Interactive Syllabus
News
- This year the topics of readings will be discussed at the first meeting. We will deal with topics related to Machine Learning, with emphasis to the learning-related to Math Information Retrieval@FI, visualization of similarity search, Representation Learning, and others.
- There is a discussion group with official course information and a communication channel, in addition to the
course outline below: watch both frequently!
Topics and Course Outline
Week 1
Join us at A502 the Faculty of Informatics MU on September 16th at 10 AM (CET).
- 10:00 Class introduction, warm-up round-up discussion (expectation, topics/expertise/background, suggested topics, and readings). Bring your research ideas to read, study, present and discuss!
- 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 - 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.
- 10:25 Motivating video: DEK's advice to young students.
- 10:30 Plan of readings/talks this term, topics to cover.
- 10:40 Presentation of our presence at SIGIR and CICM
Week 2 – Vítek Novotný
Join us in room A502 at FI MU on September 23 at 10 AM (CET).
Week 3 – Jakub Ryšavý
Join us in room A502 at FI MU on September 30 at 10 AM (CET).
Week 4 – Mikuláš Bankovič
Join us in room A502 at FI MU on October 7 at 10 AM (CET).
Week 5 – Michal Štefánik
Join us in room A502 at FI MU on October 14 at 10 AM (CET).
Week 6 – Vlastimil Martinek
Join us in room A502 at FI MU on October 21 at 10 AM (CET) or on Zoom.
Week 7 – státní svátek
Week 8 – Martin Geletka
Join us in room A502 at FI MU on November 4 at 10 AM (CET) or on Zoom.
Week 9 – David Čechák
Join us in room A502 at FI MU on November 11 at 10 AM (CET) or on Zoom.
Week 10 – Marek Petrovič
Join us in room A502 at FI MU on November 18 at 10 AM (CET) or on Zoom.
Week 11 – Dávid Lupták
Join us in room C522 at FI MU on November 25 at 10 AM (CET) or on Zoom.
Week 12 – Tereza Vrabcová
Join us in room A502 at FI MU on December 2 at 10 AM (CET) or on Zoom.
Week 13 – Dominik Rehák
Join us in room A502 at FI MU on December 9 at 10 AM (CET). or on Zoom.
Week 14 – Christmas party
Join us in room A502 at FI MU on December 16 at 10 AM (CET) (no Zoom, sorry).
Tips for readings, discussions, and presentation preparations:
- Top2Vec towardsdatascience.com/top2vec-new-way-of-topic-modelling
- 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