[ilamont]

Relevant to this article is a blog post written by a Stanford Student taking the machine learning class:

http://pennyhacks.com/2011/12/28/stanford-free-classes-a-rev...

HN discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3399976

[justnearme]

Also if I may make a shameless plug for mine:

http://www.rioleo.org/a-reflection-on-stanfords-ai-class-db-...

Ironic, I just posted this 3 days ago.