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New Stanford class on Cryptography
- tristanstraub 15y agodoing these courses next to full time work is tough, but its just so tempting.
- Omnipresent 15y agoTotally agree. I signed up for the DB course but could not keep up due to responsibilities of my full time job. However, I've kept the assignments and plan to do them later.
- GlennS 15y agoAs a rough time estimate for you, the AI Class is taking me about 2 evenings of maybe 2-3 hours each per week. Your mileage may vary.
- thebrokencube 15y agoA few coworkers and I signed up for the DB class and ran into the same problem. What we decided to do instead is just read through the material whenever we get a chance and not worry too much about the assignments (unless we get time). We don't necessarily get all the benefits, but at least we're able to take something good out of it.
- chrisguitarguy 15y agoThat's what I've been doing as well. No "certificate of accomplishment" at the end of the class, but still the benefits of learning the material. Seems like a fair trade.
- candeira 15y agoIn my opinion, the real learning comes from doing the exercises. So if you are reading the material but not doing any quiz or exercise, you aren't learning as much. And if you aren't doing the exam, which has a time limit and you can't repeat until you get it perfect, you don't know how much you are or aren't learning.
- huherto 15y agoI work full time and I am taking AI and ML. Fortunately, I am allowed to spend some time doing this at work, but it is still taking my weekends. I think one class is ok, two is a bit too much but doable. I wouldn't do three.
- lhnn 15y agoI signed up for AI and DB classes next to a 45 hour/week job, and dropped the AI course. I'm having trouble keeping up while maintaining a life, but it is possible, though! Seriously, consider only one class if you have any trouble self-regulating.
- JabavuAdams 15y agoJust do it. TV can wait. I'm currently working at two jobs, and just barely able to do the ML and AI classes. Starting in January, I'm down to one job, so naturally I signed up for Cryptography, Game Theory, and Natural Language Processing. Just do it!
- theshadow 15y agoAny chance that they might do a compilers class too? The compilers class at my school got cancelled for the fall term and I don't think I'll have a chance to take it in a future term.
- Periodic 15y agoThe introductory compilers class, CS143, will be available to Stanford students in the spring. I have no idea if they'll put it online, but it would be consistent with their current initiatives. I think you'll have to inquire more or wait until then to find out. http://cs.stanford.edu/courses http://cs.stanford.edu/courses
- losethos 15y agohttp://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24404&start=30 http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24404&sta... Grub makes chainloading difficult, now. It's dirt simple and they are obfuscating. Grub now has an extra level of indirection -- you must make a script to make the config. LoseThos boots like Windows -- chainloads. A bootloader should not get involved in details of filesystems -- just load the partition boot sector and run it. They can do whatever complicated extensions they like to support just Linux, but they should keep it dirt simple to chainload. ------------ > InstallMasterBoot('D'); MBR stage 1: http://www.losethos.com/code/BootMHD.html http://www.losethos.com/code/BootMHD.html MBR stage 2: http://www.losethos.com/code/BootMHD2.html http://www.losethos.com/code/BootMHD2.html Make and install boot records: http://www.losethos.com/code/InsBoot.html http://www.losethos.com/code/InsBoot.html Hard Drive Partition Boot Loader: http://www.losethos.com/code/BootHD.html http://www.losethos.com/code/BootHD.html CD ROM Bootloader: http://www.losethos.com/code/BootCD.html http://www.losethos.com/code/BootCD.html OS stage 1: Start-up cope to call some BIOS and switch from 16-bit real mode to 32-bit, then 64-bit modes. http://www.losethos.com/code/OSStartUp.html http://www.losethos.com/code/OSStartUp.html
- Omnipresent 15y agoThis question might be tangent from the intended purpose of these awesome free classes but can anyone share if some certification or acknowledgement of some sort is received upon completion?
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- spacemanaki 15y agoI think the recent AI, DB, and ML classes all planned to offer an acknowledgement of completion. This one, linked from the OP, mentioned something similar: http://www.pgm-class.org/ http://www.pgm-class.org/
- davyjones 15y agoYes. From ml-class.org, "Students will have access to lecture videos, lecture notes, receive regular feedback on progress, and receive answers to questions. When you successfully complete the class, you will also receive a statement of accomplishment."
- inconditus 15y agoML-class does not necessarily apply to all other 10 courses offered by Stanford. I would not be surprised if they weren't given for the entrepreneurial classes offered.
- huherto 15y agoI think the plan is to have a complete Master's degree, but there haven't been any announcements regarding this.
- _corbett 15y agoawesome, I'm reading Applied Cryptography and this will be a good supplement. The MIT OCW course doesn't have a lot of resources http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-875-cryptography-and-cryptanalysis-spring-2005/index.htm http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput... Does anyone know from the AI course the quality of the lectures & videos?
- antoinehersen 15y agoThe AI class is ok, but the lack of programming assignment really impede learning. On the other hand the ML class is great, even the web site is better.
- tptacek 15y agoApplied Cryptography, no matter what Matthew Green may have to say about it, is a terrible book to learn cryptography from. I highly recommend you burn it and instead pick up a copy of Practical Cryptography (or Cryptography Engineering, which is the exact same book). The mark of a good book on a security topic is, you can read it "upside down" and learn how to break things instead of build them.
- DanBC 15y agoFrustratingly, there's more than one applied cryptography. There's (obviously) Schneier's book, and then there's this: (http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/ http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/)
- tptacek 15y agoMenezes is "Handbook Of Applied Cryptography", but this was actually a sore point with Schneier back in '98 (I feel like I listened to him complain about it in a bar at Usenix Security). In any case, get Practical Cryptography.
- waterlesscloud 15y agoWhy is Applied Cryptography a terrible book?
- patricklynch 15y agoAre the course videos online somewhere? I know the database class was basically an organized walkthrough with extra assignments for videos that were mostly already public.
- pbreit 15y agoWhy do these classes all have unique URLs?
- haakon 15y agoBecause they are different resources. If they were all at the same URL, it would be difficult to tell them apart. That said, the URLs could share a common domain. :-)
- kmfrk 15y agoThey want to make it clear that there is no relation to Stanford with regards to accreditation. People unaware of these courses might conflate them with actual Stanford courses.
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- innocentques 15y agoWow, does anyone know what is the system here? Has stanford just said to their faculty that this is something they can do in their spare time but stanford will not actively support it? Or is there some other arrangement going on? Also why are they not shifting away from CS classes (except for entrepreneurship). Things like signal processing and basic controllers can be taught with such a class. I would specially love the signal processing class since there are 3 classes (don't exactly remember the name) which are considered holy perfecta of signal processing.
- tptacek 15y agoDan Boneh is bad ass. That's all I have to say about this.
- quanticle 15y agoHis papers on group cryptography are considered to be the seminal works in the field.
- feralchimp 15y agoDo you happen to have links to his work that don't require ACM, JStor, or other membership? And...Google was my friend: http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs.html http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs.html
- colgur 15y agoNot sure if it is retroactive but the ACM has changed their access policy a little: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/10/131401-acms-copyright-policy/fulltext http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/10/131401-acms-copyright-....
- btn 15y agoThe service [1] described in that article allows authors to let people download an article from the ACM via. a link on their personal website, rather than having to host the PDF themselves. There's been no change in the access policy for non-members. [1] http://www.acm.org/publications/acm-author-izer-service http://www.acm.org/publications/acm-author-izer-service
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- molecularbutter 15y agoThere are 10 total, scroll to the bottom of that page.
- feralchimp 15y agoForgive the stupid question, but: Is this free? And if so, are the assignments graded?
- cop359 15y agoI prefer the MIT model of just having video lectures online. You can do things at your own pace. Whats the advantage of this sign-up and do assignment that get graded by a computer model?
- lhnn 15y agoI wish they offered the quizzes, tests, etc. at will of the student, only unlocking further videos as the students completed tasks in order. This provides the structure of a true lecture, with additional materials, while not making me wait for months to start learning.
- loganfrederick 15y agoThey likely have to structure this way just so they buy themselves time to create the content during the quarter/semester.
- geekytenny 15y agoIMHO, there is an illusion that i understand stuff just by watching a video. i don't know how much of a noob i still am until exercises and midterms. The stanford model should be emulated...seriously.
- riffraff 15y agoother already pointed out that having assignments helps, I'd add that for some people (e.g. me) a _schedule_ is a great advantage. If you are trying to learn something on your own timing it's easy to procrastinate. Maybe you could keep a faster pace but you just won't push yourself a bit. It goes without saying that people with good self discipline can do without a schedule, but for some of us it helps.
- callahad 15y agoI've had the opposite problem: Without a schedule, I'll binge on the material for the first few days, and then utterly burn out or fail to properly learn the information.
- geekytenny 15y agoWay to go Stanford. You guys just keep blowing our minds. After all the stuff i learned for free in just 4 weeks of the current classes, i am filled with gratitude! I highly recommend these classes..
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- dataphyte 15y agoall the classes have their own domains? GoDaddy is happy.
- rmnoon 15y agoThis class blew my mind. Don't take it if you're even a little bit paranoid already. =)
- doublextremevil 15y agoOk, then i guess i have to take it now. Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean no one's out to get you.
- frio 15y agoHeh, I had the same reaction after reading Neil Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. Working for an ISP and seeing how easy it is to sniff traffic only makes the paranoia worse, unfortunately.
- Ecio78 15y agoThat's really interesting and it seems, according to ml-class videos already online, that there are also subtitles available (it surely helps people like me that are not native english speaker)