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Yaser is giving an edX course now: https://www.edx.org/course/caltechx/caltechx-cs1156x-learnin...

Prof Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa's Caltech course "Learning from Data" (http://work.caltech.edu/telecourse) is probably the best introductory course for really understanding the physics of how machine learning works.

See Prof's Yaser's 1 min overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlP0DpiM7Lw

The "Learning from Data Book" videos are online for free, and the book is on Amazon...

Videos: http://home.caltech.edu/lectures.html

Book: http://www.amazon.com/Learning-From-Data-Yaser-Abu-Mostafa/d...

The course is also availble on EdX: https://www.edx.org/course/caltechx/cs1156x/learning-data/11...

⬐ eli_gottlieb

I've got the book. It's a great book, even though the Machine Learning course here at Technion is more Bayesian than AML's seemingly PAC and VC-focused book.

For a glimpse into machine learning, check out Professor Yaser Abu-Mostafa's "Learning From Data" course from Caltech. The videos are online for free (http://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html, https://www.edx.org/course/caltechx/cs1156x/learning-data/11...), and its corresponding book is on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Learning-From-Data-Yaser-Abu-Mostafa/d...).

Also Professor Ng's course from Stanford (http://cs.stanford.edu/people/ang/?page_id=22).

Edx is also offering the caltech ML course in mooc format: https://www.edx.org/course/caltechx/cs1156x/learning-data/11...

⬐ epsylon

I've taken the previous (non-edX) version and this is by far one of the best and clearest MOOC (and even offline course) I've taken.

⬐ mikevm

Note that this is not a watered-down course! It's the same course as the students at Caltech are taking, and in fact they will have the option not to attend the lectures and watch them online instead. The homework assignments will be the same ones as well (AFAIK).

⬐ MaxGabriel

This course was previously offered, though I think it was an ad-hoc offering and not through EdX. Did anyone take it, and do you have a review?

⬐ rz2k

You can view the old videos here: http://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html It is worth watching a few to see how well it is taught.

It is more mathematically rigorous with an emphasis on the theoretical fundamentals, especially compared to other online offerings that are more applied. It may not cover as many learning algorithms.

Here is a previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4206445. And, a comment about the book https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6353736

And, here are some of the impressive comments about the professor:

> Yaser Abu-Mostafa was (by enormous margin) the most effective professor I had at Caltech. Despite being such an expert in the field, he understands clearly when a concept is particularly challenging--and what about it makes it so. [...]

>What Andy says is absolutely true. This machine learning class was easily the best class I took at Caltech. Prof. Abu-Mostafa got a standing ovation at the end of the course the term I took it. I wish I could have taken more of his classes. \ It was also fairly difficult -- the assignments were hard, but at every step, you could look at what you'd done and say "I know why I'm doing this, and I can see how this works." \ I remember at the end of the term he took several students' notes and made copies of them, so that he could compare the students' notes with what he was trying to convey, and could know if he wasn't teaching certain parts of the class well enough. [...]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3704782