Stanford to host more online classes

Re:Stanford to host more online classes by plinkplonk on Thursday November 17, 2011 @05:05AM (#3247120)

" I'm a CS PhD student at Stanford and I am a (voluntary) co-creator of the programming assignments for the current ML class. It is a lot of work, but the way I see it, we only have to put great assignments together a single time, and thousands of people can enjoy them and benefit from them for years and years to come. That is what I call time well spent."

As a consumer of Stanford's online classes(though not the ML class. I'm waiting for the CS 229 - vs the CS 229A - version), let me take the opportunity to thank you. Your efforts are totally appreciated. You are right, this is revolutionary. Glad to see that Stanford is keeping up (and building!) momentum rather than this being a one off effort.

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Re:Stanford to host more online classes by karpathy on Thursday November 17, 2011 @05:29AM (#3247168)

thanks, I should add (and I hope this is somewhat obvious) that there is a team of about 7 or 8 of us in total. A lot of work goes into site/technical/video processing etc, and then there are 2.5 of us making the assignments.

The real hero behind the assignments is Jiquan Ngiam (http://cs.stanford.edu/~jngiam/) who is in charge and does most of the work. He is awesome, brilliant, very hard working, and I thoroughly enjoy hacking with him on the ML class until late AM.

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Re:Stanford to host more online classes by malvim on Thursday November 17, 2011 @08:50AM (#3247621)

Me and my wife have been following Professor Ng's ML class and one of the highest points for us has been working through and trying to understand the programming exercices.

Our personal thanks to you and the other "1.5 people" working on that. ;)

Cheers!

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Re:Stanford to host more online classes by amirmc on Thursday November 17, 2011 @07:16AM (#3247379)

Thanks for that. I suspect Prof Ng will get a lot of praise for the class but I suspect some of it is intended for the people behind the scenes (not always easy to find out who they are).

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Re:Stanford to host more online classes by beagledude on Thursday November 17, 2011 @11:44AM (#3248212)

I'm super excited about this, thanks so much for taking the time, it's appreciated by those who missed the opportunity to get a CS degree.

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Re:Stanford to host more online classes by jberryman on Thursday November 17, 2011 @12:46PM (#3248464)

Thanks to all you guys! The programming assignments are brilliant. All my (non-technical) friends and family I've been telling about the class think the whole thing sounds really cool.

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Re:Stanford to host more online classes by knarf55 on Thursday November 17, 2011 @01:52PM (#3248728)

Really great stuff. Thank you and your team for your time and efforts on this. I learned a lot already from the ML class and can't wait to take the HCI class.

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Re:Stanford to host more online classes by jongraehl on Thursday November 17, 2011 @01:13PM (#3248567)

The ml-class programming exercises are excellent. Thanks.

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