Machine Learning course- Shai Ben-David: Lecture 1

CS 485/685, University of Waterloo. Jan 7, 2015.
Introduction: What is machine learning? and an outline of the course. The first 8 minutes are just course administrivia - can be harmlessly skipped.

[pankajpatel]

This man is brilliant. There will be math, but he provides intuition. Please NEVER delete the videos for this class.

[CiscoTokyo]

We are following His book at our university (BRAC University)

[armankabiri]

This detailed machine learning course from University of Waterloo, will guide you through basics & advanced chapters of machine learning. It’s a conceptual course which will educate you on mathematical relations in ML algorithms. It has been taught by multiple professors including Shai Ben David, author of book Understanding machine learning. It covers topics such as linear regression, bayesian, trees, clustering, neural networks, ensemble, hidden markov model and much more. Check out the other course material here.

The first video in an introductory to the course so, feel free to skip the first 8 mins of the video.

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Such a great lecture, from great professor..

[jingyugao]

Does anybody have Solution Manual Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms (Shai Shalev-Shwartz & Shai Ben-David).
Thank you!

[mikeskater]

Thank you soooo much for sharing this with us!!

[harshshrivastava]

1:11:43 - Prof. meant unit square, I guess.

[shizidushu]

Please add subtitles to the video series. Thanks.

[RahulMadhavan]

Someone tell the cameraman that the camera should point at the board and not at the professor

[goxherecorp]

what is the corresponding text book for this course so we can follow along?

[kparag]

Sir what are prerequisites to take this course???

[sagaradoshi]

Why did Prof write domain set as [0, 1]^2 at around 1 hr 10 min

[deshraj]

Where can I get the assignments for this course? There is no webpage available.

[choatezhao]

Is this a undergraduate course or graduate course?