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Thank you for your interest in Machine Learning. A launch date for this course
is currently on hold. I am excited to offer our material online for free. We
apologize for the delay and will be sure to let you know when we confirm a date
for this course to go live. In the meanwhile, you might check out the five free
online Stanford courses that will go-live on March 12 and March 19 at www.coursera.org.
Thank you for your interest.
Andrew Ng
Machine LearningI have been doing NLP for a long time, and I expect to get a lot out of this class.
I liked the style of the introductory lecture, well done, and the way they have the auto-graded programming assignments set up looks slick.
I took one NLP class at grad school but I don't remember much of it (besides it was in Japanese, which is my 3rd language). I'm trying to decide whether to sign up for the course or just get one of the books and study it at my own pace. I'm tending to the latter since 10 hours a week is quite a lot to fit in my schedule.
I find the lectures interesting. I went to school at UCSB and mostly my teachers were very good, but I expect the "best of the best" from Stanford.
I enjoyed writing the first homework assignment late last night. I thought that it was an easy problem, but the more I worked on it the better results I got.
I am also taking the Probabilistic Graphical Models class because I don't have much experience in that area - that is fresh and new material for me.
I have never studied NLP but I did an algo class at a brick university some years ago.
This being stanford however I am a little worried that my theory/math skills may not be up to the standard but I am hoping to wing it and brush up on what I need as I need it.
Wish me luck!
Anyway good luck!
Edit: This is just an observation. People who signed up at the end of last year might be out of the loop.
Anybody wants to create hn one for algorithms/nlp? Might come up quite useful.
There's individual channels for each course as well, for Coursera courses they follow the pattern of the class url preceded by an octothorpe, so for the Design and Analysis of Algorithms I class at http://algo-class.org for example, the IRC channel for it is #algo-class. For the Udacity courses, they follow the pattern of ##udacity-<course number>, so for example ##udacity-cs101 and ##udacity-cs373
[1] http://www.udacity-forums.com/cs101/
Take comfort in the knowledge that now that they are going online, they'll still be there when you're ready for the next one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming#Cr...
The company I work for is planning to create or buy in some kind of customer facing knowledge base app with support for NLP queries, which is a large part of the reason I registered.