Machine Learning

Welcome to the machine learning class. This lecture will introduce the basics of machine learning and set the stage for the rest of the semester. In this lecture, we will see how machine learning is an exciting and ubiquitous tool. We will look at the question of what is learning.

This lecture will also lay out the policies and administrivia for this semester’s class.

Links and resources

• Lecture slides

• Lecture videos:
  • Lecture video
  • Videos from previous versions of the class: [Spring 2023: What is Machine Learning?], [Spring 2023: Course logistics], [fall 2018], [fall 2017]

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• Chapter 1 of Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms. Available online.

Class Logistics

• Course information and policies, summary slides

• Information about the class project

Background reading

• Linear algebra and probability refreshers and other resources

• Machine learning background cribsheet, gives a list of concepts in probability, linear algebra and calculus that are useful to know