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Georgia Tech OMSCS: Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning

Tiffany Jachja
5 min readFeb 9, 2021

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Classes I took for the Georgia Tech OMSCS program.

A Review of Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning.

Over the past two years, I’ve been taking courses at Georgia Tech while working full-time. During this time, I was traveling, consulting, and working at a startup. If you have a similar workload or situation that requires 40–50 hours’ worth of full-time work a week, this may help you. This blog reviews popular courses for anyone in the OMSCS program with the Machine Learning specialization.

Let’s start with Reinforcement Learning.

CS7642: Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making

Out of all the courses that I’ve taken during this program, Reinforcement Learning has been the most engaging. It’s a machine learning course at the graduate level, so the expectation is that you have some experience in machine learning. It’s not the end of the world if you don’t. CS7641 Machine Learning would be the most helpful for easing the learning curve. But you have to start somewhere, and it’s not by any means an easy course.

The course consists of three components:

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Homework (6) 30% — Submitted as a quiz via Canvas.

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Tiffany Jachja
Tiffany Jachja

Written by Tiffany Jachja

Software engineering manager covering topics on software, personal development, and career.

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