Course material for SYDE 556/750

Course website: http://compneuro.uwaterloo.ca/courses/syde-750.html

🎒 Lectures

• Sep 8 - Administrative Remarks [Slides]
• Sep 8 - Introduction [Slides] [Notes]
• Sep 9 - Neurons [Slides] [Notes]
• Sep 15, 16 - Population Representation [Slides] [Notes]
• Sep 22, 23 - Temporal Representation [Slides] [Notes]
• Sept 29, 30 - Feedforward Transformations [Slides] [Notes][Neuromorphics Bonus]
• Oct 7, 20 - Recurrent Dynamics [Slides] [Notes]
• Oct 21 - Temporal Basis Functions [Slides] [Notes]
• Oct 27, 28, Nov 3 - Learning [Slides] [Notes]
• Nov 4 - Analysing Representation [[Slides] [[Notes]
• Nov 10, 11 - Symbols [[Slides] [[Notes]
• Nov 17 - Working Memory [Slides][Notes]
• Nov 18 - Action Selection [[Slides] [[Notes]
• Nov 24 - Biological Details [Slides][Notes]
• Nov 25 - Concusion [Slides][Notes]

📝 Assignments

The five assignments will be posted here.

• Do not copy any code from other students or online sources. You are expected to write your own code from scratch for this course.
• Each student must write their own code and submit their own assignment.
• Assignments are due at Midnight. The late penalty is one mark per day it is late. You may be at most seven days late.
• Please read and follow the instructions regarding submission posted on the front page of each assignment.

Assignment 1 ― due Sept 30, 2022

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Assignment 2 ― due Oct 21, 2022

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Assignment 3 ― due Nov 4, 2022

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Assignment 4 ― due Nov 18, 2022

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Assignment 5 ― due Dec 2, 2022

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