Course material for SYDE 556/750

🎒 Lectures

Sep 6 - Administrative Remarks [Slides]
Sep 6, 11 - Introduction [Slides] [Notes]
Sep 13 - Neurons [Slides] [Notes] [Overheads]
Sep 18, 20 - Population Representation [Slides] [Notes] [Overheads]
Sep 25 - Temporal Representation [Slides] [Notes] [Overheads]
Sept 27, Oct 2 - Feedforward Transformations [Slides] [Notes][Overheads][Neuromorphics Bonus]
Oct 4 - Nengo Tutorial [Install Nengo]
Oct 16, 18 - Recurrent Dynamics [Slides] [Notes][Overheads]
Oct 23 - Temporal Basis Functions [Slides] [Notes] [LMU Overview]
Oct 25, 30, Nov 1 - Learning [Slides] [Notes]
Nov 6 - Analysing Representation [Slides] [Notes]
Nov 8, 13 - Symbols [Slides] [Notes]
Nov 15, 20 - Semantic Pointer Architecture [Slides] [Notes]
Nov 22 - Spatial Semantic Pointers [Slides] [Notes]
Nov 27, Dec 4 - Conclusion [Slides]

The five assignments will be posted here.

Do not copy any code from other students or online sources. You are expected to write your own code from scratch for this course.
Each student must write their own code and submit their own assignment.
Assignments are due at 11:59pm EST. The late penalty is one mark per day it is late. You may be at most seven days late.
Please read and follow the instructions regarding submission posted on the front page of each assignment.

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