CSE 257 - Search and Optimization

Introduction CSE 257 Search and Optimization by Sicun Gao was my first course on machine learning as part of my Masters. I was drawn to this course since everyone I asked told me this was more of a math than an ML course. If you know me, you would know my dissent towards ML in general, since all I ever had exposure to were libraries that did the work for you, or some basic techniques like gradient descent without knowing why it actually works, and why can people not explain the actions by ML algorithms since they seem deterministic....

March 30, 2023 · 7 min · Adyanth Hosavalike