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Homework 0: Revision
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Question 1. (Calculus Review) (a) Consider the function
f(x,y) = a1x2y2 + a4xy + a5x + a7
compute all first and second order derivatives of f with respect to x and y.
(b) Consider the function
f(x,y) = a1x2y2 + a2x2y + a3xy2 + a4xy + a5x + a6y + a7
compute all first and second order derivatives of f with respect to x and y.
(c) Consider the logistic sigmoid:

show that σ0(x) = ∂σ∂x = σ(x)(1 − σ(x))
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(d) Consider the following functions:

Using the second derivative test, find all local maximum and minimum points.
Question 2. (Probability Review)
(a) A manufacturing company has two retail outlets. It is known that 20% of potential customers buy products from Outlet I alone, 10% buy from both I and II, and 40% buy from neither. Let A denote the event that a potential customer, randomly chosen, buys from outel I, and B the event that the customer buys from outlet II. Compute the following probabilities:
P(A), P(B), P(A ∪ B), P(A¯B¯)
(b) Let X,Y be two discrete random variables, with joint probability mass function P(X = x,Y = y) displayed in the table below:
y
1 2 3
1 1/6 1/12 1/12
x 2 1/6 0 1/6
3 0 r 0
Compute the following quantities:
(i) r
(ii) P(X = 2,Y = 3)
(iii) P(X = 3) and P(X = 3|Y = 2)
(iv) E[X], E[Y ] and E[XY ]
(v) E[X2], E[Y 2]
(vi) Cov(X,Y )
(vii) Var(X) and Var(Y )
(viii) Corr(X,Y )
(ix) E[X + Y ], E[X + Y 2], Var(X + Y ) and Var(X + Y 2).
Question 3. (Linear Algebra Review)
(a) Write down the dimensions of the following objects:

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(b) Consider the following objects:

Compute the following:
(i) AB and BA
(ii) AC and CA
(iii) AD and DA
(iv) DC and CD and DTC
(v) Bu and uB
(vi) Au
(vii) Av and vA
(viii) Av + Bv
(c) Consider the following objects:
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Compute the following:
(i) kuk1,kuk2,kuk22,kuk∞
(ii) kvk1,kvk2,kvk22,kvk∞
(iii) kv + wk1,kv + wk2,kv + wk∞
(iv) kAvk2,kA(v − w)k∞
(d) Consider the following vectors in R2

hx,yi = x · y = xTy.
Then compute the angle between the vectors and plot.
(e) Dot products are extremely important in machine learning, explain what it means for a dot product to be zero, positive or negative. (f) Consider the 2 × 2 matrix:

Compute the inverse of A.
(g) Consider the 2 × 2 matrix

Compute its inverse A−1.
(h) Let X be a matrix (of any dimension), show that XTX is always symmetric.
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