Herself’s Artificial Intelligence

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.

Octave (download)

Install Octave per directions.
To start Octave from a command line create the following file and place it with permissions 755 in /user/local/bin

file name: Octave
#!/bin/bash
open /Applications/Octave.app

Next edit /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/mkoctfile
Add these lines to the bottom of the file:
# fixes to make gnuplot behave
CFLAGS=”-m32 ${CFLAGS}”
FFLAGS=”-m32 ${FFLAGS}”
CPPFLAGS=”-m32 ${CPPFLAGS}”
CXXFLAGS=”-m32 ${CXXFLAGS}”
LDFLAGS=”-m32 ${LDFLAGS}”

GNU Plot (download)

Install per directions.
Edit the file /Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot
Edit the 5th and 6th lines below and save

# Setting up various path information variables that are needed to
# startup the Gnuplot program.
GNUPLOT_HOME=”${ROOT}”
PATH=”${ROOT}/bin:${PATH}”
# DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=”${ROOT}/lib:${DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}”
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=”${ROOT}/lib”
DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH=”${ROOT}/lib:${DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH}”

More information:
Stack Overflow directions to fix GNUPlot to work with Octave on OSX

Stanford is offering free online classes in Machine Learning and Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

I’ve taken their iPhone programming class and it was fantastic. I’m going to take the AI class to brush up on things and the Machine Learning to learn some new things.

Classes begin Oct 10 and run through mid Dec 2011.