COMP4920 Notices

Correction to yesterday's lecture!

Posted by Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson Thursday 09 October 2025, 11:48:50 AM.

CORRECTION - ImageNet was not made by Google, it was created in 2007 by researchers at Stanford University and Princeton University. Google made Google Photo, which was similarly flawed.

Oops!!

Mea culpa - there are so many examples that I am getting them mixed up : /

All best,

Seb

Study Questions for Week 4 Lecture 2

Posted by Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson Wednesday 08 October 2025, 01:41:09 PM.

Hi everyone!

It was great to see you again today, and I am looking forward to next week. Thank you for all of your great questions! It was the most fun I have had giving a lecture for some time : )

We did not make it to the Study Questions slide, so here they are:

(1) Is a desire for value neutrality value neutral?

(2) What happens is we replace the causal model of explanation with a statistical model of explanation?

The first question invites you to think carefully about the nature of the pursuit of value neutrality itself.

The second question invites you to engage carefully with this week’s reading for the second lecture.

All best,

Se

Good luck with your first essay!

Posted by Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson Friday 03 October 2025, 10:37:03 AM.

Hi everyone : )

Just a quick note to wish you all the very best of luck with your first essay today.

Have a marvellous long weekend!

All best,

Seb

4920ers - Welcome to Week 1 (with corrections. Lectures are on Tue 2-4 and Wed 11-1)

Posted by Flora Salim Monday 15 September 2025, 08:20:31 PM, last modified Monday 15 September 2025, 09:14:07 PM.

Hi all,

It's week 1! Welcome back.

I have some students emailing me about lectures. If you're only registered for online, I still encourage you to attend the physical face-to-face lectures.
Our lecture times and locations are:
- Tuesdays 2pm-4pm at the Science Theatre (apologies! I had a typo. The lectures are on Tuesdays, not Thu).
- Wednesdays 11am-1pm at the Law Lecture Theatre.

The lectures are recorded but not livestreamed.

I'm confident we can fit as many of you who wish to attend the lectures in person, as in the many years we have this course running, it has never been overly full.

This week Seb will cover Utilitarianian ethics, and Deontological ethics (Tue), and Virtue ethics (Wed), and will talk about essay writing too.

So dont hesitate to come in. And we have SNACKS! :) You wouldn't want to miss these appetising lectures and snacks.

Best regards,

Flora & Seb

Welcome to COMP4920!

Posted by Flora Salim Thursday 11 September 2025, 07:53:44 PM.

Hi,

Welcome to 4920.

We're all looking forward to meeting you! To familiarise yourself, please check out the course outline.
https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP4920/25T3/outline

We are not using the forums on WebCMS.
We use discourse instead : https://discourse02.cse.unsw.edu.au/25T3/COMP4920
Please join us there.

See you in class next week!
https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP4920/25T3/timetable

Best wishes,
Flora, Seb, your course admins (Edward, Phil, Weizhen), and all the tutors.