just in case I'm ever a professor/teacher and forget the personal side of what people might be going through: as a freshman: I started out…
lagrange multipliers: www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~klein/papers/lagrange-multipliers.pdf legendre transfors / convex duality: http://student…
How should I think about grades when [ teaching ] a class? I believe in mastery learning. Feedback isn't useful unless students have the…
(originally written as a Google doc between 2010-2012) most of this advice is obvious, but still good to remember. students appreciate food…
In any human-to-human interaction, language carries some very important high-order bits, but it can only carry a few bits. It can help…
I always found it weird that philosophy spends so much time talking about specific historical philosophers. Who cares what Aristotle, or…
substantive questions I've had these are things I've wondered about that were never answered properly in the classes in which I learned them…
As a researcher, I wonder if there's a 'critical point' of growing an idea when it's important to be [ teaching ] it, whether formally or…
working with Sinclair, Klein, Abbeel, they’ve all got great experience and advice especially for large classes You don’t have to give the…
Dave's principles of effective teaching. Motivation is by far the most important thing. A student who wants to learn will learn even with a…
Rob wants to firm up his foundations. He wants to understand relevant stats, probabilistic models, inference, and maybe work our way up to…
I want kids, eventually. I want to be able to talk with them, to build a relationship, to see the world through someone else's eyes. I want…
I didn't have a good intuitive understanding of the social landscape of being a researcher (and joining a [ research community ]). When…
See also: [ if ever a prof ], [ advice for college students ] Things not directly related to course material that I wish I'd learned earlier…