Machine Learning and Data Mining *  COMP9417

I disagreed with some comments below, the course was not easy at all, unless you did machine learning before, you have to teach yourself to get a good result. And besides, the final exam was a really disorganized one. It is very misleading to say that the course is easy (even if I got 90+ in the end)! However, D.r. Mick Bain was really patient during office hours, if you have any questions, just go to the office consultation hours every week, I think this is the most efficient way to understand the algorithms. In the end, if you work hard enough, you will get a good result.

考试简单 作业简单 随随便便就90+了

很容易就挂了 考试时间严重不足 哎 

This course prefectly demonstrates what disorganized means. The erroneous and inconsistant final exam was a complete humiliation to student's hard work.

I wish someone had told me not to enroll. Now I'm paying 5k for a retake

terrible experience

垃圾课，老师不负责！

垃圾课，将是不负责！

Definitely the worst course offered by CSE that I've ever experienced. 

说难听点简直就是狗屎, 课件内容一团糟, 每节课里面有100+页, 讲的完全不线性, 像是Machine Learning的百科全书的总结, 缺乏引导性. 

Lecturer(Michael Bain) 极度不负责, 课件从来不按时上传, 基本都是上课前5分钟才让你看到. Assignment release 一周之后题目文件才终于不是404, 论坛中的问题回复延迟基本是3-5天, tutorial materials到时间也不上传.

虽然说现在很多人盲目跟风ml, 但这门课开设出来真对得起300+人疯抢吗? 这5000多刀交的还不如自己去看cs229去看cousera.

也不要求跟os, ds这种课去比, 相比之下, 9318的Wei Wang虽然讲课也**真**烂, 但是能感觉到他有在努力讲课(笑. 

9417的老师每天上课都很累的样子，讲的也是有气无力的，这课一听就觉得老师是白天刚上完班，晚上过来上课，我知道的班上的很多同学都没在听这个老师讲课，都是自己上youtube按照课件的内容学。这课的作业和期中考试成绩出的也很慢，老师也多次为自己的低效率道歉，但是好是好在这门是学院里为数不多的不是double pass的课之一。这门课学的内容和Data Warehousing & Data Mining有大概3次课的内容重叠，但是两个老师讲的方向不十分一样。这课讲的内容是很好的，但是多数时间是要自学。

作者：陈迪威
链接：https://www.zhihu.com/question/24357695/answer/132740090 
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From Dan's Comp electives

- apparently really fun (see thread on csesoc) - if you are okay with some math?
- I disagree. A vacuum cleaner is less monotone than the lecturers, and the content doesn't make up for it.
- Waste of time. The exam is rote learning formulae, the assignments are boring, and the theory is only average.

听说过一个人选，貌似就是做题，没有代码的东西，想选人工智能这个方向的可以选，但是貌似我们专业的人工智能方向比较水，因为讲不深，没太大用。