At Week 2 in Stanford’s machine learning course, the childishly simple homework assignments are growing more complex. Last week I wrote, “The great joy of learning new concepts in math and science is ...

But buried in the last paragraph of the story was the fact that "The largest class on campus this fall at Stanford was a graduate level machine-learning course covering both statistical and ...

Now we’re talking. After three weeks of frustrating math dealing with dull statistics problems, we’re on to frustrating math dealing with “neural networks”—models of how the cells in your brain pass ...

Understanding machine learning can help you build recommendation engines or perform data science work.