Instructors: Sergey Levine, John Schulman, Chelsea Finn
Lectures: Mondays and Wednesdays, 9:00am-10:30am in 306 Soda Hall.
We can know more than we can tell… The skill of a driver cannot be replaced by a thorough schooling in the theory of the motorcar; the knowledge I have of my own body differs altogether from the knowledge of its physiology.
When we discuss prediction models, prediction errors can be decomposed into two main subcomponents we care about: error due to “bias” and error due to “variance”. There is a tradeoff between a model’s ability to minimize bias and variance. Understanding these…
http://info.salford-systems.com/blog/bid/337783/Why-Data-Scientists-Split-Data-into-Train-and-Test
We have 3 ways of measuring the center of a distribution:
Lets look at these three a bit more closely.