Announcements
Wednesday, November 26
- In addition to his regularly scheduled office hours (Tues, 11--12, Thurs 3:30--4:30), Prof. Wainwright will be holding an additional hour of office hours today (Monday) from 3--4 pm in 421 Evans Hall.
- Homework solutions posted for home2sol.pdf and home3sol.pdf
- New homework posted: HW5 and here is the HW5_Data.zip.
- Paper on Variational Methods. (Wainwright, Jordan).
- Reminder that there is no class tomorrow (Tuesday, Nov. 11th)for the holiday. Enjoy!
- For anybody that didn't collect their homework on Friday, Homework 2 will be returned in class on Tuesday. (They will be alphabetized this time!)
Tuesday, October 28
- Homework 4 has now been posted. It's due November 4th, 2008.
Wednesday, October 22
- Minor clarifications on the homework. For problem 3.2, assume that $\theta \in \theta^d$ where $d=1$. Hence, the Gaussian random variables are univariate. For 3.1 (c), \sqrt{ \det(\Gamma) } should be in the numerator, not the denominator. The \sqrt{2 pi} term should read (2 pi)^{d/2}, there is a missing $d$ in the problem set.
- THIS WEEK ONLY (Tuesday Oct 21). Prof. Wainwright will not have his usual OH from 11--12. Instead, Sahand will have an extra office hour at the same time; location: 611 Soda (same place as Sahand's usual office hours)
- A clarification regarding Prof. Wainwright's Thursday office hours (every week), 3:30 -- 4:30. Prof. Wainwright typically starts talking to students after class at 3:30. If there is a group of students, everybody goes over to Evans Hall 330. If you want to join later, try Evans Hall 330, or Prof. Wainwright's office, Evan Hall 421.
- Solutions to Homework 1 have been posted. Solutions
- Homework 3 has been posted. homework 3
Sunday, September 28
- The due date for homework 2 has been postponed to Tuesday, October 7th.
- Please note The Disabled Students' Program (DSP) is looking for a note-taker! If you take clear, well-organized notes, this is a good opportunity for you to assist a fellow student and receive pay. Please come to the Disabled Students' Program Office and fill out an application. We are located in 260 Cesar Chavez right beside The Golden Bear Cafe. The application is also available online at dsp.berkeley.edu on the 'Note Takers Needed This Semester' link. If you have any questions, please send an email to dspnotes@berkeley.edu.
- Homework 2 has been posted. homework 2
Sunday, September 21
- Typo in homework due date. It is due Thurs. September 18th.
Monday, September 8
- Office hours and discussion section times and locations have been posted.
- Sahand will be holding a temporary office hours from 11-12 tomorrow at Brewed Awakening until a final office hours can be set.
- Chapter 2 can be found here.
Thursday, August 29
- Welcome to CS281a/Stat241a
- Please read Chapter 2 for next week's lectures.
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