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RIT Cognitive Science |
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Disclaimer: We may get ahead of (or fall behind) this schedule, I will try to keep this up to date but regardless, homework topics will follow the actual lecture topic pace.
Week | Topics | Homework | Reading | Special Events and Due Dates | Slides & Lecture Notes |
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1 (8/26) | Introduction, high-performance research computing (HPC), Python | NP Ch. 1, 2 | Slides (1) | ||
2 (9/2+4) | Vectors, matrices, arrays | NP Ch. 3 | Slides (1), Slides (2), Perceptron Paper | ||
3 (9/9+11) | Manipulating tensors ("ndarrays") | HW #1 | NP Ch. 5 | Slides (1), Slides (2) | |
4 (9/16+18) | Guest lecture: Using RIT RC (Viet) | NP Ch. 6 | Slides (1), Slides (2) | ||
5 (9/23+25) | Linear algebra, numerical optimization | Final Project Assigned | NP Ch. 6, Ch. 7 | Slides (1), Slides (2) | |
6 (9/30, 10/2) | Optimization, interpolation, integration | HW #2 | NP Ch. 7, Ch. 8 | Slides (1), Slides (2) | |
7 (10/7+9) | Ordinary differential equations | NP Ch. 9 | |||
8 (10/16) | Differential equations (No class on 10/14, Fall break) | NP Ch. 11 | Slides (1), Slides (2) | ||
9 (10/21+23) | Guest lecture: Spiking neural networks (William) | NP Ch. 12, Ch. 13 | |||
10 (10/28) | Statistical modeling | NP Ch. 13., Ch. 14 | |||
11 (10/30) | Statistical modeling | HW #3 | NP Ch. 14, Ch. 15 | Slides (1), Slides (2) | |
12 (11/4+6) | Guest lecture: Predictive coding (Faeze), Bayesian modeling | NP Ch. 16 | Slides (1), Slides (2) | ||
13 (11/11+13) | XX | HW #4 | |||
14 (11/18+20) | Guest lecture: Active inference PGMs (Viet) | Slides (1), Slides (2) | |||
15 (11/25) | (No class on 11/27, Thanksgiving break) | Slides (1) | |||
16 (12/2+4) | Team paper talks, concluding remarks | Slides (1) | |||
16 (12/X) | Final Exam - X/X, X:XX-X:XX | Final Exam Project | |||