[webspiderus]

I took this class as CS 229 at Stanford, and will attest that it's pretty damn awesome (easily one of the best classes I've been able to take). The course really provides a thorough exploration of a lot of the main techniques in machine learning, and Prof. Ng also presents it in a very engaging and understandable way. This was one of the few classes where I enjoyed my 3-hour long midterm!

You can see the materials from this course's previous incarnation at http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs229/

[copper]

I wonder if you could ask if the old problem sets for CS 229 could be made available without requiring a Stanford id?

[RobPfeifer]

Thanks - was wondering what class this matched too. Will probably do this instead of the Norvig AI class.

[webspiderus]

I ended up taking the Norvig AI class after this one and felt that a large majority of the material was also covered in the ML class, but usually more rigorously in the latter and as a means to more interesting stuff. If you feel like covering the material with a definite mathematical bent, I would recommend checking out this class.

[qu]

so you are saying this class is more practical and that one is more bent on mathematical theory?

[webspiderus]

I would say that the AI class is a good overview for the field of AI - but Machine Learning is a good in-depth discussion of the machine learning approaches, which will generally also expose you to a lot of other related AI concepts.

[qu]

Thanks for that info. Now I think I will not formally enroll in the intro to AI and focus more on ML class. Since I can only truly focus on one such class at a time it would be best to enroll in something I can apply directly.

[khookie]

Thank you for your input here - I was considering the same question as well (AI vs. ML).

[waterlesscloud]

It's a tough choice. Honestly, I'm probably better off in the Norvig class. It's been 15 years since my college AI classes.

[jshen]

What "norvig AI" class?

[webspiderus]

http://www.ai-class.com/ - the equivalent of Stanford's CS 221.

[DanielRibeiro]

Gotta love how Hacker News is listed under Press, which leads to this discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2824780