CS-498 Applied Machine Learning: Announcements

Current

1. Travel commitments force me to miss lecture on 31 Jan. You should:
   • Read chapter 3; you need to be sure you understand 3.1. The following sections are easy, and useful to have read, but we won't use them.
   • If it helps, here's a movie of one of my lectures on the topic.
2. Travel commitments force me to miss lecture on 21 Feb. You should:
   • Read chapter 8
   • If it helps, here is:
     • a movie on agglomerative and divisive clustering.
     • a movie on k-means.
     • a movie on applying k-means.
   • Nuisance viruses and pandemic precautions force me to miss lecture on 13 Mar. You should:
     • Read chapter 11, up to 11.4 (i.e. up to L1 Regularization and Sparse Models)
     • If it helps, here are movie references:
       • for bias and variance, consult the end of the 11 Mar lecture
       • a movie on Simple model selection
       • a movie on Robust regression using IRLS
       • a movie on Regression using Generalized Linear Models