Math for Machine Learning

Math 295 in Spring 2025
with professor Mark McClure

Handy links

• Syllabus
• Schedule
  • Outline
  • Calendar
• The textbook
  • Full text
  • Website
• Colab
• MyOpenMath
• The Math Lab!

Handouts

• Review for exam 1
• Exam 2 lead up
• Review for exam 2
• Review for exam 3
• Neural HW
• Review for exam 4

Colab notebooks

• Lab 1 V1: Calculus
• Lab 1 V2: Calculus
• RREF with SymPy
• Lab 2: Linear algebra, regression, and Massey rating
• Lab 3: Practical regression
• Kaggle NN
• Expression graphs and backpropagation
• Convolution
• MNSIT Digit Recognition

Demos

• Find faces
• Digit recognizer
• NCAA Predictions
• Chat GPT tries Exam I
• Chat GPT: Limits and factoring
• Massey Ratings
• Eigen-Ratings
• Kaggle’s March Madness Competition

▶ Class notes

import {regression_animation} from './js/regression_animation.js'
regression_animation();