Re: Anyone else looking at the Stanford courses for January?

[Alex Ullrich <alex.ullrich@gmail.com>]

I would really like to take that PGM course.  Haven't taken any of
these, do they go for a full semester or is it a shortened format?
Just wondering what weekly time commitment would be like.

On Nov 20, 7:04 pm, Joseph Dickinson <jpd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I signed up for Cryptography. Are these just online classes to take for free? Sorry, I'm new to this PGM :)
>
> Thanks
>
> Joe
>
> Joseph Dickinsonhttp://www.josephdickinson.com
>
> On Nov 20, 2011, at 5:33 PM, Nicholas Canzoneri wrote:
>
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> > Bunch of new courses that seem pretty interesting.
>
> > The two that I'm deciding between now are "Probabilistic Graphical
> > Models" and "Design and Analysis of Algorithms"
>
> > PGM, for me, looks to be more interesting to me than AI or ML was.
> > Hoping to satisfy that intellectual itch.
>
> > The algo class I'm looking at because I've always felt that it was a
> > weak point for me. I've tried to start CLRS a few times on my own, but
> > failed before accomplishing much of anything, so I'm hoping a more
> > structured environment will help.
>
> > Anyone else looking at the classes? Full list of courses offered so
> > far (they just added Crypto a day or two ago so might add more) at the
> > bottom of this page:
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> >http://www.pgm-class.org/
>
> > Cheers
>
> > Nick
>
> > --
> > Nick Canzoneri
> > ac3...@gmail.com
> > @ac3522