I signed up for the Stanford AI class and got notification that the class has started and the first videos are available. Well, this might be so but one would have thought that a proper AI system would be able to see that there are many requests from iPad users and re-encode the video so that flash isn't required.
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They're also using some specific interactive features of flash (for quick review questions). But if you download the files there's surely a way to reencode them to an iOs friendly file format? Or going straight to youtube (instead of going through the class site) you'll have some HTML5 thingy that will serve your Ipad.
What do you think of the class so far?
Hi Yann,
Well, I must say that I am diasappointed with the first class. The style was laboured and I found myself not in a comfortable place even though the principles of lists and searches were well known to me. The content was not particularly didactic in the classic sense and the homework questions were so dammned obtuse that I didn't get one of them even though I got ok scores in the questions that appeared in the video itself.
The question about the number of state possibilities for the vacuum cleaner world was very poorly worded and the factorization of the answer was not well exlained in the introduction so my answer was off.
Maybe I'm just being thick today?
I wonder how many dropouts there will be on week 2.
I agree with you, the way the homework questions were expressed was not the clearest. They later posted several clarifications. I got stuck on the vacuum cleaner question (the problem was very oddly stated).
The different tree traversal problems were also problematic, since a off-by-one error was always possible with the way the problem was presented. They did some clarifications on this too.
Hopefully the upcoming homework will require less fuzzy natural language parsing.
The Machine Learning class exercices are unambiguous and better thought out.
The sound quality is not stellar either (please, get a decent microphone).
Anyway, I'm still there on week 2 and I love it so far.
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