Machine Learning Basics

This video, Machine Learning: The Basics, with Ron Bekkerman, looks like an interesting introduction to machine learning. I tried the Kaggle digit recognizer kNN benchmark over a month ago and it took several hours on my laptop. He does warn in the video that this algorithm can experience some scalability issues. I haven't had the desire to progress further in the Learning From Data class. Watching this video on machine learning was a step I haven't taken in quite a while. The video didn't get into much technical detail, but I didn't really feel like sitting through that right now.