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Stanford has a lot of free courses too (Eg: this one about databases: http://www.db-class.org/course/auth/welcome ) and I think if one really wants to learn for the sake of learning and enrichment rather than having an official Stanford cert than these classes are good enough and you would not have to spend a fortune.

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Likewise, ml-class.com is currently being offered and covers some of the material under discussion.

There's quite a substantial difference between ml-class.com and the equivalent CS 229 (Machine Learning). The former is much dumbed down, but still informative.

This link gives you access to the current (2011) lecture as it's being taught, if you're interested: http://171.64.93.201/ClassX/system/users/web/pg/view_subject...

Thanks! The only links I had seen to the full CS 229 lectures to date were from a previous instance, and they were incomplete.

So far I've enjoyed CS 229A (ml-class.com) even if it has glided over a fair bit of the math, but I do want to spend time drilling down into the foundations more to make sure I know exactly why it all works the way it does and what kind of inference is valid to take from the results.

so, is ml-class.com then more comparable to the CS 229A class that is being offered this year? I'm taking the latter, and was wondering how similar the two are.

It's referred to in the materials as 229A, so yes.

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