One of the main things I’ll remember this spring for is taking a whole bunch of online courses from Stanford University, mostly available on Coursera. By the way, Coursera itself is apparently built entirely on open-source tech and recently got $16 million in funding.

Back in the fall, I signed up for a ton of courses, most of which were supposed to start in February:

• Machine Learning
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Natural Language Processing
• Design and Analysis of Algorithms I
• Compilers
• Cryptography
• Introduction to Finance
• Venture Lab

The start of the courses got delayed, but by mid-March, two of them had launched: Natural Language Processing and Design and Analysis of Algorithms I.

I’ve finally gotten around to starting my own blog. I’d been meaning to do this for quite a while, but there was always some reason to postpone it — mostly the standard set (laziness, work, urgent matters). Now my work schedule has become somewhat calmer, and I’ve more or less dealt with urgent non-work matters. Besides, I got tired of constantly moving the “Start a blog” task in my planner :)