Modified: February 23, 2020.
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…
Modified: February 10, 2022.
lagrange multipliers: www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~klein/papers/lagrange-multipliers.pdf legendre transfors / convex duality: http://student…
Modified: February 10, 2022.
How should I think about grades when [ teaching ] a class? I believe in mastery learning. Feedback isn't useful unless students have the…
Modified: December 19, 2020.
(originally written as a Google doc between 2010-2012) most of this advice is obvious, but still good to remember. students appreciate food…
Modified: February 07, 2022.
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…
Modified: June 12, 2021.
I always found it weird that philosophy spends so much time talking about specific historical philosophers. Who cares what Aristotle, or…
Modified: January 24, 2022.
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…
Modified: February 17, 2022.
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…
Modified: April 05, 2020.
working with Sinclair, Klein, Abbeel, they’ve all got great experience and advice especially for large classes You don’t have to give the…
Modified: February 07, 2022.
Rob wants to firm up his foundations. He wants to understand relevant stats, probabilistic models, inference, and maybe work our way up to…
Modified: January 25, 2022.
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…
Modified: April 11, 2020.
Modified: February 10, 2022.
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…
Modified: February 25, 2022.
I didn't have a good intuitive understanding of the social landscape of being a researcher (and joining a [ research community ]). When…
Modified: February 25, 2022.
See also: [ if ever a prof ], [ advice for college students ] Things not directly related to course material that I wish I'd learned earlier…
Modified: August 28, 2021.