Stanford offering free courses.

Something for all you nerds out there.

Stanford University is offering some free online courses in computer science.



Introduction to Artificial Inteligence

Introduction to Databases

Introduction to Machine Learning

Good learning opportunity I think, if you can put the time into it.|||That AI course and machine learning certainly look like something I'd like to have a look at. Thanks Glurin, I might sign up for those |||That is totally awesome Glurin! Thanks for posting this! My brother and I were actually just theory-talking last night about approaches to programming self-learning robots!! I did some digging and it looks like there are actually seven other classes available too. This page has a complete list:

http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx

Home Page: http://see.stanford.edu/

*strokes beard... vigorously*|||Wohoo so awesome! Nothing like keeping myself busy with these things I'm such a NERD T_T

EDIT: While we're on topic of free education, here is a link to the Open Courseware from MIT. LOTS of free lectures and all that fun stuff. You can nerd out all you like. If you need math help, you can always visit the Khan Academy for a mass of painless lectures in math as well as topics in Chemistry, Physics, or Biology. Plow through the knowledge pool! |||if I was smart enough, I'd take these courses then apply them to build my own robot maid or a good guy version of Skynet(j/k)|||If you can invert a 6x6 matrix by hand in less than one hour, you can do it !|||Quote:








If you can invert a 6x6 matrix by hand in less than one hour, you can do it !




You are really enthusiastic about these. I'll let you go first, then I'll just co...er, I mean....yeah, copy you :P

just kidding, I can't|||Inverting matrices is not only a fairly complicated process but is also very computationally requiring. When I was in Pre-Calc, we had a crash course of matrices (basically one chapter about the most vital parts, of which inverting wasn't one of). We left all the inverting to the calculator, but being the sadistic enthusiast that I am, I decided to venture a little deeper and find out how to invert those manually (after all, the calculator has to be able to do it somehow right?). Of course, after a while of traversing the math book and figuring how to invert matrices higher than a 3x3, I found out that the process is anything but trivial. For practice, I decided to invert a 5x5 matrix. After 3 hours (doing this in school) I had the inverse matrix. I guess it's not so bad for a "first time." The process is very repetitive and one heck of a patience trial.|||Cool find Techno! Downloading their course materials now.


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I'd take these courses then apply them to build my own robot maid




I think that pretty much sums up 90% of the male population of robotics students. Maybe 99% in Japan, though they are more imaginative. Robot maids and nurses, holographic divas... |||Glurin, if you build either a robot maid or Skynet, gimme a discount, would ya pal? thanks!