Notes on Learning and Planning in Intelligent Systems
Last term my choice of subject (for the master's degree) was Learning and Planning in Intelligent Systems. We were offered 3 choices, and I already have completed one of them. So it's a choice between Machine Learning or this.
With my work schedule this module was the preferred choice. But into few weeks, I noticed that I don't understand what's going on in the classroom. The course is on Reinforcement Learning, and I was completely new to the subject. The content is heavy on math which wasn't my forte.
Then came the first quiz which weighted 12.5% of the final grade. And I only got 38%.
This made me realize I needed to make serious effort if I'm to successfully finish the module. After that I spent few hours per week going through the slides, re-watching the lecture video and consulting ChatGPT/ Gemini to make these notes. And these notes helped me quite a lot to understand the subject. At the end I got a B for subject. That means I got at least 74% of the final grade.
To me that was great progress from where I started.