FAQ
Questions and Answers
1. How do I ask a question?
If you have a question or comment, follow this simple checklist:
- check whether the answer can be found on this page, if not then
- check whether the answer can be found in the slides, books, lecture recordings, or assignment sheets, if not then
- check whether the answer has already been given on the Forum, if not then
- post your question on the Forum such that TAs, tutors, and fellow students can help
- contact the TAs separately.
2. Can I email the lecturers directly?
Not unless you want your message to get lost in the enormous avalanche of emails they receive every day. You can talk to us in person before or after the lecture.
3. How long until you answer?
As soon as we can, ideally within a day. We monitor the forum and email only during working days.
4. How will you contact us?
General messages will be shared in the lectures, on the relevant page here on CMS, and/or by email to all registered students.
Organization
5. What is the difference between EML (winter term) and ML (summer term)?
EML is a 6 ECTS lecture that offers a gentle introduction to machine learning that focuses on intuition. ML is a 9 ECTS core lecture that is both more comprehensive and mathematically more detailed.
6. How is the course organized?
Lecture 0 will explain this in detail. You will find the slides and recording under Materials , in Lectures section. We answer any remaining questions in Tutorial 1. You can always ask questions in the Forum.
7. Will there be any assignments this year?
This year we will not have assignments, but you will need to instead pass a midterm.
8. What do I need to qualify for the exam?
You need to pass the midterm or the midterm resit.
9. I qualified for the exam in Winter 25/26, will my qualification pass to this semester?
No. Regardless if you qualified for the exam in the last iteration of EML.
You still need to pass the midterm this year to qualify for the exam.
Grading and Exam
10. Can I do the exam online?
No, the exams will be exclusively in person.
11. Will the exam be closed or open book ?
The exam will be closed book with ONE cheat sheet allowed.
Cheat Sheet - Handwritten A4 size (front and back).
The midterm will be closed book WITHOUT any cheatsheet.
12. Can we carry calculators to the exam ?
Yes you can carry a scientific calculator to the exam.
13. How long will the exam be?
Each student has 2 hours to write their exam. The EML team will probably need another 30 minutes for the admin process. In total, the whole exam process will take 2.5 hours. Same holds for the re-exam.
14. How will my final grade be determined?
Based on the written exam.
15. How do I (de)register for the exam?
More information coming soon.
16. I am an Erasmus student. Can I take the course?
Yes. More information on registration for the exam coming soon.
For answers to more questions, please check the Forum. If you have a question yourself, see point number 1 above for how to ask it.