I just completed the “final” for Stanford’s free online course – ai-class.  Ironic to post this the day after Stanford dropped their bid to come to New York.  It was taught by two Stanford professors - Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun.  I’ve sprinked my impressions througout the description. How I found out I found out from [...]

This girl and her coworker are pairing together in this class. She said to the instructor pairing is pointless. Her partner in crime said its distracting and silly. Someone e-mailed me this story suggesting it would make a good blog.  I feel for both sides of the story here so I’m going to present an [...]

When people ask me how to learn to use a database or how to write SQL queries, I tell them to pick a database system and immerse themselves in it. In fact that advice goes for a lot of software technologies: just immerse yourself in a language, as programming tutorials are easy to come by [...]