[PolyList] Breif Introduction, Specific Site Recommendation

[David Salamon]

Hey guys,
I'm not sure which keyword you bid on, but your gmail ad managed to be
perfectly placed on a recent College of Creative Studies (ccs.ucsb.edu)
administrative email. This project looks awesome :-)

I'm a big fan of Peter Norvig's, and in one of his recent talks he harped on
the idea that young projects should leverage other people's data as much as
possible.

Or to put it another way: since we now produce more data than we know what
to do with, even small teams can make a big contribution if they focus on
reuse and organization.

I'm sure you've already discussed it, but using all the open courseware
lectures on your site would rapidly help fill out your corse catalogue...
Interdisciplinary bonus points could be had by making it easy to see "what I
just saw, but from a different instructor" (so Stanford's version rather
than MIT's, then Berkely's if Stanford's also sucked), and by interlinking
the videos (links to applications of what you just had explained).

Hopefully that made sense :-p

Anyway, I'm a 7th year College of Creative Studies Computer Science student
with interests in:

* Machine Learning (Eric Baum's Hayek Machine, Hinton's recent work with
restricted boltzman machines)
* Weirdo programming languages (smalltalk, lisp, ruby, haskell, etc)
* Direct Response Marketing (Caples, Collier, Hopkins, Ogilvy, etc)
* Cognitive Biases (Cialdini, Munger's Seeking Wisdom, Kahneman & Tversky,
etc)
* Management (Peopleware, Mythical Man Month, etc, etc)
* Entrepreneurship (Stephen Gary Blank, Craig Newmark, Seneca)

And a bunch of dryer supporting subjects for the above that I'll spare you
:-)

Who else is on here? Anyone near Santa Barbara?

Looking forward to learning more about you,
David
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