Biocybernetics 2021/22

Notes and screencasts by week

• Screencasts are only available with a University of Reading login
• For the screencast version with transcripts watch on Microsoft Stream (button in bottom right hand corner of video)
• A pdf version of the notes available on blackboard under Learning Materials

Autumn week 7

• introduction, What is cybernetics
• Lab session Mon 08-11-2021 in Polly Vacher 184
• Matlab courses

• Screencast week 7: What is biological cybernetics (Part 1) (10:15) (https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/260f4ec5-093f-4052-9161-8814237d1ef5)
• Screencast week 7: What is biological cybernetics (Part 2) (17:53) (https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/8621d9fc-5a2a-4e6c-a8ef-a3f773c33eae)

Autumn week 8

• Linear First and second order systems
• Numerical integration
• Week 8 classroom

• Screencast Autumn week 8: Second ord and stability (https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/6013d0e9-c849-4c15-8e44-3b657332de1e) (14:06)
• Screencast Autumn week 8: Numerical integration (https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/8121fdf5-8b1a-416f-a8c2-ba45dcb50b60) (15:58)

Autumn week 9

• Phase plane
• Phase plane gradient
• Lab session Mon 22-11-2021 in Polly Vacher 184

• Screencast Autumn week 9: The phase plane (27:38) (https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/fefc8499-ee12-4baf-bde9-f288e1d7da59)
• Screencast Autumn week 9: Phase plane gradients (14:53) (https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/904418ca-eef6-44ef-88b4-865c59f199e4)

Autumn week 10

• Some examples of non-linear systems
• Model fitting - least squares

• Screencast Autumn week 10: Least squares model fitting (https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/fe2a9502-55c1-4938-9c1d-239daa6c7a0d) (26:03)
• Screencast Autumn week 10: Some non-linear models (https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/1a64ed79-694c-46b9-9c3e-b6af4e9ddf4c) (26:49)

Autumn week 11

• Model fitting - optimisation
• Screencast Autumn week 10: Optimisation methods (function minimisation) (https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/6cecc84e-02bf-43f3-949f-abca43473b1c) (29:33)

• What is intelligence?
• Screencast Spring week S7: Learning machines (start at 2:18) (https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/ef28961a-e7c8-4219-b1f8-2ed7853a4636) (11:16)

• Lecture: BI2BC17 - LECTURE 21 Feb 2022 (https://web.microsoftstream.com/videoupdate/ed29d088-cbe1-4ebc-ab84-e219ea4eafff)

• Machine intelligence
• Screencast Spring Week S8: Linear classifiers (https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/26e7e810-e916-4cd6-b748-2e61ac32e68a) (25:24)
• Screencast Spring Week S8: Decision trees (https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/9f057853-8d45-453d-a0b2-fbf5706ca5f3) (11:05)

• Lecture: BI2BC17 - LECTURE 28 Feb 2022 (am) (https://web.microsoftstream.com/videoupdate/fd317525-7f23-497b-b52c-5ebfa1401b78) (51:12)

• Neural Networks
• Screencast: Least squares recap (https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/f8df49b7-bbc7-4b89-a954-7e8c361ab1df) (22:03) (See also Autumn week 10)
• Screencast: Single layer ANN (https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/86aef1e4-786a-49b7-959f-50d5ed1c9547) (26:13)
• Screencast: Multilayer ANN (https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/a5bec62f-a875-41bf-97b9-7dcd16037994) (15:39)

• BI2BC17 - LECTURE 7 March 2022 (am) (https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/91e99d6e-1f99-4376-8b23-77832a0f5c4c) (50:50 ish)
• BI2BC17 - LECTURE (pm) (Q4 of the 2020-21 exam) (https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/c55ecb50-aede-4ce9-bd80-bf5e7f76198f) (35:28) (See whiteboard on bb)

Auxillary material

• How Deep Learning Works: Inside the neural networks that power today's AI
• (https://spectrum.ieee.org/what-is-deep-learning)
• Samuel K. Moore, David Schneider and Eliza Strickland
• IEEE Spectrum October 2021

• 7 Revealing Ways AIs Fail
• (https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-failures)
• Charles Q. Choi
• IEEE Spectrum October 2021

• Performance evaluation

• Screencast: Test and classifier evaluation: confusion matrices (https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/96e6185b-eb1b-4bab-9353-98c36f91a7d4) (31:31)
• Screencast: Test and classifier evaluation: ROC curves (https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/e0551b5e-91db-437d-aedc-1ebf1be5be32) (14:18)

• BI2BC17 - LECTURE 14 March 2022 am (https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/60757242-6aa8-4995-88fe-3e260a52990e) (48:08)
• BI2BC17 - LECTURE 14 March 2022 pm (https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/2ff8e7d5-85de-4ace-8f4d-38bd9b1831ec) (48:22) See whiteboard on bb learning materials/non-linear