About me
- My background: applied statistician and data scientist
- My research focus on population mental health and text-based counseling
I like mathematical and statistical models and their applications. (I enjoy games like SimCity, Cities: Skylines, Plague Inc., and Overcooked, which implicitly require some math skills.)
AI-policy
- Large language models (LLMs) perform well in answering math questions.
- LLMs could potentially help you finish your assignments.
- Their comments can sometimes be inspiring.
- Using LLMs can assist your learning and research.
Core competency
Core idea for this course
- Critical thinking statistical formula and its implications
- Ability to explain math in layman’s terms
- Math and statistics are the evidence of your intuition
Teaching activity
Teaching activity
- I draw many illustrations and mathematical examples during class.
- Illustrations might not be uploaded.
- From an educational psychology perspective, writing things down helps you learn more than typing them.
- The class pace and difficulty are adjustable.
Tutorial questions
- Each class consists of lectures and tutorial questions related to the topics.
- I won’t cover all tutorial questions.
- Exam questions are simple modifications of tutorial questions.
In-class Quiz
- You need to record a video
- Content: how do you solve a tutorial question
- Deadline: Monday or Thursday noon
- Submission methods: Class forum
- Quiz questions
- Comments on the forum posts (video) and/or other class exercise wants Ray to eaplain again at the begining of next class
- Complete either submissions (i.e. video or quiz) to get full marks
- You will only see answers for tutorial questions with video submission.
Correctness of the video is not an evaluation criterion
