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		imp on Jan 15, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Learning About Statistical Learning For anyone doing the self-learning thing, right now there's 24 people that just started learning Stanford CS229 Machine Learning here: http://www.crunchcourse.com/class/stanford-cs229-machine-lea... (disclosure: Crunch Course is my website. I just thought it might be a good resource for people taking hamilton's advice.)

vdm on Jan 15, 2010 [–]

I didn't know about the idea of 'social learning'. I appreciate the link (and your full disclosure).

imp on Jan 16, 2010 | [–]

Yeah, it's kind of an experiment. I think some social interaction and accountability can help a lot with self-guided learning. We'll see though.

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