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# DATE TOPIC LINK
1 August 27 Course Information HTML
2 August 27 Project Guidelines HTML
3 September 3 Project Topics, 1-page proposal due Sep 20 PDF
4 September 8 Optional reading: Cover Trees for Nearest Neighbor PDF
5 September 9 Homework 1, due Sep 22 PDF.
Data: NN, NN-NoMatlab, regression,
regression-NoMatlab.
6 September 9 Homework 1 Solution PDF
7 September 26 Homework 2, due Oct 8 PDF
Data: astrophysics.zip, face-data.zip, face-code.zip,
8 Oct 16 Homework 2 solution PDF
9 Homework 3, due Nov 12 PDF
Data: inference skeleton code and data
10 Nov 19 Homework 3 solution PDF
11 Nov 23 Homework 4, due Dec 3 pdf
Data: robot_no_momemtum.data, Data: robot_data2.data

Other resources

Matrix
Matrix Cookbook
Matlab
Here are a couple of Matlab tutorials that you might find helpful:
Matlab tutorial 1
Matlab tutorial 2
Examples of machine learning algorithms.
Data
Here is the UCI Machine learning repository, which contains a large collection of standard datasets for testing learning algorithms. If you want to see examples of recent work in machine learning, start by taking a look at the conferences NIPS (all old NIPS papers are online) and ICML. Some other related conferences include UAI, AAAI, IJCAI.