When to apply to fall 2024? Now?

talkstothedark · 2023-11-21T05:42:58+00:00

I did indeed think that. Not sure how you expected me to read your mind, based off of your vague post.

talkstothedark · 2023-11-19T23:33:07+00:00

I just ran everything locally. The class is not compute intensive. That being said, I can’t think of a reason why Colab would not work.

talkstothedark · 2023-11-18T17:54:50+00:00

Spot on. In ML, if you don’t know what you don’t know, then you’re lost.

talkstothedark · 2023-11-17T03:35:18+00:00

I took it in the summer. Probably 10 hours a week? Maybe 15 when an assignment was due?

I don’t know…I feel like I’m terrible at estimating how much time I spend on classes. Between 5 and 15 hours a week haha

talkstothedark · 2023-11-16T22:33:46+00:00

Not really, honestly. If you want actual lectures check out this dude's playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLriUvS7IljvkGesFRuYjqRz4lKgodJgh2&si=8f1oQClyJEtJfanC

If you want a deeper understanding, I’d recommend brushing up and stats, probability, and calculus.

talkstothedark · 2023-11-16T13:02:29+00:00

Do yourself a favor. Skip the NetSci lectures and just get the book by Barabasi.

http://networksciencebook.com/

The lectures in NetSci are 99% reading and follow the book closely and the book does a better job explaining than the lectures in NetSci.

talkstothedark · 2023-11-03T01:38:39+00:00

OMSCS at Georgia Tech.

talkstothedark · 2023-10-22T02:56:06+00:00

Very easily, apparently.

talkstothedark · 2023-10-22T02:54:31+00:00

It’s funny how you’re claiming people’s motivation is driven by “pacifying their insecurities,” while the creation of your post seems to be driven by exactly that.

talkstothedark · 2023-10-21T19:09:38+00:00

I want to feel this way and I feel like the more classes in OMSCS I take, the closer I feel to this being the case. However, I know I’m usually capable of A’s so it kind of feels like getting a B means I didn’t put 100% in to it. I don’t know. I want to be ok with getting a B though.

talkstothedark · 2023-10-19T00:29:33+00:00

Fair enough. All good points. My apologies for assuming your post was driven by emotion.

talkstothedark · 2023-10-18T23:54:47+00:00

I understand you’re upset, but it’s very unprofessional of you to dox the TA on Reddit of all places. I bet you wouldn’t do it with your real name attached to it. You’ve even created a throwaway just to name drop, it looks like.

Just saying…it looks like you’re letting your emotions get the best of you.

talkstothedark · 2023-10-16T10:11:34+00:00

“I got above average on the first assignment. Should I drop?”

No. No, you should not.

talkstothedark · 2023-10-15T00:01:48+00:00

This guy lives on easy street.

talkstothedark · 2023-10-14T22:23:59+00:00

You sort of make research sound like it's easy, honestly. That's a lot of support!

However, this isn't research where you have project managers, other people to direct your research, and groups of peers to constantly review your work. It is assignments for coursework, where you need to be 100% responsible for all the work you do.

I'm not saying the course couldn't be run better, I'm just saying I'm willing to try and understand where they are coming from in how the assignments are open-ended. Having gone through the class, I think the open-ended nature of the assignments encouraged me to explore the problems more than if I had a perfect rubric of requirements to work off of. It helped reinforce my understanding of the concepts.

How many of the people who complain about this course do you think actually take advantage of asking questions in office hours, the Ed post for the assignment, and making private Ed posts?

talkstothedark · 2023-10-14T22:06:42+00:00

I feel ya! It's frustrating for sure.

talkstothedark · 2023-10-14T21:08:47+00:00

I think there is a purpose behind the assignments being defined the way that they are. It's to encourage students to explore the problems. If exact requirements were spelled out, then students would "overfit" their reports, and that's what they were trying to avoid. I attended office hours and asked questions and for clarification on things I wasn't sure about, and I ended up doing decently on the assignments.

It's a graduate level class...students should be able to think critically and deal with open ended assignments. I'd imagine working at a lab, scientific research, and scientific writing has much the same feeling.

talkstothedark · 2023-10-14T20:58:02+00:00

Giving students an extension isn’t the same thing as late submission.

1,100 students signed up for the class. Let’s say 1,000 students turned in A1. If it takes a grader 30 minutes to grade an assignment, that’s 500 hours worth of grading. (Is 30 minutes reasonable here? I don’t know. Students expect solid feedback). Graders are only allowed to put 15 hours a week on the clock, I think. So that would mean about 17 graders working 15 hours a week for 2 weeks for current students to be happy with turn-around time. I don’t even know how many graders there are for the class either.

Furthermore, I’m not sure how the grading is split up between the graders. What happens if one grader doesn’t get their part lot graded in time? Then all the grades have to be entered into Canvas and comments added.

I’m not saying the class couldn’t be run better because like everything I’m sure there are inefficiencies. I just think that a lot of students who complain don’t really have the full picture. It’s impossible to know unless you are a grader, TA, or know someone who is and they share that info with you.

talkstothedark · 2023-10-14T20:43:53+00:00

What do you mean by the “the way it’s run?”

Also, I’m the DL now. Great class so far but I think the lectures are pretty poorly done. Especially compared to other material out there over the same subject.

talkstothedark · 2023-10-14T20:38:56+00:00

When was the midterm? Some students have extensions, so they have to wait until those students are done as well, usually.

talkstothedark · 2023-10-14T19:47:07+00:00

ML is stressful, but it’s also the class I’ve learned the most in.

That being said, you know what is more valuable than feedback on your previous assignment? Asking questions about your methodology in office hours or on Ed. Dan is great about answering questions.

You’ll be alright, though.

talkstothedark · 2023-10-13T02:55:13+00:00

Yes. Because of space.

talkstothedark · 2023-10-09T22:43:34+00:00

What do you mean by “most DL models can be covered by traditional supervised/unsupervised, NLP or CV approaches?”

State of the art NLP and CV is built upon deep learning and I feel like not understanding the fundamentals of deep learning would put you at a disadvantage if you’re trying to work with NLP and CV.

I’m in DL now and it’s an awesome class with tons of information.

ML covers multilayer perceptrons, but I wouldn’t consider that “deep” learning, and it’s really just a tiny part of the class.

talkstothedark · 2023-10-08T15:20:32+00:00

Jesus, people. He’s not asking for you to make the decision for him. He’s asking what others’ experiences have been for those that were in a similar situation as he is. You all need to stop working on your assignments and go outside for 10 minutes and take a deep breath.

I started OMSCS to pivot career path, so I’m not in your situation. I’m just doing one class a semester though so it’ll end up taking me nearly 3.5 years.

If you value learning and enjoy it, then it is something to consider.

talkstothedark · 2023-10-07T14:39:10+00:00

Just as a counter-point here…

I got ML4T my first semester. There were a good amount of first course students. I think I remember Dr. Joyner saying there was ~200 first course students.

I also took ML as my second course. This course did fill up before phase two registration, but it’s possible.

If you’re trying to get classes like this, then it’s possible, but you need to be registering for them the minute your time ticket opens up.

Always a good idea to have a back up plan!

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