[LEC] CS 375 (Teaching Panel)
How’ve you approached teaching and interacting with students in the remote classroom setting?
Discussion Setting
- Making sure that if students are asking questions, making sure that they’re not relegated to chat, or only said verbally.
- Giving a lot of redundancy for students to be able to access the material
- Give a lot of different modalities to increase student participation
- Ask students to annotate their screen? If they’re not comfortable with one mode, then ask them to communicate with us in the mode that they most prefer.
- Marie likes to ask questions and pause, sometimes for an uncomfortable amount of time, encourages students to think about what they might not understand
- Marie also likes to say people’s names.
How do you teach difficult concepts to students of different experience levels?
- Ask students how did the lecture go? Was there anything that confused you in particular?
- Also inform them about dependencies - tell them what they’ll have to figure out in order to better understand specific material
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Can we make it work without more data?
- Dagger addresses the problem of distributional drift
- But what if our model is so good that it doesn’t drift?
- Need to mimic expert behavior very accurately.
- But don’t overfit!
Why might our model not be good in the first place?
- Even if the observation is Markovian, the human’s behavior might not be Markovian
- Human behavior might be multimodal (select from multiple different modes in a distribution)
If your setup is non-Markovian, you can use the entire history, by taking some kind of RNN encoder, converting the image to an RNN state, and then use multiple images (corresponding to previous time steps) as a way to convert the problem to an RNN.
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Weekly casual checkpoint
Prev meeting: Weekly casual checkpoint 202007211130
Things to ask Balaji about
- Status on the ElasticSearch migration
- What I asked him about on Friday - apparently there is some mapping that can take a given vendor id? And return whether it is a product or a vendor. That kind of mapping is only available in the BI group. How do I get access to that data mapping?
- Making sure that the columns I’m indexing on are correct - I think I was a bit unclear in the design doc, and there was some confusion.
- Sellers will select MCID and date
- Next level would be the ASIN (if they want to choose a specific ASIN), and GL also is at the same level
- I want to add a unique ID to each row in the table.
- Adding the index to the table
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16B Midterm Post-Mortem
Exam-wise, I don’t think I was prepared enough for recognizing common patterns (and not having to redo easy work). That definitely ate up a good chunk of time. I also wasn’t timing myself the best - I wasn’t really used to remote test-taking, and a big part of that is keeping yourself on track without the luxury of having the testing atmosphere around you to remind you of when you should be moving on.
I didn’t know that I should have the Jupyter notebook pulled up, and what Python libraries to use for doing things like solving eigenvalues. That exposed my lack of intuition with basic linear algebra stuff, like what to do when you have a row of zeroes (it doesn’t mean that the matrix can’t be diagonalizable! It just means that that specific eigenvector is going to look something like [0, 0, 1]). Otherwise, I don’t think I did terribly, but I definitely could have done significantly better (spent more time/practice with trickier problems, so I wasn’t looking at circuit diagrams and being momentarily at a loss for what to do.)
Created from: Daily review 07-17-20 202007172335
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Daily review 07-09-20
How did your goals turn out today?
Be organized.
Do my best on all my commitments.
Be practically independent.
Grow grow grow.
Learned about org-mode (didn’t take any notes on it though.)
Develop my social network.
Made a good impression with Parth. Connected with Seong Min a bit more.
Be a good son/brother/boyfriend/friend
Called Mulan, and had a good conversation with Tim (to a slightly less extent, with japjot).
Contribute to the world
Be more forward-thinking
Set up the 10 minute pomodoro in the bathroom! It’s going to take some time to get used to it, but I think I eventually should be able to do so.
Be more disciplined
Failed, because I messed up on the Reddit goal. I browsed Reddit for more than an hour today. Additionally, I reinstalled Twitch back again, because I didn’t know what to do while I was eating (reading wasn’t cutting it for some reason). I also browsed Reddit a good amount on my phone.
Did clean up my Things inbox, and finished EE lab, but that was pretty much it.
Be physically healthy.
Went for a walk, 9000 steps in total. Will do the
Any other thoughts?
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Review query pattern for data platform as a service
Separate for signature and core — see 202007010930
For the SP-ASIN view Parameters are product family, product group, vendor code, mcid, and ASIN level We can expect a minimum of 500 users
Do we want to be able to specific a query for a specific vendor code, or specific vendor ID, and then it’ll return a basic matrix
Multiple product groupings, GL is just a product group.
They will be able to select which vendor code they want to be able to use as parameter
Would we want to have a similar UI in Winston? Or just a background service? I don’t know if both are achievable? The front-end might not be achievable
We should have at least the tab view in Winston (charts are the last priority)
First have to target ASIN level data - if we can take one ASIN level metric
https://tableau-a3.amazon.com/#/site/SDBI_Analytics/views/AMPSASINDeepDive/SASCoreASINDeepDive https://hubble.amazon.com/ https://w.amazon.com/bin/preview/AmazonVendorServices_US/BIAnalytics/Financial%2BMetrics_Dashboard/WebHome https://rsbi.corp.amazon.com/#/site/AVS/views/FinancialMetricsDashboard/Vendor-ASIN?:iid=1
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