Session 1: Intro
- Intro of outline & lecturer
- Intro of participants
- Teaching approach and grading requirements
- Group exploration - getting to know each other
- Setting up communication channels, open space / Q&A
Also available in the session doc
whoami
- in daily life: jackie
- legal name: Andrea Ida Malkah Klaura
- i like all of them
- my NN is currently trained on jackie
Level up!
That gender you got at birth? That's just a tutorial gender.
You're only supposed to use it to get the hang on this world's gender system
and then ditch it for a stronger one, not use it your entire life, noob
Source: kirin@monads.online, January 14, 2021 on Mastodon
technoscientific background
- until 2002: HTL für Technische Informatik & Internet Engineering
- short excursion into philosophy
- until 2009: BSc Technische Informatik @ TU Wien
- 🤔
if life then: term_scaling = 'years'
- until 2014: MA Science - Technology - Society @ Uni Wien
- afterwards short excursion to TU again: Educational Technologies
- 2017-2020: MSc IT Security @ FH Technikum, extra occupational
- notable work engagements:
- 2016-2020: IT maschinist @ Radio ORANGE 94.0
- smaller web projects on the side
- since 2020: web engineer @ dieAngewandte
- seit 2021, additionally: lecturer @ Angewandte Coding Lab
- since now:
- Software Engineering lecturer @ FH Wien
- Feminist Technoscience Studies lecturer @ TU Wien
what are you trying to tell us?
- I'm not an ML expert
- But I like how robots think
- And I sometimes think like robots
- We all are responsible to learn something
- I am responsible for the course facilitation
your turn
intro of participants
- current name and pronouns in use
- current study programme
- how you came to be in this course
- anything else we need to know about you
teaching approach & grading requirements
... vs. realities
- amount of work will strongly differ individually
- calculated amount should be ok to get a good grade
- "excellence" is strongly dependent on environmental conditions
- intrinsic motivation is key
- study-life balance 😎
Sociogramming
- How many people in this room do you already know?
- Where do you live currently?
- Where have you started to live?
- When did you first get access to a computer (in life years)
- When did you first get access to a computer (the year)
- How many books (roughly) where in the household you grew up in?
- When did you visit your first course at dieAngewandte?
- Coding-related courses visited at the Angewandte?
- Experience with Python
- Experience with ML
Communication channels
- base chat channel
- for asnyc comm in general
- for active participation (formalities)
- base cloud folder
- to share interesting stuff that does not fit into the chat
- for exercise & project submission
- The official docs:
https://tantemalkah.at/2023/machine-learning