Copyrighted Free Courses - Are the Major Institutional Fashionable Free Online Courses Really Free?

I already mentioned about that issue in a post, but then I just has glanced it. Now I checked it again before register - I was disappointed and didn't sign the conditions. I'll rather satisfy my interest using other resources. According to my interpretation of the "Terms" at the site  https://www.coursera.org/about/, the courses aren't "free" (as in "freedom", liberated), just the opposite. They might be "free of charge" right now, but as stated, this is a bloody corporate contract, one-side NDA - the bosses can use...

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News: Announcement for an upcoming first AGI/SIGI, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary conference, organized by Todor Arnaudov and friends

First Conference of the Independent Society of Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary AGI/SIGI Researchers   AGI - Artificial General Intelligence SIGI - Self-Improving General Intelligence Location: Plovdiv, Bulgaria and on-line tele-conferencing Languages: Bulgarian and English Date: TBC Target directions - SIGI, AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), UAI - Narrow AI, Bridging AI and AGI, Generalizing aproaches from AI - Computer Graphics, and Virtual World Graphical and Physical Simulations - Computer Vision...

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ДЗБЕ и Юнашкото наречие: Интервюта с Тодор Арнаудов и публикации в пресата 2003 г. и 2005 г. -- DZBE and the Yunashki Dialect - Articles, and Interviews with Todor Arnaudov in Newspapers and Magazines in 2003 and 2005

Прочетете няколко интервюта с мен/материали за ДЗБЕ и Юнашкото наречие, излезли в пресата между 2003-2005 г. - част от приноса ми/дейността ми в областта на социолингвистиката, стилистиката, литературата, българския език в първите години на 21-ви век: http://research.twenkid.com/wp/interview_bg/ (Ох, каква прическа имах през 2005 г. :D) Както знаете, преди месец обявих възстановяване на ДЗБЕ, под името ДРУБЕ - Дружество за Развитие и Усъвършенстване на Българския Език. http://artificial-mind.blogspot.com/2012/02/2-drube-society-for-development-and.html...

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Jürgen Schmidhuber Talk on Ted, Creative Machines and the Omega Point | Computer Vision, 3D-reconstruction from 2D

Juergen Schmidhuber - TEDxLausanne - When creative machines overtake man Funny as usual. :) One critics I've got on the computers who will reach human brain computing power - brain power calculations are unreliable and not really comparable, and ironically brain computing power is specialized and probably some of the operations are redundant or unnecessary., A computer having power to simulate a brain is much more flexible and powerful. I've discussed on these issues on the blog and the AGI list. (Should do the digest...) Computer...

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