Statistics

This is by far one of the best classes I have taken at Midd. Your homework each week is literally to just play the video game you are talking about (but you do seriously need to spend time playing it) and class is often just a discussion of your experience (the class size is really small so it will be very obvious when you aren't prepared). Since probability is a prerequisite for the course, we were able to dive into how the game actually implements its randomness which I found really cool. The only things that were graded in the course were 3 oral exams in which you just had to show you played the games and paid attention in class and then an extremely open-ended research paper. The thought of the research paper really scared me at first, especially because Lyford kept saying it should be to the standard of publication, but it actually was one of my favorite and one of the coolest things I have worked on here at Midd (if I could do it so can you). Lyford is incredible and he is extremely passionate about the material. This course also perfectly matches his teaching style.

This is by far one of the best classes I have taken at Midd. Your homework each week is literally to just play the video game you are talking about (but you do seriously need to spend time playing it) and class is often just a discussion of your experience (the class size is really small so it will be very obvious when you aren't pre …Read more

This course was interesting, a coding based introduction to R-Studio and we mostly just used ggplot2 and produced graphs. The class was chill and we had a midterm that was open note but seemed to be challenging for student's who hadn't been paying attention. Lock in until the midterm and then you're fine. As someone who took intro comp sci it was easy to understand what is going on and most homework was easy enough and you could ask him in class. Micheal was super passionate and made it fun.

This course was interesting, a coding based introduction to R-Studio and we mostly just used ggplot2 and produced graphs. The class was chill and we had a midterm that was open note but seemed to be challenging for student's who hadn't been paying attention. Lock in until the midterm and then you're fine. As someone who took intro co …Read more

I really like Professor Lyford. He genuinely care about the student. I like oral exam in a way that it is challenging and fun. He is so patient and he want us to do well and to understand the rationale of machine learning.