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by webspiderus 15y ago
the Machine Learning class (at least for the Stanford students) also has a project component, so I'm sure a startup could see some use even from just having the graduates work on their problems for a research project, if nothing else! perso
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by webspiderus 15y ago
I'm actually taking the Applied Machine Learning class at Stanford, and I'll be honest - I'm a little disappointed that most of the content is delivered through video instead of lectures. I find it difficult to actually watch through the vi
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by webspiderus 15y ago
it was actually on the front page before it got edited to simply "lights" - the previous title was similar to the earlier submission.
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by webspiderus 15y ago
I can relay some of the things Prof. Ng said in the first meeting of the CS229A class: 229A is definitely meant to be much less mathematically rigorous - he said that he expects some people who don't feel like they're necessarily up to 229
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by webspiderus 15y ago
for what it's worth, if you take the ML class, you will learn most of the things you would learn in the AI class and more - although it does get a bit rigorous, and will take more time than the AI class would. from personal experience, I fe
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by webspiderus 15y ago
For what it's worth, most of the programming in the ML class when I took it last year was MATLAB based - since it mostly involved lots of linear algebra, and using MATLAB meant you got matrix operations for free. AI class, on the other hand
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by webspiderus 15y ago
I took the ML class in Autumn quarter and the AI class in Winter quarter of last year, there is definitely a lot of overlap - although to that extent, it might make it easier since you won't have two disjoint topic sets to study. ML definit
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by webspiderus 15y ago
I'm very into association football (both watching and playing), although I attribute that more to growing up in Europe as a boy more than anything else. I also spent 4 years studying jujitsu (ended up taking a break because of school, but a
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by webspiderus 15y ago
This is a course that went with this book: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs246/cs246-11-mmds/ Some interesting material in the presentations and the homeworks as well, although the bulk of the content is definitely in the textbook.
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by webspiderus 15y ago
I think there's no doubt that you'll have much more resources at your disposal (like proper office hours) if you are actually enrolled at Stanford. if nothing else, part of your 50 grand is also paying for the fact that our career fairs are
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by webspiderus 15y ago
You can find some of the materials for last year's ML class at http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs229/ . CS 221 had a similar one, although it got taken down recently. I imagine you'd at the very least be able to access the materials while th
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by webspiderus 15y ago
having taken an AI class (using AIMA) at my undergrad college, I can't say that Norvig co-teaching the class made it all that different - probably the most interesting difference was being able to hear him (and Thrun) talk about real-world
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by webspiderus 15y ago
for what it's worth, if you take the ML class, you will learn most of the things you would learn in the AI class and more - although it does get a bit rigorous, and will take more time than the AI class would. from personal experience, I fe
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by webspiderus 15y ago
or maybe give a math minor a chance! I ended up majoring in both Computer Science and Theoretical Mathematics in my undergraduate institution - and while I feel that Real Analysis did not directly help my programming skills, it's definitely
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by webspiderus 15y ago
and I hope you keep teaching as well! it was a real pleasure taking CS 221 from you, I hope everyone can be so lucky in the future :)
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by webspiderus 15y ago
ah, thanks - I had a feeling it was something like that! I figured a Calculus book would probably get it right :)
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by webspiderus 15y ago
This is completely off-topic, but did you mean to call it l'hospital as opposed to L'Hôpital? I remember even my calculus book had similar errors, and I always wondered if it was just because the two looked so similar (or if there was any m
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by webspiderus 15y ago
In a way - I read Programming Interviews Exposed, and it definitely helped to brush up on implementation details, but Skiena offers more of a cookbook approach to tackling algorithmically hard problems. The second half is full of generalize
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by webspiderus 15y ago
I read Skiena's book as preparation for interviews after having gone through a course using CLRS the year before, and I definitely feel like that is the best way to do it. I feel like reading Skiena got me back to mostly the same place I wa
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by webspiderus 15y ago
not at all - I took both the ML and AI course equivalents, and I think it's awesome more people can benefit from the great instruction I've been lucky enough to receive. I do agree that I also became more familiar with the material during o
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by webspiderus 15y ago
i've been using my cs 229 notes for class and work, easily the best overview of a lot of concepts that i've been able to find!
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by webspiderus 15y ago
not sure if you saw it in the other thread, but you can check out http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs229/materials.html for some old course materials. this is easily one of the best classes i've been able to take - as i said in the other thr
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by webspiderus 15y ago
I would say that the AI class is a good overview for the field of AI - but Machine Learning is a good in-depth discussion of the machine learning approaches, which will generally also expose you to a lot of other related AI concepts.
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by webspiderus 15y ago
for what it's worth, if you take the ML class, you will learn most of the things you would learn in the AI class and more - although it does get a bit rigorous, and will take more time than the AI class would.
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by webspiderus 15y ago
http://www.ai-class.com/ - the equivalent of Stanford's CS 221.
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by webspiderus 15y ago
I ended up taking the Norvig AI class after this one and felt that a large majority of the material was also covered in the ML class, but usually more rigorously in the latter and as a means to more interesting stuff. If you feel like cover
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by webspiderus 15y ago
I took this class as CS 229 at Stanford, and will attest that it's pretty damn awesome (easily one of the best classes I've been able to take). The course really provides a thorough exploration of a lot of the main techniques in machine lea
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by webspiderus 15y ago
as a potentially different use case, I use my tabs as a stack for reading things (where I push a link when I see it), and will then read through them all in a serial fashion, closing things I'm 'done' with. this generally leads to me having
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by webspiderus 15y ago
Not very much - most of the lectures stood on their own as far as explaining the concepts, although the book was sometimes useful to consult with regard to the details of an algorithm, for example. Much of that information can be found else
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by webspiderus 15y ago
I took a version of this class (also taught by Norvig and Thrun) last year, and I definitely found it very enjoyable. I ended up taking it after CS 229 (which covers the mathematical underpinnings of machine learning with some rigor), so I

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