DSC 40A, Winter 2026 at UC San Diego 👋
Winter 2026
PCYNH 106
TUE & THUR 5:00PM - 6:20PM
Read the syllabus! Extra credit questions on the Midterm and Final will come from the syllabus. Check it out here . Office hours are listed under the Calendar tab.
Waitlist students: You are expected to attend from Day 1 and keep up with all course material. I accept all qualified students (those who meet prerequisites and have departmental approval). Only HDSI and the registrar can officially enroll you.
🧑🏫 Tue Jan 6 LEC 1 Introduction to Modeling (LIVE) blank filled
HW Homework 0 (not due!)
🧑🏫 Thu Jan 8 LEC 2 Empirical Risk Minimization blank filled recording
HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 1
HW Homework 1 Released (due Jan 18, 11:59 pm)
🧑🏫 Fri Jan 9 DISC Go over HW0 and LaTeX
🧑🏫 Tue Jan 13 LEC 3 Comparing Loss Functions blank filled recording
HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 2
🧑🏫 Thu Jan 15 LEC 4 Simple Linear Regression blank filled recording
HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 3
🧑🏫 Fri Jan 16 DISC Groupwork 1
🧑🏫 Tue Jan 20 DEMO Demo 2 - Linear Regression
HW Homework 2 Released (due Feb 1, 11:59 pm)
LEC 5 Simple Linear Regression, Continued blank filled recording
🧑🏫 Thu Jan 22 HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 4
LEC 6 Dot Products and Projections blank filled recording
🧑🏫 Fri Jan 23 DISC Groupwork 1 Review
🧑🏫 Tue Jan 27 HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 5
LEC 7 Orthogonal Projections blank filled recording
🧑🏫 Thu Jan 29 HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 6
LEC 8 Regression and Linear Algebra blank filled recording
🧑🏫 Fri Jan 30 DISC Midterm Review
🧑🏫 Tue Feb 3 HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 7
HW Homework 3 Released (due Feb 25, 11:59 pm)
LEC 9 Multiple Linear Regression blank filled recording
🧑🏫 Thu Feb 5 EXAM Midterm Exam
🧑🏫 Fri Feb 6 DISC Go over Midterm Answers
🧑🏫 Tue Feb 10 LEC 10 Feature Engineering, Gradient Descent blank filled recording
🧑🏫 Thu Feb 12 DEMO Demo 3 - Loss Surface Navigation (Gradient Descent)
HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 8
LEC 11 Gradient Descent, Continued blank filled recording
🧑🏫 Fri Feb 13 DISC Groupwork 2
🧑🏫 Tue Feb 17 HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 9
LEC 12 Foundations of Probability blank filled recording
HW Homework 4 Released (due Mar 6, 11:59 pm)
🧑🏫 Thu Feb 19 DEMO Demo 5 - Interaction Terms
🧑🏫 Fri Feb 20 DISC Groupwork 2 Review
🧑🏫 Tue Feb 24 HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 10
LEC 13 Combinatorics blank filled recording
🧑🏫 Thu Feb 26 LEC 14 More Combinatorics Examples blank filled recording
HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 11
🧑🏫 Fri Feb 27 DISC Groupwork 3
🧑🏫 Tue Mar 3 LEC 15 Bayes' Theorem and Independence blank filled recording
HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 12
🧑🏫 Thu Mar 5 LEC 16 Independence and Conditional Independence blank filled recording
HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 13
🧑🏫 Fri Mar 6 DISC Groupwork 3 Review
🧑🏫 Tue Mar 10 LEC 17 Naïve Bayes blank filled recording
DEMO Demo 7 - Multi-Armed Bandit (Bayesian Updating)
🧑🏫 Thu Mar 12 LEC 18 More Naïve Bayes, Review blank filled recording
LEC 19 Conclusion (LIVE)
🧑🏫 Fri Mar 13 DISC Final Exam Review
🧑🏫 Thu Mar 19 EXAM Final Exam
