Weekly plans and update for week 44

Hi all and welcome to a new week. We hope all is well.  The most important message this week (until new information on Thursday at 12pm) is that we will have our normal in-person labs on Wednesday. This may change after this coming Thursday but we hope to be able to keep the in-person labs. These are essential to the course. 

Else, we have now finalized (almost) our evaluations of project 1 and the feedback and final scorers will be posted by the end of this week. 

Last week we discussed how to solve ordinary differential and partial differential equations using deep learning and we presented a widely used unsupervised learning algorithm, namely the Principal Component analysis (PCA). We will wrap up the PCA material during the first lecture on Thursday and then start with decision trees, bagging, boosting and random forests. This will keep us busy for the next two weeks + one more day. Our final supervised method is support vector machines (last two weeks of the semester).

The slides for this week are at https://compphysics.github.io/MachineLearning/doc/pub/week44/html/week44-bs.html

Best wishes and stay healthy,

the usual gang of suspects.