1. Preliminaries
Learning Objectives
Talk about recent history in artificial intelligence
Mention mathematics prerequisites
Pick a programming language
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AI Landscape
areas for artificial intelligence
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Math
Math Topics
Gradients and their relation to local minima/maxima
The chain rule for differentiation
Matrices as linear transformations for vectors
Notions of basis/rank/span/independence/etc.
Programming
1. Preliminaries