COS 302 / SML 305: Mathematics for Numerical Computing and Machine Learning

Prof. Ryan Adams (OH: Mon/Wed 1-3pm) Zoom

TA: Joshua Aduol (OH: TBD)
TA: Jad Rahme (OH: TBD)
TA: Geoffrey Roeder (OH: TBD)

Announcements

• 22 January 2021: Precept P05 (Fri 1:30-2:20pm) is cancelled.

• Does this course count towards the SML certificate as a "Foundations of ML"? No it does not. This is not a machine learning course in of itself. This course is intended to help you get the background to take machine learning and other courses that require continuous mathematics.
• Does this course count towards the COS applications track? No.
• Can I take this concurrently with MAT 202? Yes.
• Are undergraduates and graduate students graded the same way? Everyone's assignments and exams are graded with the same rubric, but the final grades will be curved separately.
• Are precepts required? No, but you should attend precept.
• Why don't you do late days? It introduces substantial additional bureaucracy and bookkeeping. I would rather that energy be spent working with students and making the course better.
• What is Metacademy? Metacademy is an exciting online tool developed by Roger Grosse and Colorado Reed for helping you to develop personalized instruction. It's meant to help you manage what you know about different topics and develop an individualized curriculum to learn a new subject.