Index of Assignments

Process Reflections

Reflection	Reflective Goal-Setting	Best By:	Feb 27, 2023
We plan our goals for learning, engagement, and achievement over the course of the semester.
Learning Objectives: Reflection
Reflection	Mid-Course Reflection	Best By:	Apr 5, 2023
We reflect on our learning, engagement, and achievement in the first part of the semester.
Learning Objectives: Reflection
Reflection	End-Of-Course Reflection	Best By:	May 14, 2023
We reflect on our learning, engagement, and achievement over the course of the semester.
Learning Objectives: Reflection

Blog Posts

Blog Post	Implementing the Perceptron Algorithm	Best By:	Feb 22, 2023
In this blog post, you'll implement the perceptron algorithm using numerical programming and demonstrate its use on synthetic data sets.
Learning Objectives: Implementation \| Navigation \| Experimentation
Blog Post	Optimization for Logistic Regression	Best By:	Mar 1, 2023
In this blog post, you'll implement several first-order methods: optimization algorithms based on the gradients of functions. You'll implement simple gradient descent, a momentum method, and stochastic gradient descent, comparing their performance for training logistic regression.
Learning Objectives: Theory \| Implementation \| Experimentation
Blog Post	Blog Post: Classifying Palmer Penguins	Best By:	Mar 8, 2023
In this blog post, you'll work through a complete example of the standard machine learning workflow. Your primary goal is to determine the smallest number of measurements necessary to confidently determine the species of a penguin.
Learning Objectives: Experimentation \| Navigation
Blog Post	Kernel Logistic Regression	Best By:	Mar 8, 2023
In this blog post, you'll implement kernel logistic regression, a method for using linear empirical risk minimization to learn nonlinear decision boundaries.
Learning Objectives: Theory \| Implementation \| Navigation \| Experimentation
Blog Post	Implementing Linear Regression	Best By:	Mar 15, 2023
In this blog post, you'll implement least-squares linear regression, and experiment with LASSO regularization for overparameterized problems.
Learning Objectives: Theory \| Implementation \| Experimentation \| Navigation
Blog Post	Auditing Allocative Bias	Best By:	Mar 29, 2023
In this blog post, you'll create a machine learning model that predicts an individual characteristic like employment status or income on the basis of other demographic characteristics. You'll then perform a fairness audit in order to assess whether or not your algorithm displays bias with respect demographic characteristics like race or sex, and discuss your findings.
Learning Objectives: Social Responsibility \| Navigation \| Experimentation
Blog Post	Limits of the Quantitative Approach to Bias and Fairness	Best By:	Mar 29, 2023
This blog post is actually an essay -- no math or coding is involved. In this blog post, you'll discuss the limits of the quantitative approach to bias and fairness in allocative decision-making.
Learning Objectives: Social Responsibility
Blog Post	Unsupervised Learning with Linear Algebra	Best By:	Apr 12, 2023
In this blog post, you'll implement and experiment with two simple ML approaches for image compression and image segmentation.
Learning Objectives: Theory \| Implementation \| Experimentation
Blog Post	Learning from Timnit Gebru	Best By:	Apr 19, 2023
In this blog post, you'll watch a recorded lecture by our guest speaker Dr. Timnit Gebru, propose some questions for her in our conversation, and reflect on her broad talk to the Middlebury campus.
Learning Objectives: Theory \| Experimentation
Blog Post	Optimization with Adam	Best By:	Apr 19, 2023
In this blog post, you'll implement the Adam optimizer and perform some simple experiments.
Learning Objectives: Theory \| Experimentation
Blog Post	Deep Music Genre Classification	Best By:	May 8, 2023
In this blog post, you'll use PyTorch to perform classification on a data set of song attributes, comparing approaches that use only lyrics, approaches that use only quantitative audio features, and approaches that use both.
Learning Objectives: Theory \| Experimentation

Project

Project	Project Proposal	Best By:	Apr 7, 2023

Learning Objectives: Project
Project	Project Presentation	Best By:	May 10, 2023
Your project presentation is a brief oral description of what you achieved in your project.
Learning Objectives: Project
Project	Project Blog Post	Best By:	May 14, 2023
Your project blog post is a written description of what you achieved in your project and a reflection on what you learned.
Learning Objectives: Project