I'm relatively young (25) and I still get goosebumps whenever I see online courses on cutting edge technologies offered by universities for free. What an amazing time to be alive.
In the interest of keeping you from making the mistake again, and possibly in company that wouldn't be forgiving, the term "ivy league" isn't a generic term for academically prestigious schools but refers to a specific group of schools in the northeast us. Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University.
I wonder if this Berkeley offering has anything to do with why the other Stanford/Coursera courses have all been delayed. The most recent emails claimed the delay was for "legal/administrative issues". I wonder how Stanford feels about Coursera working with Berkeley also.
It does not. The email that was sent out was sincere. As far as I know, there are some legal hurdles that are taking longer to resolve than was originally anticipated, relating for example to accessibility issues etc.
I second this! I took on learning OpenCV and writing an object recognition program for my independent study in college. It's nothing spectacular, but if you 'get' the basics, you can do some pretty crazy stuff with combinations of the primitive operations.
It's one of the classes I regret not taking in college, so I signed up. But I remember hardly anything from my Linear Algebra -- and I never really developed an intuition for the grand significance of, say, eigenvalues.
Are other people in this "want to know more, but forgot most of the base material" level? I've been working on an education project that'll get you from probability and statistics through linear algebra up to machine intelligence and computer vision. It'll also have "normal people" tracks like nutrition/fitness and understanding happiness in our mad, mad world.
Think of it as those stanford courses, but more organized, better produced, less transient, and with in person office hours (weekly in palo alto and SF).
If you'd like details, or a trial, or if you're brilliant and want to help or make course materials, email me. The more people bug me about finishing it, the quicker it'll get finished.
