Artificial Intelligence - Free online course from Stanford U

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Stanford University is offerring a free online course for Artificial Intelligence over the next 3 months. It's like the course they teach for real at the uni. Something like 60,000 people have signed up so far (including me). No programming skills required (but they can't hurt). There's a basic (videos + quizzes) or advanced (same + homework + two exams) tracks to pick from.

Come join in!

http://www.ai-class.com/

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OropherX · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 2:56 am�� Post subject:

I withdrew from my A.I unit at uni coz it was too focussed on video games, excited to join this, thanks for the heads up.
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grim-one · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 11:57 am�� Post subject:

Too focused on video games? :O
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theory · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 3:36 pm�� Post subject:

Ahh, read about this. How cool. Will wait and download the course summary after it's done.

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Island_Wolf · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 4:36 pm�� Post subject:

They also have a "Introduction to Databases" here and "Machine Learning" here
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nnytard · Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 11:37 am�� Post subject:

I signed up to the databases one a while ago. Just doing it so I can have the name of an American uni on my resume.
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Macka · Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 10:06 am�� Post subject:

I signed up for all three, should be good

I just hope I manage to find time to complete everything in between work and other stuff.
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StorminNorman · Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 9:59 pm�� Post subject:

Stanford has a well-regarded reputation in the AI research field, thanks to SAIL. In its heydey, SAIL was up there with MIT and Berkeley in terms of educating the people that would then go on to shape the modern technology industry, as well as providing a lot of the influence on what's known as hacker culture.

So that gives you an idea of the academic pedigree behind this course.
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OropherX · Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 5:31 pm�� Post subject:

I guess we can use this thread to help each other =O (I suck at maths T_T)
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genxevo · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 10:19 pm�� Post subject:

i want to give this a shot.. anyone have any idea how many hours you'd need to put in to do well in this sorta course with no background at all in it (not just a pass mark)

FeralOni · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 9:09 am�� Post subject:

if you did methods or specialist back in VCE and got a decent study score, you'd probably be able to get away with spending about 10 hours/week on it (assuming you aren't rusty on probability and algebra).

i only did further maths in VCE, but i'm picking up the pre-requisites relatively easily from the physics based units i did at BHI
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grim-one · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:04 am�� Post subject:

@genxevo: The basic one shouldn't take more than a couple of hours a week (to watch the videos). Advanced will be 10+ hrs/week. There's related material to help on background stuff available right now (might need to be signed in to see it)

@Feral: VCE? BHI?
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FeralOni · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 11:12 am�� Post subject:

grim-one, VCE is year 12 (genexevo and i went to the same high-school) and BHI is Box Hill Institute, a well know TAFE in victoria
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genxevo · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 12:01 pm�� Post subject:

pfffft.. non-victorianers....

math i'm probably cool with... its computer related lingo/programs i may need to use... i don't even know how to use excell properly (I just know i can type info in the boxes and make the info boxes longer)

jprockbelly · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 12:06 pm�� Post subject:

grim-one · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 12:28 pm�� Post subject:

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Island_Wolf · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:09 am�� Post subject:

Oh yeah, VLOOKUP. I'm currently working on a project that involves fixing an Excel spreadsheet that is being used like a form. VLOOKUP, referencing hidden cells, IF in IF in IF in IF in IF (repeat many times over), trying to find named range which is from another sheets, hidden sheets, LEFT, it's madness!

Back to trying to get this spreadsheet fixed at work.
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jprockbelly · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:30 am�� Post subject:

lulz! I feel for you iWolf. There is nothing worse than trying to use someone elses Excel workbook. And named ranges are the devil! Just reference the flipping cells, at least then I can see what is being used.

Although RIGHT and LEFT are pretty handy sometimes

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jprockbelly · Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 10:26 am�� Post subject:

Enrollment for this opened today, who is still keen

I've joined the basic Machine Learning (for fun) and Intro to Databases (for work) courses. Hopefully a few of you are also in these classes and we can form a nerd group to help each other out.
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grim-one · Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:20 pm�� Post subject:

Enrollment for the AI class has been open since I posted this thread? Unless you mean 'this' as in the DB and Machine Learning courses you mentioned.

Not sure I want to do three uni subjects at once while working full time (and gaming part time). I'll stick to just the AI one for now =)
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Spacecow · Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 7:45 pm�� Post subject:

I'm mildly interested in the Database one. It's kinda come at a bad time with my VCE exams though.

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OropherX · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 2:47 am�� Post subject:

grim why do I get the feeling that you're a Curtin graduate?
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grim-one · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:33 am�� Post subject:

^ Not sure. Why do you get that feeling? =)
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OropherX · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 5:08 pm�� Post subject:

I'm doing the database one as revision, I looked at the course content and it seems pretty identical to the database unit I did at uni so that should be okay =)

A.I one looks interesting but I'm worried about the machine learning one. I looked at some of the maths presentations and thought **** since I graduated from a uni where the head of the computer science said to the lecture room "the problem with this uni is that we don't focus on maths, but you guys don't really want to learn maths right?" -_-
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