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• This year the topics of readings will be related to Machine Learning, with emphasis to the learning-related to Math Information Retrieval@FI, visualization of similarity search and Representation Learning. Other topics could be suggested in the first session.
• There is a discussion group with official course information and a communication channel, in addition to the course outline below: watch both frequently! No question is dumb in PV212 (e.g. the picture is wrong)! 🙂

Topics and Course Outline

Week 1

Join us using Zoom at the Faculty of Informatics MU on October 8 at 10 AM (CET).

1. 10:00 Class introduction, warm-up round-up discussion (expectation, topics/expertise/background, suggested topics, and readings). Bringing your research ideas to read, study, present and discuss!
2. 10:15 Principles of research communication and scientific work, Reading a scientific paper.
   CS research and doctoral studies and its evaluation at FI MU: CS conference rankings
   
3. 10:20 Importance of "selling the ideas and work", picking the right topics and questions, researching "big issues", picking the right publication forums (in CS and NLP), h-index as a measure of impact.
4. 10:25 Motivating video: DEK's advice to young students.
5. 10:30 Plan of readings/talks this term, topics to cover.
6. 10:40 Presentation with discussion by Michal Štefánik:

Week 2

Join us using Zoom, or in the room A502 at FI MU on October 15 at 10 AM (CET).

Week 3

Join us using Zoom, on October 22 at 10 AM (CET).

Week 4

Join us using Zoom, on October 29 at 10 AM (CET).

Week 5

Join us using Zoom, on November 5 at 10 AM (CET).

Week 6

Join us using Zoom, on November 12 at 10 AM (CET).

Week 7

Join us using Zoom, on November 19 at 10 AM (CET).

Week 8

Join us using Zoom, on November 26 at 10 AM (CET).

Week 9

Join us using Zoom, on December 3 at 10 AM (CET).

Chyba: Odkazovaný objekt neexistuje nebo nemáte právo jej číst.

https://is.muni.cz/el/fi/podzim2020/PV212/um/slides/When_FastText_Pays_Attention.pdf

Week 10

Join us using Zoom, on December 10 at 10 AM (CET).

Week 11

Join us using Zoom on December 17 at 10 AM (CET).

Week 11

Join us using Zoom on January 7 at 10 AM (CET).

Week 12

Join us using gather.town on January 14 at 10 AM (CET).

Week 13

Join us using Zoom on January 28 at 10 AM (CET).

Week 14

Join us using Zoom on February 11 at 1 PM (CET).

Week 15

Join us using Zoom on February 18 at 10:50 AM (CET).

Tips for readings, discussions, and presentation preparations:

1. Top2Vec towardsdatascience.com/top2vec-new-way-of-topic-modelling 
2. How to speak by Patrick Winston (youtube video)
   

Žákovi, který se hrozil chyb, Mistr řekl: "Ti, kdo nedělají chyby, chybují nejvíc ze všech – nepokoušejí se o nic nového." Anthony de Mello: O cestě

To a student who was in danger, the Master said: "Those who do not make mistakes most of all – they do not try anything new." Anthony de Mello