NLP Class is live (opens in new tab)

Game Theory http://www.game-theory-class.org/ and Probabilistic Graphical Model http://www.pgm-class.org/ are going to start on March 19th.

Source: https://twitter.com/#!/coursera

Any news on Machine Learning? I'm starting to lose hope.

Thanks, I was about to lose track of who did what.

I believe the issues were administrative and legal rather than technical. My impression was that once the Stanford administrative bureaucracy got wind of what was happening with these courses, what started as a fun and entrepreneurial "let's change education" turned into much paper work and long meetings. I've found this is the typical academic response to anything truly innovative ;) (I also think this is partly why Thrun walked away from his tenure, to simply be able to work on changing the world without having to worry about all of the rest of it)

My understanding is it wasn't technical issues, but rather legal/political wrangling with Stanford that affected both Coursera and Udacity's courses.

I'm curious: considering you have read all of Manning's books and have been doing NLP for a long time, what do you expect to get out of the class?

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 don't think there's any need to worry. I was very much interested in Machine Learning and took Stanford course last year and prof. Andre Ng made it look so easy with focusing on practical aspect. Now I have a grasp on how things work practically it's easy to get going with the theoretical aspect (with mostly maths) and following CS229 full video set covering the original course.

Anyway good luck!

So far there's a few forums for these new online classes, like the AIqus site[0], Udacity forums for CS 101[1] and CS 373[2], and a lot of IRC channels, the main hubs being at #free-class, #udacity, and #mitx on irc.freenode.net[3].

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

[0] http://www.aiqus.com/

[1] http://www.udacity-forums.com/cs101/

[2] http://www.udacity-forums.com/cs373/

[3] http://webchat.freenode.net

Have to prioritize. Yes it's painful. I'd love to do all of them, but only have time for about one at a time, so pick the one with the highest value to you and focus on it.

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.

Me too, but I've signed up for most of them anyway. It's risk free and the only reward is personal: knowledge.

No loss, Neuro Linguistic programming is a fraud anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming#Cr...

> wondering if people taking the course planning to apply any of it in their daily work

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.

yes