Neural Networks: Implementation and Application (CoLI/LST students only!!!!)

Hi all! I hope you are having a wonderful weekend. Here are some quick notes and reminders:

1. First quiz tomorrow at 10:15, please be on time, have a pen and a student ID with you.

2. I have graded your assignments, you should be able to see detailed feedback on your personal status page (there should be 'Show feedback' option under submission). I will highlight important parts of assignment solution during tutorial.

Hope to see you all tomorrow!

Alina

On Monday we have collectively decided to hold the first quiz next week, November 9. It will cover introductory materials and linear algebra recap. Relevant materials: Assignment 1 + Assignment 2 (Exercise 1 & 2); lecture slides Chapter 2 and 3 (excluding eigendecomposition and PCA). Assignment 2 is already available in Materials section, I will also upload tutorial slides soon. 

For quizzes you only need a pencil and your student ID; no cheatsheets and no calculators. We start at 10:15 and if you are late, you will have less time to finish the quiz, so please be on time. Total duration of the quiz is going to be 15-20 minutes.

Teams. It was brought to my attention that you could not create teams, I opened the team registration again. One of the team members should go to their Personal Status page, in Team section press Create and share the generated code with your team members so they can join. You can do that till the end of November. Without teams, only person who submitted will be able to see the feedback.

Cluster. During cluster part of the tutorial, some of you came across port 22: Connection timed out problem. Try downloading our university VPN (https://serviceportal.hiz-saarland.de/csp) and access cluster with VPN connected or, if you work with Windows, you might need additional setups (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/install) and familiarise yourself with PowerShell. Unfortunately, I have been working with MacOS for almost a decade now and couldn't provide much help during the tutorial itself. Please feel free to come up to me next week if cluster is still unclear to you.

Alina

Hi all! Assignment 1 is now available in 'Materials' sections, deadline is Nov. 3 23:59. Though you can turn it in by yourself for the first time, please form a team and submit it as a group starting from Assignment 2. Submission instructions are stated within the notebook. Even though assignments are not part of the requirements for the exam admission this semester, there will be questions in the quizzes based on those exercises. Make sure to do them on time and build intuition around core concepts to be ready for upcoming quizzes :)

Next week, Nov. 2, we will have the first tutorial. This year there is only one tutor (me) so we could only offer one tutorial slot on Monday at 10:15. You should all be assigned to that slot by now. I won't able to offer any alternative slots, unfortunately.

For the first tutorial please bring your laptops with you since we will learn how to use a cluster. It is not mandatory, but it will help you tremendously since you will almost certainly work on a cluster at some point of your studies. I am also preparing PDF instructions if you would prefer to try it out by yourself, but during the tutorial I will do it with you and show everything on my screen. If you run into any trouble, I have almost certainly run into the same issues before and will be able to help you or at least advise where to look for the solution.

There is no quiz next week, we will publish the schedule later.

Hope to see you all on Monday!

Alina