The schedule is tentative, it will very likely change as we go. Links to the course material will be provided in the schedule below before each class.

The course schedule

Week Tuesday Thursday
01 Oct 15
No class
Oct 17
No class
02 Oct 22
Introduction / organization 
[slides, 8up]
Oct 24
Linear algebra (vector, matrices) 
[slides, 8up]
03 Oct 29
Linear algebra (dot product) 
Oct 31
Linear algebra (linear transformations) 
04 Nov 05
Linear algebra (solving systems of equations, matrix inverses) 
[slides, 8up]
Nov 07
canceled
05 Nov 12
Linear algebra (solving systems of equations, matrix inverses) 
Nov 14
Linear algebra (projection, regression) 
[slides, 8up]
06 Nov 19
Linear algebra (eigenvalues/eigenvectors) 
[slides, 8up]
Nov 21
Linear algebra (SVD) 
[slides, 8up]
07 Nov 26
Calculus (derivatives / intergrals) 
[slides, 8up]
Nov 28
Calculus (derivatives / intergrals) 
08 Dec 03
Calculus (finding minima/maxima, regression) 
[slides, 8up]
Dec 05
Probability theory 
09 Dec 10
Probability theory 
[slides, 8up]
Dec 12
Information Theory 
[slides, 8up]
10 Dec 17
Regression / Wrap up 
Dec 19
ML intro: generalization, bias, variance 
Dec 24
sem. break
Dec 26
sem. break
Dec 31
sem. break
Jan 02
sem. break
11 Jan 07
Logistic regression / Perceptron 
Jan 09
SVM / Naive Bayes / kNN 
12 Jan 14
Linearity and NN intro 
Jan 16
k-means 
13 Jan 21
Hierarchical clustering 
Jan 23
Density estimation / EM 
14 Jan 28
Wrap-up 
Jan 30
Exam 
15 Feb 04
Exam solutions / discussion 
Feb 06
Practical examples