Free Online Courses

So apparently Stanford decided to add a bunch of courses I would've wanted to take if I went there for grad school to their free online course offering for next year (Jan/Feb 2012).

Natural Language Processing @ nlp-class.org
Software Engineering for SAAS @ saas-class.org
Game Theory @ game-theory-class.org
Probabilistic Graphical Models @ pgm-class.org
Machine Learning @ jan2012.ml-class.org (Same class as current ml-class.org)
Computer Security @ security-class.org
Information Theory @ infotheory-class.org

plus Anatomy and then a few other courses I'm not as interested in. I definitely wouldn't be able to keep up with all of these though. I already gave up trying to keep up with two courses this quarter, although I'm sort of following along at my own sluggish pace anyway. Sigh.

I went ahead and signed up for all of them anyway just for the heck of it since I'd probably want to watch the lectures at least. With all of these courses being put up for free online now I'm starting to wonder if I really want to go to grad school anyway... although granted, as far as ml-class this fall started off, they're probably going to be a bit dumbed down compared to the actual on-campus class. We shall see.

Working Life

Life is good, but I feel restless. Living alone makes me more aware of how hard it is to connect with people sometimes, especially when it takes a lot more effort to do so as they're not in close proximity anymore. I still feel that disconnect even when I do see or talk to people - like something's missing.

In previous days I'd stay up till 4 or 5 trying to elaborate more, but it is now 12:50 and past my bedtime. Good night.