning class. I work on an analytics team, so my employer is giving me 2 hours a week to study/work on the course. Looking forward to it.

wacek

I'm in as well

Thanks for sharing!

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Taking the ML class, will probably have some Q's for you in the future

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Interesting, 4 hour exams though, that's brutal!

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There's actually a 3rd one that is given for free: Introduction to Databases

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Kiopa_Matt

If the videos for the first lesson on Machine Learning that are available are any indication, that 4 hour exam will probably be 1 hour for most of us. This better get really hard, really quick, or I'm going to get bored and lose alot of respect for Stanford.

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+rep cardine

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tacoX

Nice links there... especially considering I watched Matrix again last night with my gal.

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CitizenSmif

Thanks for posting

Can anyone confirm what sort of certification do you get if you pass? Or is it mainly just for personal development and worthless CV wise?

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The part I read wasn't really a certification but described as something along the lines of . . .

Statement of completion will be issued with a description of how you did and how you compared with the rest of the online crowd?

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LiamGallagher

REP+ for you. AI, NLP and Machine Learning are topics I'm interested into.
Along with Linear Algebra, those topics are extremely interesting for me, even more if tha knowledge is applied to SEO. Thanks a lot for the links.

joevis

to what end

CitizenSmif

Gonna sign up to the Database and ML course.

We need to get a private forum set up for WF'ers for this.

Is it just the AI, ML and DB courses available? I see they have introduction to computer science as a free course, but they just give you the content/exams/solutions etc and doesn't really get you anything at the end of it.

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juntao65

signed up for database. let's see how long i last before I forget about it.

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Supergeek

Signed up for ML earlier today. Apparently this is making the rounds.

Too bad they don't all share the same login system.

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Just incase this makes a difference to anyone, this is from the ToS;

Enrolled in both the ML and DB classes. Shoot me a PM if you actually intend to finish either course and want to have someone to discuss the content with.

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heroiceric

Just finished school.. Signed up for the DB and AI courses.

Deliguy

When I was cleaning out my storage room the other day I found some of my old tests and quizzes from college...Nope don't feel like going through that daily kick in the nuts again anytime soon, not even an introductory class.

Ya'll have fun and let us know how it goes please.

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i miss stanford

fekfek

what bot are you using ryan?

Rexibit

Cool links. Will definitely sign up when I have more time.

For now, I've been reading through .

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Anyone got any idea if you need a programming background to do something like this? I'm trying to learn more languages, but atm I can only code html/css & a little bit of javascript.

Rexibit

The syllabus mentions game AI, and practical applications - so some programming knowledge would be required/a plus. It also says that the course (being a 200 level) is aimed at advanced undergraduate - low-level graduate students. Those students have typically had at least 2-3 programming courses.

I suggest you give the video tutorials at TheNewBoston – Free Educational Video Tutorials on Computer Programming and More! a viewing. They are each between 5-10 minutes long, so you can get a good understanding relatively easily and apply it.

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Uptime

As an aside to the AI & ML courses the "Introduction to Databases" class is very basic and should be no trouble grasping if so inclined. You may be well past that skill level but if not it goes nicely with what we do.

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heroiceric

From the overview of the AI course:
"Programming is not required, however we believe it will be very helpful for some of the homework assignments. You may write code in any language you would like to (we recommend Python if you are new to programming) and your code will not be graded. For example, a question might ask for 6 answers to the same problem but with varied inputs or parameters. You are welcome to work each one out by hand, however writing a program might be both faster and give you a better understanding of how the algorithm works."

That being said, it's kind of hard to wrap your head around some of the basic CSC concepts without playing around with them to see how they work (for me, at least). They recommend Python if you're new but I'd also recommend checking out Ruby. If you have a Mac you've already got Ruby installed.

We used this book in my first intro to CSC class The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Learn to Program and I found it pretty easy to follow, and I had never done any programming before. THat book uses Ruby.

I've purchased a few books from the Pragmatic bookshelf and I've found them all to be pretty good. Definitely go for the ebook option so you can always download updated versions if they update them.

All that being said, I've never really used Python before so I might try to do some of the homework using Python but I'll most likely be doing the majority using Ruby, if anybody wants to talk about the homework etc. Of course, after the answers are given, in agreement with the terms of the class.

cardine

There are two versions of the class "Basic", where you just answer questions to show you understood the lecture, and "Advanced" where you also have to do programming assignments. I think it's pretty programming-light compared to most other compsci classes... it's been designed to be accessible.


I'll be taking the ML course all the way through.

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jryan21

I'm in AI, but not at Stanford. It's like what was described above- you don't need to know programming, but the reason they say it helps is because if you've had programming courses, you are going to know data structures and have some exposure to logical thinking.

What is most helpful is if you understand graph theory, search trees, and the common algorithms associated with them. Like what is the most efficient way to search an extremely large structure, or what is the optimal path from node a to node b in a graph. AI will give some variations on the common algorithms that are fit to specific problems.

Also, we did some programming in LISP, though I don't know if Stanford's course does that.

dchuk

the stanford class goes over the Octave language, so they expect people to be using MatLab quite a bit with it.

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joevis

What a pile of shit. I watched a few preview videos and it's all garbage theory.

h(x)=y
ok who cares.

Obviously if I feed information through a processor that is gives me my answer, I will get my answer.

cardine

Usually classes go over notation before going into more detail...

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MikevanderHeijd

Thanks for sharing the links bro! Awesomeness.. Now as someone who has got basic coding skills, do any of you guys recommend a particular coding language before doing this course?

I have made it my goal to within the next 12 months get good at a coding language, so maybe I can hit 2 birds with one stone if the coding language I should learn also applies to this course?

MikevanderHeijd

really? nobody?

emp

It really does not matter.

I would recommend ruby or PHP, which might suck (a bit) for doing AI, but you can use them for web development as well.

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Or maybe Java (Android) or ObjectiveC (iOS) if you plan on doing mobile development instead of web.

Either way, the techniques you learn from one language will usually be useful in other languages. Loops, variables, conditionals, iteration... they're all pretty universal. Once you learn one, it's easier to learn others.

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cardine

The class will use Octave, but as Supergeek said, once you learn one language it is relatively easy to learn others as well.

Same here, I'll be looking to bring on someone soon for ML.

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nickCR

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nickCR

Got through the introduction. I'd say I'm at the advanced level when it comes to programming PHP/MySQL and the introduction was really easy to follow and understand. Follows all the logic that goes into building applications. As he was talking I actually could imagine ways that it could be used or have been used in the past. However this stuff is right up my ally as I really enjoy making applications/programs/processes that eliminate the need for a person to do the job.

For the most part anyone that has done any programming has handled supervised learning through queries in the database. I'm really interested to get into the Unsupervised learning stuff as that is pretty neat.

I also plan on taking the ML all the way through. It might not provide a 'stanford' seal of approval but at least you get something to show for it and not so much that as a ton of knowledge moving forward. Maybe even a different view on things.

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Kiopa_Matt

I'm definitely enjoying the ML class. Introduction chapter was boring as mud, but the next one definitely picked it up. Can most definitely help out in my work.

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Ok, thanks And I'll give them a watch in a few days, I've just started learning ruby, so far I've done tryruby & I'm halfway through Rails for zombies (Would recommend both of those to anyone reading this). I've also downloaded a pdf of a book that's meant to be good. Thanks for those, though, I'll give them a watch
Ah, ok, thanks very much, I'll sign up for that And yeah, haven't done much with databases, I've done a very simple mySQL lead collection, but that's about it.
Hmm, ok. and yeah, that's actually the ebook I downloaded I'll start on it this weekend, after I've finished Rails for Zombies. Yeah, I think I'll go with Ruby, I think I'll use it more than Python, to be honest
Ok, I think I'd like to go for the advanced, to get the most out of it. Thanks.



Thanks everyone for all the advice

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Heads up guys tomorrow your review quizzes and work is due (sunday) for week 1 on ML

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freezeprogram

I'm in database too. LMK if you want to be study buddies. I was surprised to see a chick teaching the class, but she seems to know her shit.

BeerNuts

Not to thread jack or anything but anyone who has iTunes has access to iTunes U (University) which has audio and video lectures from thousands of college courses. You don't get a pretty letter at the end saying you passed but you can learn damn well anything you want for free. I highly recommend you guys check it out.

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Wow, I an education on AI from Standford is definitely worth checking out. Thanks for the share

bizzykehl

didnt google already come out with an api for this?

nickCR

Even if they did have an API, having the knowledge to do this yourself is pretty powerful and an huge addition to your knowledge base.

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