Class Updates

We have a couple changes to the remainder of 6.S095, given below.

1. Lecture 10 and its corresponding problem set has been cancelled. Therefore, the last two lectures will Lecture 8 tomorrow (Friday 1/21) and Lecture 9 on Monday 1/24. All registered students will receive the full 20 points for Problem Set 10.

2. The due dates for Problem Sets 6, 7 will still be on Sunday 1/23, and the due dates for Problem Set 8, 9 will still be on Friday 1/28. However, we will accept submissions up to 11:59PM ET on Sunday 1/30 without penalty. On-time submissions (by the stated deadline) will receive a 1.2x multiplier.

3. We will extend the window for both days of the 6.S095 Olympiad to give a full week, covering the following weekend. The time limit for each session remains to be 195 minutes. The window for Session 1 will now end on Tuesday, 1/25 at 9PM ET. Session 2 will still be available tomorrow, Friday 1/21 at 9PM ET and the window will close on Friday 1/28 at 9PM ET. Results for each day will be out by 11:59PM ET on the day the submission window closes.

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Announcement: the 6.S095 Olympiad will be held over the third week of IAP on Gradescope, for up to 40 points of extra credit and prizes for the top performers. Read the document in the link above for further details.

Course files (lecture notes, lecture slides, recitations, psets, pset sols) can be found via the `files` tab on canvas.

Links to recorded lectures:

lecture 1: https://mit.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=8053b799-05ec-44b6-8594-ae12010084bc
lecture 2: https://mit.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=269679d1-320d-4dbc-ac5d-ae1201008502
lecture 3: https://www.dropbox.com/s/s178vj20hffj5ad/lec3_010722.mp4?dl=0. Apologies that the parts of lecture covering slides 24-35 (Bayesian statistics, conditional expectation and variance) are missing due to technical difficulties. Please refer to the detailed lecture notes for those sections and post on Piazza with any questions.
lecture 4: https://mit.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=5dfc925c-c359-4324-a782-ae120100853f
lecture 5: https://mit.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=a4e9e21c-348d-408b-b669-ae1201008577
lecture 6: https://mit.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=9acc1c62-41c6-413d-81f0-ae1201008599
lecture 7: https://mit.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=7224eb0e-03ba-49ab-ab3b-ae12010085d6
lecture 8: https://mit.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=7f1d27b2-0b50-44f2-a131-ae12010085f5
lecture 9: https://www.dropbox.com/s/99wbfcxwjgpf4wy/lec9_012422.mp4?dl=0

Office hours:

Thursdays 2-5pm ET @ 36-153 or virtually via https://mit.zoom.us/my/peggyy