I did the AI class and that was not the case. Stanford students were clearly separated from the online students. We didn't get the same assignments neither.
I took CS221 last quarter. So I can say that you got the same assignments and exams; you just weren't required to do the programming assignments. While ml-class was perhaps the third iteration of putting the machine learning class online, ai-class was probably the first time someone tried to put CS221 online; the professors simply felt that they wouldn't be able to automate the assignments in the time that they had. In fact, many of the YouTube lectures, which many Stanford students seemed to prefer, were often not available to us in time for the assignments and exams.
This has just proved that we need to redesign the society, we are living with an obsolete model pre-internet. Who need their interest represented by one individual when everyone can have his voice now!? It's really evident that SOPA is an example of antidemoCrazy.
I'm glad Go-Daddy changed his mind. Now, this was just one battle, the war is not over! Let's stop when SOPA is no more, let's stop when we can decide what's best for all of us!
But the power of smalltalk is not in the language syntax but in the system as an overall. It will be really interesting to see how far this goes. I'm also very curious to see something similar in the .Net platform. As you, this is one of my favorites languages.
