Question

For all you geniuses out there: cryptography problem. Extract information out of this big block of text: http://pastebin.com/Ztgd0FAB

Answer 1

How'd you do in AI assignment 6? Some tricky things.

Answer 2

I lost half marks on that scheduling problem :-( so I only get a 70%

Answer 3

Half marks? I thought you are not enrolled in school

Answer 4

I wrote a 6 instead of a 7 :-P

Answer 5

There was far too much weight on that one question; they should have discounted those answers by 1/2 or more.

Answer 6

Are you guys talking about the artificial intelligence course from Stanford?

Answer 7

yeah

Answer 8

How do you evaluate the course? cuz I'm thinking to enroll in one of their courses next semester.

Answer 9

This was an assignment for the free Stanford course? Wow.

Answer 10

I'm not enrolling

Answer 11

They are very approachable: the ml-class basically spoonfeeds you :-D Best of all, you learn a lot of material from them.

Answer 12

Hero...

Answer 13

They will be offering a game theory course, right?

Answer 14

I'm sure they will, this spring.

The courses do a good job of dragging you through the material.

Answer 15

E-mail from game-theory-class:

Thank you for signing up for the Game Theory online class ( http://www.game-theory-class.org). The class will start in late February 2012, and we will contact you again via email before the class starts.

Feel free to forward this email to your friends who might be interested in Game Theory or any of the other classes offered.

We look forward to having you in class in February 2012!

Matthew Jackson and Yoav Shoham
Game Theory

Answer 16

I'm thinking game theory or ML. I can only take one.

Answer 17

This fall they've only offered intermediate-CS courses, but this spring they are offering courses ranging from basic CS and anatomy to entrepreneurship (I bet those can be done in your sleep/at the gym) to stuff like Human-Computer Interfaces, Computer Security, and SAAS. Still mostly in the domain of CS though...

Answer 18

I want to take a course that I know that I have all or most of the prerequisites for, because I don't have that much time.

Answer 19

I don't think any of them have any big prerequisites. The ml-class involves a lot of statistics (linear/logistic regression).

Answer 20

the only prerequisite for ml-class, I think, is some rudimentary knowledge of programming.

Answer 21

and some linear algebra :-D

Answer 22

Yeah, game theory requires some basic probability knowledge and I think I've got that.

Answer 23

Thanks anyways, and sorry for using your post :D

Answer 24

I have no idea if the game theory class will involve any programming, but I'm sure it will have a lot of math.

Answer 25

I just signed up for everything and I plan to drop off the stuff that's too hard for me (probably some of those advanced CS topics)

Answer 26

But I'm confident that the courses will be dumbed down so that I could probably work through them (which would be great :-D I'll learn a lot of CS and C/C++ that way).

Answer 27

wow that's too much. Don't you have other courses to take at college/university?

Answer 28

I don't go to uni :(

Answer 29

You should say it like this "I don't go to uni :D"!!

Answer 30

but I like uni, since I will meet girls there and earn a major :-D

Answer 31

earn a degree*

Answer 32

lol girls are everywhere!

Answer 33

but yeah maybe you'll need a degree.

Answer 34

These free, public, online courses do not provide any credit at all; I'm just doing them for fun :-D

Answer 35

:( nobody answered my original question...

Answer 36

What is cryptography