Ask me again in two weeks when my online course in advanced machine learning for extreme beginners kicks off. We won't start with deep learning immediately, but it's in the pipeline not too soon after launch.
It'll be on a new site for teaching complex things in non-complicated ways. The goal is to allow everyone from clever middle school students through retired people to understand the coming changes to the world. There's a huge on-site community focus too. We don't want there to be 100,000 anonymous people just going through the motions. There will be plenty of interaction between course material and community feedback. It's kinda awesome.
Topics will be presented in multiple ways (simple and intermediate) so you can have plenty of different views on the same material. The material works as both zero-knowledge intro to the topics as well as quick refreshers if you haven't seen the material in a while (quick -- what's an eigenvector?!).
The launch courses will be 1.) real-world applications of probability and statistics (signal extractions), 2.) linear algebra for computer science, and 3.) wildcard (a random assortment of whatever the heck we think is important or entertaining to know). Future courses are: introduction to neural networks, introduction to computational neuroscience, introduction to deep learning, advanced deep learning, how to take over the world with a few dozen GPUs, avenues by which google will become irrelevant, and robotics for fun and evil.
This is phase zero of a four phase plan. I'll get some pre-launch material together to shove down HN shortly, then it'll launch a few days later. Hopefully you'll hear about the project again.
