INF1-CG: Week 9
Tasks
Your major tasks and deadlines this week are:
- Do Quiz 4, which is due on Monday 16 March at 5pm.
- Work on Assignment 1, which is due on Monday 23 March 12:00 noon.
- Attend lectures 24, 25, and 26.
- Attend your tutorial group.
- Read the readings for this week.
Lectures
| No | Date | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 24 | 17 Mar | Word Embeddings and Large Language Models (LLMs) |
| 25 | 19 Mar | Linguistic Relativity and Social Cognition |
| 26 | 20 Mar | Social Cognition, Continued |
All lectures will be livestreamed and recorded on Echo Video. You may have to log on through Learn before this link works.
Readings
The links below direct you to the University Library or to Piazza. You will need to log on to access the full text.
Readings come in two flavours: recommended and suggested.
| Jurafsky & Martin 2019 | Vector Semantics and Embeddings. Speech and Language Processing. (textbook) Daniel Jurafsky & James H. Martin. 2019. | Recommended |
| Riedl 2025 | The Intuition Behind How Large Language Models Work: Part I and Part II. | |
| Riedl 2023 | A Very Gentle Introduction to Large Language Models without the Hype |
Assignments
To access the assignments, please login in through Learn, and then go the link “Notable LTI 1.3”.
Labs
TBC: There will be drop-in lab sessions for those with deadline extensions. Look out for announcements on Learn for details.
License
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