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Robert Gould
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Fall 2017 - Gould seems like a teddy bear when he talks and looks like a super nice professor when you go into that first couple of lectures... but beneath the "cuteness" there's the EVIL that lies within him... - SOOOOOOO much work for a class... every week he makes us do a homework assignment with like 15 problems and ONLY GRADES 5 RANDOM QUESTIONS which means that if the ONLY 5 you did wrong are the only 5 he chose, then your grade is screwed!!! - His wording in exams is waaaaay harder than in the homework problems in the textbook... and watch out for the WRITTEN problems in the midterm (all is multiple choice but 2 questions and they grade them HARSHLY) -We asked him for practice midterm and he was like "it takes me a long time to write a midterm, why should I take that much extra time to also write a practice midterm..." He literally wrote the textbook and cannot give us a practice midterm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...? -Also participation with clickers (which cost 60$) is only ONE (1%) PERCENT OF THE WHOLE GRADE.... like ARE YOU KIDDING ME..... -His T.A.'s did not speak english and their lab and discussion sections are SOOOO useless cuz they cant communicate well....... -And the worst part was that there was a group project in which RANDOM students gave you your grade and you can never understand it and how the system works its HORRIBLE.... People who took this class with other professors did waaaay better so I do reccomend Tsiang
Fall 2017 - Gould seems like a teddy bear when he talks and looks like a super nice professor when you go into that first couple of lectures... but beneath the "cuteness" there's the EVIL that lies within him... - SOOOOOOO much work for a class... every week he makes us do a homework assignment with like 15 problems and ONLY GRADES 5 RANDOM QUESTIONS which means that if the ONLY 5 you did wrong are the only 5 he chose, then your grade is screwed!!! - His wording in exams is waaaaay harder than in the homework problems in the textbook... and watch out for the WRITTEN problems in the midterm (all is multiple choice but 2 questions and they grade them HARSHLY) -We asked him for practice midterm and he was like "it takes me a long time to write a midterm, why should I take that much extra time to also write a practice midterm..." He literally wrote the textbook and cannot give us a practice midterm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...? -Also participation with clickers (which cost 60$) is only ONE (1%) PERCENT OF THE WHOLE GRADE.... like ARE YOU KIDDING ME..... -His T.A.'s did not speak english and their lab and discussion sections are SOOOO useless cuz they cant communicate well....... -And the worst part was that there was a group project in which RANDOM students gave you your grade and you can never understand it and how the system works its HORRIBLE.... People who took this class with other professors did waaaay better so I do reccomend Tsiang
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Gould is very tough. He crams a lot of material into a 10 week period. I easily spent more time on his class than on my other classes combined. His lectures are good and he makes himself available outside of class. Unfortunately, his exams are brutal. The labs were annoying, as they didn't seem to be teaching us anything at all. If you take the class, be prepared to work hard and attend your section.
Gould is very tough. He crams a lot of material into a 10 week period. I easily spent more time on his class than on my other classes combined. His lectures are good and he makes himself available outside of class. Unfortunately, his exams are brutal. The labs were annoying, as they didn't seem to be teaching us anything at all. If you take the class, be prepared to work hard and attend your section.
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Fall 2020 - I loved taking Stats 13 with Professor Gould! There's some busy work with this class (weekly homework assignments and coding labs), but it's fairly straightforward and relatively easy for a five unit class. He posts videos going over all of the textbook concepts before lecture so the structure of the class is really helpful for learning the material (especially for slow readers like me who usually don't use textbooks). Because of the way Gould teaches this class, you end up feeling extremely prepared by the time exams come around! If I didn't already have my heart set on medicine, I would totally love to major in Statistics because this class was just so interesting to me. 10/10 would recommend!
Fall 2020 - I loved taking Stats 13 with Professor Gould! There's some busy work with this class (weekly homework assignments and coding labs), but it's fairly straightforward and relatively easy for a five unit class. He posts videos going over all of the textbook concepts before lecture so the structure of the class is really helpful for learning the material (especially for slow readers like me who usually don't use textbooks). Because of the way Gould teaches this class, you end up feeling extremely prepared by the time exams come around! If I didn't already have my heart set on medicine, I would totally love to major in Statistics because this class was just so interesting to me. 10/10 would recommend!
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do not take this guy classes. his classes are too much hw, and also requires too many works too. I regret to take his 101A class. When I visit his office, he always smiled. however, I HATE EVEN HIS SMILING FACE. He is very selfish guy because I could not study other classes since his hw. He gave a Lot of hw even if we are confronted midterm period. I hate hate hate him
do not take this guy classes. his classes are too much hw, and also requires too many works too. I regret to take his 101A class. When I visit his office, he always smiled. however, I HATE EVEN HIS SMILING FACE. He is very selfish guy because I could not study other classes since his hw. He gave a Lot of hw even if we are confronted midterm period. I hate hate hate him
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Winter 2020 - Given the extenuating circumstances that the coronavirus has put UCLA in this quarter, I could not have been more grateful to have as understanding and accommodating of a professor as Dr Gould. He was very lenient with grading on the final project/exam, telling us to complete as much of the final project as possible and that we'd only be graded on those problems. The structure of this class was very manageable to begin with, and he focused a lot on solidifying our intuition of the concepts. We have weekly homework assignments where you do modeling in R, but none of them took more than a few hours. There was only one midterm, which was scheduled before multiple linear regression so we were only tested on simple linear regression concepts that are fairly straightforward. From the beginning of quarter, the final was just going to be a take-home project that ended up being like just another homework assignment.
Winter 2020 - Given the extenuating circumstances that the coronavirus has put UCLA in this quarter, I could not have been more grateful to have as understanding and accommodating of a professor as Dr Gould. He was very lenient with grading on the final project/exam, telling us to complete as much of the final project as possible and that we'd only be graded on those problems. The structure of this class was very manageable to begin with, and he focused a lot on solidifying our intuition of the concepts. We have weekly homework assignments where you do modeling in R, but none of them took more than a few hours. There was only one midterm, which was scheduled before multiple linear regression so we were only tested on simple linear regression concepts that are fairly straightforward. From the beginning of quarter, the final was just going to be a take-home project that ended up being like just another homework assignment.
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Spring 2016 - Gould is really nice and emphasizes understanding the intuition rather than the mathematical detail. The class is basically a walkthrough of many of the most popular machine learning algorithms. The downside is that you don't really learn how the algorithms are derived from. (You need another class for that) Homework and midterm were very easy when I took it. My favorite part about the class is the Kaggle competition which involves teaming up with classmates and competing to come up with a model that best predicts a dataset. There was no written final and the grade was based on your team's performance and the group presentation. I learnt the most from working on the project and there was no restriction on what models you could use. Fun times.
Spring 2016 - Gould is really nice and emphasizes understanding the intuition rather than the mathematical detail. The class is basically a walkthrough of many of the most popular machine learning algorithms. The downside is that you don't really learn how the algorithms are derived from. (You need another class for that) Homework and midterm were very easy when I took it. My favorite part about the class is the Kaggle competition which involves teaming up with classmates and competing to come up with a model that best predicts a dataset. There was no written final and the grade was based on your team's performance and the group presentation. I learnt the most from working on the project and there was no restriction on what models you could use. Fun times.
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