Homework Homework 1 is up Programming Language whatever

Look at the homework early, because… • No class next Monday • Your TA

Project Guidelines • Project proposal due October 16 (~1 pg) – Who is in

Some project ideas • The “standard” problems – Handwriting, text classification, disease detection, etc.

More “researchy” projects • A couple of project ideas related to information extraction –

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Homework • Homework #1 is up • Programming Language: whatever – Write your own code – HW questions about code: Be succinct and clear • Partial credit will be given – So briefly justifying your answers may help

Look at the homework early, because… • No class next Monday • Your TA is out next week • In the meantime, we’re both available via email

Project Guidelines • Project proposal due October 16 (~1 pg) – Who is in your group – Your task (and why is it interesting? ) – Where did/will you get your data? – Which ML algorithms will you try first? • Final project write-up due December 8 th – Web page – Report (~4 pgs, ACM format…link on course page)

Some project ideas • The “standard” problems – Handwriting, text classification, disease detection, etc. ; see the UCI ML repository • Recommendations – E. g. , the Netflix prize • Sports predictions – Question: how does “intransitivity” impact ML? – Multi-task learning • Tiny. Grams – Google n-grams corpus gives P(phrase) for up to 5 -word phrases – Based on 1 trillion words: unprecedented coverage – But around 150 G uncompressed – could an ML approximation fit in memory?

More “researchy” projects • A couple of project ideas related to information extraction – Example: Text. Runner • If interested, drop me an e-mail (soon)