CS 286/4, Neural Networks, Fall 2003

Lecture 1R, 28 Aug 03


Quiz #1 (10 people passed)
BTW: For Mac OSX people, latest minimat.jar will be posted tomorrow

TOPICS:

  • Our M-files
    For MATLAB/Win: ...\MATLAB\My M-Files
    For OCTAVE/Win: ...\GNU Octave-2.1.35\usr\share\octave\2.1.6\m\
    For MINIMAT/any: same dir as minimat.jar (or subdir)
    See home page for a link to ralph's m-files
  • Review of linear algebra:
    Rules: A+B, (A+B)C, A(BC), (AB)', etc.
    Column vector convention: Tx=y (nxm, mx1, nx1 sizes)
  • HW#1 (con't) due 2T:
    M1.1 -- Confirm rules of linear algebra
    M1.2 -- Find a random 3x3 symmetric matrix (hint: consider A+A')
    Revised 26 Aug 2003 by Ralph