ML class journal

This is my journal for the ML class. Latest entries on top.

2011-10-06

It's 1:19am, I'm in my bedroom in Mt Riv, and I'm trying to get off to sleep. Decided to start my journal for the ML class. Been thinking about different interpretations of the term "Justice" as a result of some conversation on G. Waleed Kavalec's facebook entry. If the conversation goes on I'll probably elaborate on how the concept of justice is conflated with vengeance, and draw out Islam's "eye for an eye" morality vs. Jesus' "turn the other cheek". Was thinking about how I'd say that I didn't think Jesus was the son of god, any more than I think we're all sons of god. Anyway, that's all entirely beside the point, isn't it?

The ML class doesn't start until next week, but the first week's content is already available. I've started my notes on the ML class and ML class overview pages. Over the past few days I've been making these notes. It takes a long time.

I got my first incorrect answer to the inbuilt quiz questions in the videos. It was a question with a dataset of three points, asking for the value of the Square Error Function for J(0). I answered zero, which was wrong. Can't remember now what I was thinking at the time, although I was shocked that my answer was wrong and it took me a while to figure out why. Anyway, I obviously understand the maths much better now, because I don't even remember what my flawed interpretation was. I'm pretty sure my understanding is solid now. Still a little flakey on remembering some of the stuff from the first set of videos, but I'm getting there. Am pretty happy with my notes, and with my scheme of having the lecture notes and the overview linking in to them. It's all a fair bit of work, but I'm happy enough to do it. I just hope I don't begin having issues with having the time to get it all done, especially as I also pick up the AI class coursework beginning next week.

Now it's 1:33am, and I'm going to try even harder to get to sleep this time! :)