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Comment author: novalis 17 July 2012 07:49:39PM 5 points [-]

Skip "Computer Vision: The Fundamentals", at least until it is seriously reworked. The videos were poorly edited, and the material was poorly paced.

I really liked Andrew Ng's machine learning course, and, on Udacity, Sebastian Thrun's AI course (although a few sections of it were unnecessary for me personally).

Comment author: mej10 18 July 2012 05:26:02PM 1 point [-]

I also liked Andrew Ng's machine learning course. It is a great introduction to the ideas and techniques of the field.

I have since started diving into a more serious treatment of the topic by studying Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Bishop, and I will say that the knowledge from the course has definitely helped, but its main benefit was in getting me interested in the topic.