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11:22
Omg, Coursera just got 16 million in funding and updated their site... coursera.org/category/cs
They now have a massive amount of courses...
Only too bad they aren't hosting them more like Udacity, just repeat it regularly
 
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13:04
@IvoFlipse Whoah! = )))
Slight disappointment when you see the launching dates
I guess some people need the deadlines, but if the course material was all available from day one, I'd just do the entire course in one go
@IvoFlipse I don't mind the deadlines
@IvoFlipse But this is amazing!
Well the problem with the deadlines is that they're the reason most courses have such a strict time schedule, else they could let you start whenever you want to
Though with Udacity they basically reboot every 8 weeks, I think that's working out pretty well
But yeah, those are some nice courses coming up
@IvoFlipse Yeah
@I Algorithms I and II, even behavioral neurology!
This is awesome!
Science Fiction :P
13:10
OMG OMG OMG
I was copying the link as you said it = )
13:31
@IvoFlipse Well, that ahould keep me busy for some time = )
@Phonon Hehe, I have no idea what those lectures would be like
Go read the Hobbit and come back when you're done
@IvoFlipse I did the PGM non-programming homework last night, Wasn't too bad. I loved the and for lectures on Turbo Codes. I was looking into that stuff for work, not ever 6 months ago.
@IvoFlipse Lol. I hope not.
argh this one exercise from Udacity's programming language class is driving me nuts :(
@Phonon I had the same thing about bayesian networks
 
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15:36
@Phonon @IvoFlipse Morning all!
Hello :)
@Phonon @IvoFlipse Omg omg omg omg - did you guys see all the BOAT LOAD of new courses from coursera??
Done with Udacity for the week, but still have to complete PGM for next weeks deadline :\
@Mohammad Yeah, I signed up for like everything already lol
@Phonon Hehe, well I'm not doing the Coursera compiler and automata ones
15:40
@Phonon lool. Srsly I am browsing through all of them now - they even have a 'sci fi' on lol
one*
even though that last one covers some discrete math I believe
@Phonon You know, a lot are from other unis, so I am thinking if it would be possible to go through your own uni and tag along in that sense
I'll just download the video's from some repo
@Phonon @IvoFlipse Ah! I see the two of you discovered this before I did! heh
I can imagine the sci-fi final exam. "Is StarTrek > Starwars? Explain"
@Mohammad It does not :P
15:48
does not what?
@Mohammad It'll be more like: A powerful space-wizard lives in a space tower on a space station. He has an alien-technology heat-seeking blaster gun and a mighty sword. Question: Why the f___ does he need the sword if he has the blaster gun?
@Phonon Hahaha. Yes.
@Phonon Because his opponent has one too
@IvoFlipse Right = )
ironically in a lot of fantasy books, when wizards fight there they end up using swords, its often a stalemate when it comes to magic
15:51
@Phonon @IvoFlipse They should just merge all fields into the context of sci-fi. "If a photon torpedo is approaching you at 60% the speed of light and the gain on your kalman tracking filter is 12dB, what are your changes of survival? Show a probabilistic graph explaining your reasoning".
@Mohammad Yeah, totally
@Phonon @IvoFlipse I just got an email from my old uni's CS dept about an NLP course and some others... tsk tsk... they have no idea how destroyed they are going to be very very soon lol
@Mohammad Haha. Where did you go to school?
@Phonon Johns Hopkins/GWU for grad school
@Mohammad Nice.
16:00
@Phonon u?
@Mohammad Polytechnic of NYU
Both undergrad and grad
@Phonon Oh nice. Is it in NY proper or more upstate?
Nice, both of you
NYC*
Right in Manhattan. Although the engineering campus is mainly right across the bridge in Brooklyn
16:02
@Phonon Oh man! Im jelly. :-/
@Mohammad Yeah, that was nice = )
@Phonon I have a friend who I visited in Brooklyn, all I remember is 'classen avenue' hehe
@Mohammad No idea where that is. Hold on, Google to the rescue!
@Mohammad Oh, that's very close to Poly campus
Walking distance actually
@Phonon Ah! Yeah, it was next to some police station I think
@Phonon I actually got lost in that area once, very long (and funny) story ...involving a severe allergic reaction to a cat and a ...questionable motel... 0_0
@Mohammad lol

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