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Are you watching the same thing I'm watching? "So I have a friend who teaches math at a different university, not at Stanford, and when you talk to him about his work and what he's really out to do, this friend of mine will — he's a math professor, right? — this friend of mine will sort of get the look of wonder in his eyes, and he'll tell you about how in his mathematical work, he feels like he's discovering truth and beauty in the universe. And he says it in sort of a really touching, sincere way, and then he has this — you can see it in his eyes — he has this deep appreciation of the truth and beauty in the universe as revealed to him by the math he does. "In this class, I'm not gonna do any truth and beauty. In this class, I'm gonna talk about learning theory to try to convey to you an understanding of how and why learning algorithms work so that we can apply these learning algorithms as effectively as possible."