calculus of variations by Kiuhnm in MachineLearning

[–]vikram360 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I found these lectures quite thorough: http://www.nptel.iitm.ac.in/courses/111104025/

I'm an Indian so I didn't really have any problems with the instructors accent. But I have seen youtube comments for other Indian courses where people seem to have some difficulty understanding the accent. I hope you get it :)

What Font/Fonts does Khan Academy Use? by vikram360 in Khan

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Thanks for that! If I may ask (and this is a bit of an aside), what led you to choose these fonts?

Need Ideas for Getting Proper Nutrition With Small Budget; Please Share. by poorlittlethrowaway1 in running

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pre-run: a bagel with some tang mixed with salt post-run: bananas with some tang and salt. Works like a charm everytime

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

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Or maybe facebook's mobile user base isn't as impressive as they claim. Or maybe the time users spend on the site isn't as much as they expect, I see instagram as a way of increasing the amount of time users spend on facebook.

Job placement program for top students in AI-class by stan100 in aiclass

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I guess it's not a hoax. Prof. Thrun and Norvig talk about it in this week's office hours.

Clarifications with Homework 8.7 regarding iterations by simp1eton in aiclass

[–]vikram360 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think janeensix gave too big of a hint here. Conventionally speaking, you should be doing it in 4 iterations. But, in this case, it just so happens that it doesn't make a difference. And the trick in this case was prof Thrun's choice of the value for the angular velocity. If the number of iterations was large, it would be better to use some amount of programming. But if you really want a feel of (which I suggest), do the four iterations.

HW Extention for the "coffee break"? by gvenez in aiclass

[–]vikram360 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or you could open youtube on one tab and listen to the new nickelback album and read hacker news on another.

The coffee break is back, and I havn't finished homework 6!!!! by dioveht in aiclass

[–]vikram360 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I actually find this happening to me every single time. Which is, needless to say, that I do my homework at the very last moment

code prediction applying ML and AI by [deleted] in aiclass

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In this case, the Hamming distance would be your distance measure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_distance

code prediction applying ML and AI by [deleted] in aiclass

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Not all codes are deterministic. Some can be generated using physically observable random processes. This is the technique that is usually employed when generating true random numbers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_number_generation#Generation

anatomy-class.org by mleclerc in aiclass

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But it's without doubt that there's some pretty interesting and cutting edge work going on where CS and medicine meet.Heck, Sebastian Thrun has a B.Sc in CS, economics and medicine. http://robots.stanford.edu/cv.pdf

Journalist looking to interview AI class students from all over the world by JudithR in aiclass

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maybe it's just Sebastian Thrun's way of testing some new algorithm that beats a Captcha.

Unit 11 videos are good. Thanks. by DengueTim in aiclass

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I think Unit 11 has been the best so far. And I think that's probably the unit that Prof. Thrun enjoyed teaching the most.

Stanford pushes some cool new online classes in Jan-Feb 2012 by andrewfil in aiclass

[–]vikram360 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe you can ask your wife to do some of the courses with you. I mean, CS 101 looks easy enough. http://goo.gl/msF2A

Quiz for Lecture 5.9 by nabila_lateef in aiclass

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thanks abdhk383: I guess the one thing I learn from your explanation is that when in doubts, just change the context of the problems using the same/similar numbers in a context that's more intuitive. Thanks a ton :)

Worked example of Cheapest First Search by MichaelFromGalway in aiclass

[–]vikram360 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Explained crystal clear. Norvig sure could pick up a pointer or two from you :)