Stanford Online Engineering Courses: Machine Learning

I have really kept things musing within me about the recent free online course offered by Stanford University's School of Engineering online through the Standford Engineering Everywhere programme. Courses currently on-going include

1. Machine Learning with Professor Andrew Ng
2. Introduction to databases with Professor Jennifer Widom
3. Introduction to Artificial intelligence with Prof. Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig

I was initially tempted to take all the course (with less participation in the DB course) but going live on the course, I knew that sometimes you need both hands to squeeze all the juices out of the orange. So, I stayed on Machine Learning and it has been very fantastic.

Not only has the course opened up areas in computing that were faint and becoming increasing obscured, it has completely laid open my cognition and sense of recognition. I was already getting my hands dirty with programming in R but Professor Ng pointed strongly encourage octave and I just got better with the two.

It is worth noting the wonderful lecturing skills of Professor Ng and whether or not he reads this, I would like to say THANK YOU to him and to Standford School of Engineering.

We may not have the privilege of having a Standford degree but now we can have the Standford knowledge.