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I am the 110701th student signed up. This is no lightweight class,
this is the real one. The clips describing the class said to expect
to dedicate around 10 hours per weekly session to study.<br>
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Sebastian Thrun, one of the organizers and instructors of this
class, was the principle investigator who, with his student team,
came in first place in the DARPA Grand Challenge (desert), and
second place in the Urban Challenge.<br>
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See you in class, Spike!<br>
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FutureMan<br>
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On 8/19/2011 8:14 PM, spike wrote <br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 19, 2011 7:52 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> ExI chat list; L. Stephen Coles, M.D., Ph.D.<br>
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<span style="color:#1F497D">>…</span>I suspect I already
know all there is to know on this subject, but I'll log in
just to see if anything has changed since my last major
breakthrough :-). It will be interesting to observe if this
class takes us outside the world of sensor fusion and fuzzy
algorithms. Maybe a new feature will be introduced, something
like human-like_abstraction.h.<br>
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<span style="color:#1F497D">>…</span>Thanks for the
referral, Spike!<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Actually the AI
is only part of what I find interesting. If universities
start doing this, it shatters the entire traditional
paradigm of learning that is thousands of years old. This
goes beyond the Learning Company products, which are quite
good, but those are just traditional lectures someone
recorded and offered for sale. This is good, but the
Stanford AI class goes beyond it. They offer evaluation of
quizzes and tests, some limited interaction of sorts, a
means to track your progress. The instructors are world
class. So now it makes it clear that if you pay the
substantial fee to enroll at Stanford, all you are actually
buying are the credentials. The actual knowledge is being
given away free, but you pay dearly if you want an actual
piece of paper that says you know the material.
Fascinating.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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