Pre-Exam Consultation will be provided on Thursday 28 November from 2:30 to 4pm in Room K17-201B (turn left out of the elevator and tap on the glass).
Click on "Assignments" under the "Course Work" menu to the left.
The sound quality was poor for the first half of this week's lecture recording (until about 1:45) due to a microphone issue. You can use these links to view lecture recordings from 2018 which cover the same material.
Additional Lab Consultations will be provided in Weeks 5-6 and 9-10, at these times:
Tue 5-6 (Drum)
Wed 12-2 (Drum)
Wed 6-7 (Piano)
Fri 1-3 (Piano)
These are in addition to the regular consultation on Tuesdays from 2-3 in Drum Lab (which runs every week). Please also take note of updates to the FAQ for Assignment 1.
Click on "Assignments" under the "Course Work" menu to the left.
The first assignment won't be released for 2 weeks, but I thought some students might want to get a head start and begin becoming familiar with PyTorch (the library we will be using for all assignments - version 1.2). Having familiarity with the library will significantly decrease the time it will take you to do the assignments and it is better to learn it slowly.
There are lots of great getting started tutorials online, and its not terribly important which one you do, as long as it's a 1.x version, but I'd recommend the official docs to start ( https://pytorch.org/tutorials/beginner/deep_learni... ). Note that this assumes you are familiar with numpy. If you are not, you should go through (at minimum) the quick-start here ( https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/user/quickstart.h... ).
If you need assistance with working through any of the above, or just getting PyTorch installed and set up, the tutors at the lab sessions will be more than happy to help.
Something went wrong with the Echo360 recording for the Week 1 lecture, so I have created videos by editing the audio and lecture slides together, and posted them to TheBox:
1a. Overview
1b. Neuroanatomy
1c. Perceptrons
If you prefer to download the lecture slides and step through them as you listen to the audio from echo360, the alignment is as follows:
1a. Overview, Slides 1-11 (7:30 to 27:30)
1b. Neuroanatomy, Slides 1-27 (27:50 to 1:15:50)
1b. Neuroanatomy, Slides 28-39 (1:28:20 to 2:04:00)
1c. Perceptrons, Slides 1-10 (2:04:10 to 2:13:30)
Video from Document Camera (2:13:40 to 2:25:30)
1c. Perceptrons, Slides 11-19 (2:25:50 to 2:43:50)
The first lecture for this course will be at 6pm on Monday 16 September, in Central Lecture Block 7.
The old COMP9444 Web site from 2018 can be found here .