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Unfortunately the grad class he taught was not recorded, because it was a seminar.

Although the readings & assignments are available on class website: https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.803/index.html

Oh gosh this looks way better than I thought it would be, but that's Winston for you. I dearly miss him, and am not a fan of the new MIT Data Science classes. (I work as a Data Scientist.) It feels like the philosophy and fun has been dried out into a terse brick of knowledge, making modern MIT more like the universities that copy it, instead of something fun and exciting.

I'm seeing if I can create an ad hock study group where we'll read the published articles and come up with our own conclusions. Sadly, it will not be the same, but I'm a big fan of Hofstadter and exploration of human consciousness, so I'll do my best to filling the shoes of a giant.

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