Fortnightly Mailing

Fourth report from the Norvig/Thrun/Stanford/Know Labs Artificial Intelligence course

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Small edits made 30/10/2011,  some of which are indicated.

Here is my fourth participant's report from the Stanford Introduction to Artificial Intelligence course.

This is a shorter report than #1-3, mainly because the course has got into a rhythm and because there've been no substantial changes in delivery methods.

1. Despite the work that has been done to the web systems that sit behind the site, it looks as if there were again overload issues at and around the week 2 homework submission deadline, and this despite the probability the number submitting homework may have dropped quite a bit dropping by nearly 20% to ~37,000 from the ~46,000 reported after the week 1 homework deadline.

2. The course continues to fascinate. For example it is nice to gain a practical understanding of how things like spam filters actually work.

Third report from the Norvig/Thrun/Stanford/Know Labs Artificial Intelligence course

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Here is my third participant's report from the Stanford Introduction to Artificial Intelligence course.

For more than half my working life I have been engrossed by on-line distance learning (yes - since 1992). I've been unable to resist giving the course organisers a piece of my mind about aspects of the underlying course design, having been given active encouragement to do so. I've pasted at A below an excerpt from some feedback provided to Know It!'s David Stavens earlier this week.

The rest of this report concerns my experience of the course as a learner over the last week.

Second report from the Norvig/Thrun/Stanford/Know Labs Artificial Intelligence course

Screenshot from AI Course Unit 2, Topic 34, Note on Implementation

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Final paragraph updated 18/10/2011, and 23/11/2011

Here is my second participant's report from the Stanford Introduction to Artificial Intelligence course.

1. Over the last week I worked through the second section of the course - Problem Solving - consisting of nearly 40 short, low-tech videos. I described the pleasing, quirky, design of these in the first report.

2. Here you can review the Problem Solving materials, without being logged into the course. If you click on "cc" in the video-control bar you will see how the videos have been captioned and translated in multiple languages (by volunteers, using the dotSUB platform).

Report from the Norvig/Thrun/Stanford/Know Labs Artificial Intelligence course

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I've written previously about the free "Stanford" Introduction to Artificial Intelligence course, on which I am enrolled along with over 100,000 others from nearly 200 countries.

Yesterday evening I worked through the introduction to the course.

Here is a key point report.

1. There have been the usual start-up hiccups [snapshot at 08.00 UK time 10/10/2011) about which I am not complaining.

2. The content consists of 1-6 minute "Khan-style" videos of diagrams being written and talked about by Peter Norvig or Sebastian Thrun. And there has been some clever/wise truncation in the videos so that they run at the speed of the presenter's voice rather than taking the time it took to write the diagrams.