Herself’s Artificial Intelligence

Processing huge amounts of data is going to be the next big thing. One of the open source tools for doing so is Apache’s hadoop:

What Is Apache Hadoop?
The Apache™ Hadoop™ project develops open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing.

The Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using a simple programming model. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage. Rather than rely on hardware to deliver high-avaiability, the library itself is designed to detect and handle failures at the application layer, so delivering a highly-availabile service on top of a cluster of computers, each of which may be prone to failures.

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Can’t do much with machine learning and artificial intelligence with out data so I started to put together a list of free online sources of data:

The Official WhitePages
Blekko
National Weather Service
Infochimps
OpenStreetMap
Yahoo! Finance
Infochimps
Google Books
Census Bureau Home Page
Bureau of Labor Statistics Home Page
Welcome to Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
NewsLibrary.com
American Religion Data Archive
Demographia
Government Web Resources
MedlinePlus
Internet Archive
Clark Library
Household Products Database
Econo data
St. Louis Fed: Economic Research
National Bureau of Economic Research
Fed Stats
Supreme Court
Complete Planet
Iowa Electronic Markets
Tax stats
GSS General Social Survey
PMC Biomedical and Life Sciences Journal Literature
Google’s Ngram Viewer

Human Computer Interfaces
Game Theory
Probabilistic Graphical Models
Computer Science 101
Software as a Service
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Cryptography
Design and Analysis of Algorithms I
and
Lean Launchpad
Technology Entrepreneurship

I can’t recommend these classes enough. I’ve taken the iPhone Development, Intro to Artificial Intelligence, Intro to Databases, and Machine Learning classes.

It’s my thought that the future of education will not be 4 year degrees on site, but life long learning at home.

If you need to brush up on some math first try Khan Academy, Wolfram Math World.