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About the grades

9 setembro 2023, 16:18 • Mário Alexandre Teles de Figueiredo


Dear Students, 


The grades are now published. I apologize for the delay. 

A brief clarification about the grading criteria. First of all, I believe that grades in PhD-level courses are not very relevant, and I see these courses more as an opportunity to learn and study than to obtain a grade. It’s almost impossible to use a uniform criterion, given the very diverse backgrounds and prior knowledge about machine learning of the students taking the course. Furthermore, the high diversity of styles and types of reports makes assessing and grading them necessarily rather subjective. 

Having said that, I gave quite high grades to all the students who submitted a report. 

In grading the reports, I valued most those that showed a significant effort to do something that fits well the nature and topics of the course. I valued somewhat less those reports that are simply something that was done in another context, especially if they are far from the topics of the course. I also valued intrinsic aspects of the work, such as clarity, pedagogical value, technical level, rigor, etc…

I will be glad to discuss the grades with any student who wishes to do so.


Finally, I want to thank you all for taking this course and attending the lectures. 


Best regards, 


Mário Figueiredo. 






Final project due date

26 maio 2023, 12:07 • Mário Alexandre Teles de Figueiredo


Dear Students, 

The due date for the submission of the course projects is July 14 (the last day of the official evaluation period at IST).

Best regards, 

Mário Figueiredo.

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Skipped Lectures

18 abril 2023, 12:33 • Mário Alexandre Teles de Figueiredo


Dear Students, 

As I told you yesterday, today there will be no lecture. There will also be no lecture on Tuesday, May 2. 

Notice that Tuesday next week (April 25) is a holiday, so there will be no lecture. 

In summary, there will bo no lectures on three consecutive Tuesdays: today (April 18), next week (April 25), and the week after that (May 2).

I will compensate for the skipped lectures later.

Best regards,

Mário Figueiredo.

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Next two weeks

1 abril 2023, 17:21 • Mário Alexandre Teles de Figueiredo


Dear Students,

As mentioned before, although this next coming week (April 3 - 7) is officially the Easter break at IST, we will have our usual lectures on Monday and Tuesday (April 3 and 4).

The Easter break for the course will be on the following week: there will be no lectures on April 10 and 11.

Best regards,

Mário Figueiredo.

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Zoom links

27 fevereiro 2023, 11:54 • Mário Alexandre Teles de Figueiredo


Zoom link for Mondays' lectures:
https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/96455347457?pwd=NVhBVWFQSEJzTGdhRkM5RENXbUZBZz09

Zoom link for Tuesdays' lectures:
https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/93706318433?pwd=NUdJVkFDblp5WVpNK0tHWEE3UnR4UT09