Author Topic: The Geek Post Whore (for the ones who miss out irl) (Read 172577 times)

Guchi_Jnr · « **Reply #660 on:** April 11, 2011, 05:16:51 AM »

My upload has died..
(thankfully though, I almost never upload stuff anymore)

SomethingWild · « **Reply #661 on:** April 12, 2011, 11:28:33 AM »

^Still great

Quote from: BarrieV on September 12, 2009, 04:24:40 PM

16 months later:

Slightly improved

Foxy Brown · « **Reply #662 on:** April 17, 2011, 08:41:08 PM »

frblckstr1 · « **Reply #663 on:** April 18, 2011, 06:42:17 PM »

Foxy Brown · « **Reply #664 on:** April 24, 2011, 10:59:38 PM »

Foxy Brown · « **Reply #665 on:** May 21, 2011, 07:54:14 PM »

Masa · « **Reply #666 on:** July 10, 2011, 02:42:12 PM »

Foxy Brown · « **Reply #667 on:** July 13, 2011, 06:14:00 PM »

Saburo · « **Reply #668 on:** July 26, 2011, 12:39:40 AM »

Facebooky for the iPad: coming soon!

Z320 · « **Reply #669 on:** July 27, 2011, 03:39:16 AM »

Quote from: Foxy Brown on May 21, 2011, 07:54:14 PM

So you´re the one who stole it.

daigong · « **Reply #670 on:** August 14, 2011, 11:33:48 AM »

stumbed upon this...free is good!

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You (YOU!) Can Take Stanford's 'Intro to AI' Course Next Quarter, For Free

Stanford has been offering portions of its robotics coursework online for a few years now, but professors Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig are kicking things up a notch (okay, lots of notches) with next semester's CS221: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. For the first time, you can take this course, along with several hundred Stanford undergrads, without having to fill out an application, pay tuition, or live in a dorm.

This is more than just downloading materials and following along with a live stream; you're actually going to have to do all the same work as the Stanford students. There's a book you'll need to get. There will be at least 10 hours per week of studying, along with weekly graded homework assignments. The professors will be available to answer your questions. You can look forward to a midterm exam and final exam. If you survive, you'll get a certificate of completion from the instructors, along with a final grade that you can compare to the grades of all those supersmart kids at Stanford.

You won't technically earn credits for the course unless you're a Stanford student, but for all practical purposes, you'll be getting the exact same knowledge and experience -- transmitted directly to you by none other than two living Jedis of modern AI. Thrun, director of the Stanford AI Lab, led the team that won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, and, more recently, he helped develop the Google self-driving car. Norvig, a former scientist at Sun and NASA, is now director of research at Google and co-author of the leading textbook on AI.

Here's how it will all work: Anyone can sign up for the course online. It starts on October 2nd and lasts 10 weeks. Each 75 minute lecture (there are two per week) gets videotaped and chopped up into 15 minute chunks that you can stream whenever you want, and homework, quizzes, and exams are all digitized and completed over the internet. Professor Thrun gave us a few more details:

Grading will be automated. But we are recording video specifically to help students who got the answers wrong. We will use the exact same questions for everyone, including the Stanford students. In this way we can actually compare how well everyone is doing.

We will use something akin to Google Moderator to make sure Peter and I answer the most pressing questions. Our hypothesis is that even in a class of 10,000, there will only be a fixed number of really interesting questions (like 15 per week). There exist tools to find them.

As of yesterday, which is only the third day that the course has been available, over 10,000 students are already signed up, and since enrollment is open until September 10th, it's entirely possible that a couple hundred thousand people could end up taking this course. Sounds daunting, but professor Thrun is optimistic about the whole thing:

I am very excited. Teaching many students online has always been my dream. This quarter I get to affect more students than in my entire career before. And yes, we are already beyond my expectations, just 3 days in.

You can sign up for yourself at the link below:

Go HERE: http://www.ai-class.com/

Check out the textbook "Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach, 3rd Edition"

Kid_Alpha · « **Reply #671 on:** August 15, 2011, 04:34:32 AM »

My dad bought a new mouse for the laptop and I'm happy cause the one my sister gave me sucks, no wonder she let me have it CAUSE IT WAS ALREADY BREAKING!

daigong · « **Reply #672 on:** August 17, 2011, 10:17:34 AM »

Best tech support ever! so i was looking for help with my printer

adventwriter · « **Reply #673 on:** August 20, 2011, 06:38:37 PM »

Enjoying my Toshiba laptop for now, but I'm pondering getting a mid-range Samsung laptop in the future.

kuro808 · « **Reply #674 on:** August 20, 2011, 11:35:05 PM »

Slack · « **Reply #675 on:** August 21, 2011, 01:08:57 AM »

Noticed my computer getting sluggish and unresponsive recently when switching browser tabs. (I usually have lots and lots of tabs open at once)
I do the normal virus/malware scans, disk cleanup, registry cleaning, the works. Nothing really helps.

Then I took a look at my memory usage and noticed it was constantly at around 80% used out of 2GB.

So I thought to myself, "Aha! The OS must be going to the page a lot!" and so I bought 4GB more.
Now I'm sitting on 6GB of ram, 34% used and there's no sign of the previous unresponsiveness.
Problem solved!

adventwriter · « **Reply #676 on:** August 21, 2011, 05:49:20 AM »

Wish I could upgrade the DSL I am currently using....but I won't complain...it's cheap.

winner · « **Reply #677 on:** August 21, 2011, 11:04:02 PM »

Played a little with Crazy Talk, it's a program like the PhotoSpeak app. Makes a person's face in a photo move.

So what did I try first with it?
Go all nerdy and make a photo of Yukirin sing, of course.

i'm helpless.

The clip is pretty much already like that just by importing the pic and song.
Just tweaked the face points, removed the extra lip movement (since it treats music as talking), set an emotion (like happy or angry), and add a little blinking.
Course, it could all be tweaked and timed right to look a little more natural. And I'm pretty surprised how much extra stuff I could edit in it.

So it's a good timewaster just like PhotoSpeak, but with more options.

J-Triumf · « **Reply #678 on:** August 22, 2011, 11:23:09 AM »

I think someone was really bored...or perhaps really Borg???

Asmodai · « **Reply #679 on:** October 01, 2011, 03:34:48 AM »

Ordered my new home theater system today as my birthday present to myself:

42" LG 42LV3500 LED TV and Onkyo HT-S3400 5.1 Channel Home Theater Receiver/Speaker

Now to wait for them to show up.