Here you’ll find my notes for the second week of Neuromatch Academy 2020. Specific course content is referenced throughout. Links to the video lectures and google colab tutorials/assignments can be found here if one looks around. Videos were also posted to YouTube during the course.

Fair warning: these notes are already a bit old at the time of posting (May 2021) and I haven’t updated the content, so some of the material is no longer relevant or is incomplete. It was my intention that some of this would make it into a paper, but that has yet to materialise; I hope instead someone can find some utility in it this way.

The language has been lightly edited, so this can be considered ‘version 1.2,’ coming after what I circulated amongst students.

Notes: NMA Week 2 Recap: The Mathematics of Cognition: Inference, Reward, and Behaviour