[webspiderus]

this is the the same class. having taken it last year (and taking Stanford's version of ml-class), this is a great choice for a more thorough exploration of the (mathematically) finer points of the methods covered in ml-class.

Although I'm hoping to stop doing that soon, I have been able to avoid watching many of the videos so far since they seem to be very similar to the concepts covered in the class last year. Prof. Ng's notes for this class (available at http://cs229.stanford.edu/materials.html) are also quite helpful for refreshing the finer points of algorithms.