CS 886Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence

Feb 19, 2024 CS course recommendation 1 point, 6 comments

“Hey y'all. I'm a graduate student at the school pharmacy. I plan to incorporate AI in drug discovery and I wonder if the CS department has any courses that can help me get started with AI. …”

u/Osteospermum: “… However, there is often a graduate topics course CS 886 that covers graph neural networks (GNNs). My (limited) understanding of papers like AlphaFold is that they draw heavily from GNNs, and learning these would be extremely useful. …”

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Apr 30, 2019 CS 480/680 Grades WOW 51 points, 9 comments

“Final exam and final score were heavily curved. I received near 90 overall with a around 50% score on the midterm. LOLLLLL Uwaterloo, where amazing happens.”

u/i-poop-from-my-butt: “I feel like I've learned nothing in this class. Would have been a much more meaningful course if Edith cut out the TL;DR 50-word summaries of the reinforcement learning algorithms at the end and just …”

u/GenesisTK: “… &x200B; This term, I audited \ 4-5 lectures of CS 886 - Theory of Deep Learning, and my takeaway is that most people are interested in the theory of neural networks until you actually see how much material needs to be built up to properly understand it (even at a superficial …”

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Jan 9, 2019 4xx CS course advice 3 points, 6 comments

“Currently enrolled in Stat 441, CS 454, 456, 485, 486. I'm thinking of replacing at least one of stat 441, 485 and/or 454 with other random courses (welcoming suggestions). …”

u/zanxiouspatience: “i would not take stat441, theres a lot of material overlap with cs485. stat441 does not go into more "math" than cs485, the assignments werent so fun either (ali ghodsi's version). cs886 (theory of DL by yaoliang) is a good course”

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Aug 1, 2018 Mmath CS coursework course selection 3 points, 3 comments

u/himanshi_1995: “… Other courses I was counsidering are CS 886/CS 889 (ADVANCED topics in AI / Advanced topics in HCI) and CS 686 (intro to AI. …”

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Oct 30, 2017 Staying in CS to take machine learning courses only 8 points, 14 comments

“I am currently a CS student going to 2B this Winter. I want to drop out of CS and go into Stats/Pmath because I am more focused on going into academia for research in machine learning. …”

u/GenesisTK: “… CS 886 - Advanced Topics in AI (Summer it's RL and Fall 2018 it's NLP). 3. CS 848 (ML for data cleaning) - not my cup of tea, but seems cool. There's a few, but I think the more important aspect is, CS at Waterloo is (arguably) more well known than STAT/PMATH/C&O. …”

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Oct 28, 2017 Any way to disable UWCourseLinker from posting? 16 points, 26 comments

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Apr 19, 2017 Anyone feeling burned out about CS? 14 points, 29 comments

u/shine-wang: “Rant: I joined CS after doing CCC things, and now think I'm staying only because it pays well and I'm decent at it, rather than actually liking it. …”

u/GenesisTK: “… If this helps, there's a lot of fun theoretical CS courses which are fun to take, CS 798, CS 860 and CS 886 are extremely fun courses, the latter being more applied and the former(s) being really theory heavy.”

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