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

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 ...

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 ...

Most of the rest of Stanford’s machine-learning course is devoted to learning how to write these sorts of algorithms.

So Stanford is partnering with Piazza, a free program that allows students to interact with professors, teaching assistants and other students in real time, to allow online subscribers to one of its ...