Announcements

Week 14 Announcements

Dec 2

Lectures:

  • This week, we’ll have a guest lecture by Miles Brundage.

Assignments:

Week 13 Announcements

Nov 25

Lectures / Office Hours / Discussions:

  • No lecture, office hours or discussions this week. Happy thanksgiving to those who celebrate.

Assignments:

Week 12 Announcements

Nov 18

Lectures:

  • This week, we’ll be covering more advanced ML topics and have a guest lecture by Catherine Olsson.

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Week 11 Announcements

Nov 10

Lectures:

  • This week, we’ll be diving deeper into Machine Learning.

Assignments:

Week 10 Announcements

Nov 3

Lectures:

  • This week, we’ll be covering Particle Filtering and Applications of HMMs.

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Week 9 Announcements

Oct 28

Lectures:

  • This week, we’ll be covering Decision Networks and Hidden Markov Models (HMMs).

Midterm:

  • Midterm solutions have been posted.

Assignments:

Week 8 Announcements

Oct 21

Lectures:

  • Looking forward to covering more Bayes Nets this week.

Midterm:

Grades should be out sometime this week so be on the lookout!

Assignments:

Week 6 Announcements

Oct 7

Lectures:

  • Looking forward to covering Probability and Bayes Nets this week.

Assignments:

Logistics:

Office hours. To help us provide better support during office hours, please ensure that your help requests include (1) what you’re stuck on, and (2) what you’ve tried so far. Requests without enough detail may be deprioritized in the queue. This helps us triage issues more effectively and assist everyone promptly.

Midterm Exam. The midterm will take place on Thursday, October 17, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM PT. A detailed logistics thread will be released later this week. Exam review sessions will be held early next week, with additional details to follow soon.

Week 5 Announcements

Sep 30

Lectures:

  • Looking forward to covering Reinforcement Learning (RL) this week.

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Week 4 Announcements

Sep 23

Lectures:

  • Looking forward to covering Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) this week.

Assignments:

Week 3 Announcements

Sep 15

Assignments:

  • Homework 1 self-assessment and Homework 2 are due Tuesday, September 17th, 11:59 PM PT
  • Homework 3 and Project 2 will be released later this week and be due next week

Discussions:

  • Jerry’s new room for discussion is Soda 310.

Logistics:

  • When asking for help with code, please make your question more descriptive. For example, structure your question like this (with more detail filled in for your case): “I tried this method but it didn’t work and I suspect it is because of X reason. Here are some debugging steps I took and here is a log of the error message I am receiving.”

Week 2 Announcements

Sep 9

Assignments:

  • Homework 1, consisting of Part A and Part B, is due Tuesday, September 10 at 11:59 PM PT.
  • Project 1 is due Friday, September 13 at 5:00 PM PT.

Discussions:

Project Parties:

  • There will be project parties on Friday, September 13 from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM in Soda 341B. See the course calendar for more details.

Logistics:

  • Please do not use course staff personal emails for questions related to the course, email cs188@berkeley.edu or consider posting on Ed instead.
  • When posting private questions with code, make sure to either upload zip files of your code or use the code block functionality.

Week 1 Announcements

Sep 2

Assignments:

  • Homework 0 [Strongly Encouraged, Optional] is due Tuesday, September 3 at 11:59 PM PT.
  • Project 0 [Strongly Encouraged, Optional] is due Wednesday, September 4 at 5:00 PM PT.

Office Hours:

  • Office hours start this week and times are posted on the course calendar.

Logistics:

  • Please do not use course staff personal emails for questions related to the course, email cs188@berkeley.edu or consider posting on Ed instead.
  • When posting private questions with code, make sure to either upload zip files of your code or use the code block functionality.
  • If you are unable to enroll in the class right now, but plan to enroll later (e.g. you’re waiting for a CS major declaration to be processed), please fill out this form so that we know who you are and can add you to course platforms.