Sunday, February 26, 2012

Importance of Software

Ariane 5 launch caused by 16 bit arithmetic overflow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUrqdUyEpI


We expect software to be buggy!
Also, Unexpectedly short lived code is an epic failure.

AI ML courses

Competed these courses in Fall of 2011:
www.ai-class.com
The course covers all areas of AI, based on book by Peter Norvig.
www.ml-class.org
The course was taught by Andrew Ng, Stanford prof. Assignments in Octave(just like Matlab, I hear, but free)

Completed this course from Univ of Washington, Spring 2011:
Introduction to Logic
The course was about First order logic.