This is the obligatory post of the recent xkcd comic:

http://xkcd.com/989/

Stanford has decided to offer a few classes online, for free. These include Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. The classes include videos of the same lectures that the Stanford students received, quizzes, homework, and exams that are graded automatically. They start on October 10.

I'm guessing that more than a few LWers will sign up for these. How many people would like to form a study group? Should we just have a discussion thread for it, or is there a better option?

Next week I'll be attending the second annual Young Cryonicists conference, which Eliezer attended before writing Normal Cryonics. I expected there to be discussion about it on lesswrong, but there hasn't been, so here it is.

• Who else is going? Is EY going? 
• What do you expect to get out of it?
• How can we use it to maximize winning?

Reference;

The most official thing I can find about the conference. (PDF)

Normal Cryonics by Eliezer Yudkowsky on Less Wrong