A repository of lectures and exercises on machine learning fundamentals.

Originally, the first seven lectures were written for the BAC Advanced Team's intro to machine learning curriculum, but since my graduation, I have decided to keep producing lectures and exercises at my own leisure for educational value. After all, teaching others is in itself a method of testing one's own knowledge.

Source code in this repository is structured within a Python package.

Contents

Announcement:

A lesson syllabus will be included soon.

The repo contains both .tex source for lectures and exercises in lessons as well as Python code containing reference implementations for some of the coding-related exercises in bac-advanced-ml.

Installing

From source

After cloning the repository, cd into the repository root and run

python3 setup.py build_ext --inplace && pip3 install .

Note that currently this repository doesn't have any C extension modules so the build_ext step should not do anything. As a note, building C extension modules on your platform requires that you use the same compiler that your Python interpreter was compiled with. On Linux the compiler is usually gcc, on Windows it is usually Microsoft Visual C++, and on Mac clang. However, the setup.py file will take care of all the details for you and you can trust that it gets the rather complicated compiler invocations correct.

From PyPI

Ideally, once the exercise materials are in a relatively stable state, rolling releases to PyPI can be made to simplify the installation process. This is a future concern, however, and a feature that is not yet available.

Compiling TeX source

To compile the .tex files to PDF using the compile_tex.sh file, you will need to have TeX Live installed on your system. Ubuntu users can use apt-get, but more legwork is needed for Windows and Mac users.

If one is interested in compiling to PDF only a particular .tex file, call compile_tex.sh with the name of the .tex file as an argument or use a graphical editor like Texmaker to view source and PDF side-by-side.

compile_tex.sh uses the standard chain of compilation commands, i.e. pdflatex -> bibtex -> pdflatex -> pdflatex. For detailed usage on how to use compile_tex.sh, run ./compile_tex.sh --help for help output.