Tutorial 1: Sparsity


Video 1
  • Microphone isn't great, low audio quality overall
  • Some parts are hard to understand due to a mixture of audio quality and strong accent
  • YouTube auto-generated captions getting a lot of stuff wrong
  • potential chances for misunderstandings / student disconnects
  • Quality clears up a bit halfway though, maybe not as much of a problem as originally thought (terms appearing on the screen provide a lot of the clarification)


21st April 2025:
  • Move bonus parts to own Jupyter notebook
  • Update text, remove "cardinality" definition at the top and add it later
  • I think Section 4 also needs to be bonus section
  • Tidied up language and examples
  • Add in idea about PCA for dictionary learning from basis feature sets
  • The section "Identifying Sparse Contributions Across Frequencies" doesn't really add anything for me - it doesn't show anything above and beyond what the previous figure showed (and that's way more informative) and it's just a chance to show differences in frequency components, which is a style of plot that's already been presented in earlier sections, so I will remove it. It also felt like it needed a few sentences to introduce what's being shown, so making it effective would have just taken up even more space
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