Something I missed: [ ai-class.com ]

A partnership between Stanford Education and knowlabs, the class offered over at [ http://ai-class.com ] is pretty neat. I wish I had signed up for it sooner, even if my current workload isn't always getting done. I'll have to settle for watching videos on occasion, I guess.

A news article (FD: written by Stanford) detailing what's going on can be found [ here ].

Neat stuff, AI.

Overall, I find the idea of a class where the material is taught in compact format outside of the classroom (in a potentially passive medium, perhaps) to be a pretty neat one- classes could be shorter, wouldn't require an hour-or-longer attention span to take in all the material, and the educator could utilize their time more efficiently- rather than spending time lecturing more than once, they can record the lecture, and spend valuable class time helping the students with more advanced or difficult-to-understand concepts.

Food for thought, I guess.

Of Interest: Switch on the code

In my constant quest to self-improve, I've been trying to learn a few languages- Russian, Italian, and Python, among others. While a school-provided copy of Rosetta Stone covers the first two, the third isn't something that you can learn through something like cultural immersion.

Instead, of interest is [ this ].

Covering a multitude of languages, Switch on the code maintains a large list of tutorials that are of great assistance in learning the ins and outs of mainstream programming languages.