Update Before March 19

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah the classes have started the classes have started the classes have started so much work

So much work, in fact, that I've made a Google Spreadsheet to detail exactly how much work I have to do for each of the five classes that haven't imploded like Info Theory has (maybe it'll start? I'm not sure if I'll take it; I have enough work with the other five aaaaaaaaaah).

Last week I watched a couple Model Thinking lectures - huzzah for that, and I finished them up. Knowing that District is next week, I tried to get ahead on my work over spring break - I now have one set of lectures for NLP, one problem set for NLP, and the programming assignments for two classes (PGM and NLP - PGM I'll have to do at home; it requires Octave) left due Sunday, but all the other classes' work is done for this week. [EDIT: looks like I have another model to learn by Wednesday! Eeek!]

I think I'll have to do a LOT of my work on these classes at home. But anyway, over spring break I learned about hidden Markov models, regular expressions, Nash equilibria, tipping points, and a closest-pair algorithm that works in the 2D plane in O(n log n) time - amongst mentions of superpixels, spam lords, revolutions, forest fires, and mergesort (yeah, the algorithms class is pretty boring).

Next up: more complicated Markovian networks, N-grams, the minimax theorem, oddly enough, Markov models again (this time in a different class), and the master method.

P.S. Turns out Model Theory goes at a pace twice what I thought it was. Whoops!