Hey guys,<div><br></div><div>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 (<a href="http://ccs.ucsb.edu">ccs.ucsb.edu</a>) administrative email. This project looks awesome :-)</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Hopefully that made sense :-p</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, I'm a 7th year College of Creative Studies Computer Science student with interests in:</div><div><br></div><div>* Machine Learning (Eric Baum's Hayek Machine, Hinton's recent work with restricted boltzman machines)</div>
<div>* Weirdo programming languages (smalltalk, lisp, ruby, haskell, etc)</div><div>* Direct Response Marketing (Caples, Collier, Hopkins, Ogilvy, etc)</div><div>* Cognitive Biases (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">Cialdini</span>, Munger's Seeking Wisdom, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">Kahneman & Tversky, etc)</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">* Management (Peopleware, Mythical Man Month, etc, etc)</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">* Entrepreneurship (Stephen Gary Blank, Craig Newmark, Seneca)</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">And a bunch of dryer supporting subjects for the above that I'll spare you :-)</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">Who else is on here? Anyone near Santa Barbara?</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">Looking forward to learning more about you,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">David</font></div>