2014-10-10 online.stanford.eduMining Massive Data SetsThis class teaches algorithms for extracting models and other information from very large amounts of data. The emphasis is on techniques that are efficient and that scale well.
2021-04-06 nlp.stanford.eduIntroduction to Information RetrievalThe book aims to provide a modern approach to information retrieval from a computer science perspective. It is based on a course we have been teaching in various forms at Stanford University, the University of Stuttgart and the University of Munich.
2026-03-05 www-cs-faculty.stanford.eduClaude’s Cycles [PDF]Shock! Shock! I learned yesterday that an open problem I’d been working on for several weeks had just been solved by Claude Opus 4.6— Anthropic’s hybrid reasoning model that had been released three weeks earlier! It seems that I’ll have to revise my opinions about “generative AI” one of these days. What a joy it is to learn not only that my conjecture has a nice solution but also to celebrate this dramatic advance in automatic deduction and creative problem solving. I’ll try to tell the story briefly in this note.