[romaniv]

Agree.

A lot of the things I've learned in AI class are pretty darn simple, once explained properly. So far all this knowledge has been hidden behind jargon and badly defined notations. IMO, the guys at Stanford are liberating it.

Moreover, this is the first time in my life I'm actually seeing a practical use for things like derivatives in programming I can relate to. Sure, I know there are, theoretically, lots of different applications, but I've never seen them since college. Seeing an example of a practical application makes me more interested and more likely to deepen the knowledge of the underlying math.