In-Class Scratchpad

This page serves as a kind of blackboard/whiteboard for in-class instruction. I will use this page when it would be helpful for students to have text available outside of the slides that I am presenting.

March 25

In-Class Exercise

  • What exactly is my paper adding?
  • Is my question too broad?
  • What problem am I actually addressing?
  • Who is the audience for this paper?
  • What would make this paper useful to someone else?
  • Am I trying to do too many things at once?
  • Is there a narrower intervention that would make the project stronger?

Peer Review Exercise

  • What exactly is this paper adding?
  • Is the question too broad?
  • What problem is the paper addressing?
  • Who is the audience for this paper?
  • What would make this paper useful to someone else?
  • Is the paper trying to do too many things at once?
  • Is there a narrower intervention that would make the project stronger?

February 18

Ordinary Least Squares

Neural Networks

Word Embeddings

Tokenizer

Attention

Agentic AI