Schedule

Future Classes

The future lecture topics subject to change. The allotted readings should be final but we reserve the right to change them up to a week before) the corresponding assignment is due.

The link to slides for future lectures are not “live.” Expect the lecture slides to be up within two days of the actual lecture.

Introduction

Wed, Jan 21

Lecture Welcome, etc.

No readings/assignments

Recitation Canceled!

No readings/assignments

Mon, Jan 26

Canceled!

No readings/assignments

Probability

Wed, Jan 28

Lecture Basics of Learning

No Reading

Recitation Setting Up python on your machine

Mon, Feb 2

Lecture Sets and Set Notation

PN, 1.0-1.2. Seeing Theory, Ch. 2

Wed, Feb 4

Lecture Intro to Probability

PN, 1.3-1.4.0

Recitation Introduction to Numpy

Mon, Feb 9

Lecture Conditional Probability

PN, 1.4.4

Wed, Feb 11

Lecture Independence, Quiz 1 Review

PN, 1.4.1

Recitation Quiz 1

Sets and (Conditional) Probability

Mon, Feb 16

Lecture Bayes Rule and RVs

PN, 1.4.3

Wed, Feb 18

Lecture Random Variables, cont.

PN, 3

Recitation TBD

Project Submission 1 Due

Visualizing probability in python

Mon, Feb 23

Lecture Project Interviews

Wed, Feb 25

Lecture Random Variables, Review of Probability

Recitation Quiz 2

Random Variables and Their Distributions

Linear Algebra

Mon, Mar 2

Lecture (+ing and *ing) Vectors

BV, 1.1-1.4

Wed, Mar 4

Lecture Vector Operations

BV, 3.1-3.4, 5.1-5.3

Recitation TBD

Mon, Mar 9

Lecture Vector Operations cont., Linear Combinations

BV, 6

Wed, Mar 11

Lecture Matrices

Recitation Quiz 3

Vectors and (Basics of) Matrices

Mon, Mar 16

No Lectures

Spring Break

Wed, Mar 18

No Lectures

Spring Break

Mon, Mar 23

Lecture Quiz Review and Matrix Multiplication

Wed, Mar 25

Lecture Matrix Transpose, and Motivating Eigen-thingys

Recitation Neural Networks

Mon, Mar 30

Lecture Matrix Decomosition

Project Submission 2 Due

Playing with matrices in python

Wed, Apr 1

Lecture Project Interviews

Recitation Matrix Decomposition

Mon, Apr 6

Lecture Review and Systems of Linear Equations 1

Wed, Apr 8

Lecture Eigendecomposition

Recitation Quiz 4

Modeling and Optimization

Mon, Apr 13

Lecture Intro to ML as Optimization

Wed, Apr 15

Lecture Linear Regression

Recitation Canceled!

Mon, Apr 20

Lecture Linear Regression, Neural Networks

Wed, Apr 22

Lecture Neural Networks

Recitation Project 3 Overview

Mon, Apr 27

Lecture Backpropagation

Wed, Apr 29

Lecture The Transformer

Recitation Quiz 5

Modeling and Optimization

Wrap Up

Mon, May 4

Lecture Language Modeling and Course Reflection

Project 3 Submission Due

Neural Networks in Python