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Re:Why is Machine Learning the Most Popular Course at Stanford? by grondilu on Monday December 30, 2013 @02:42AM (#6983576)
Wasn't it one of the first course of this kind? (I'm talking about the first edition, since it was renewed recently) If so, that would explain a lot, as people were attracted to novelty.
Re:Why is Machine Learning the Most Popular Course at Stanford? by henrik_w on Monday December 30, 2013 @05:55AM (#6984060)
Yes, it was one of the original three. The others were AI and Databases. I took the databases course, and wrote about the experience here: http://henrikwarne.com/2011/12/18/introduction-to-databases-...