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Week 1 1) Which ONE of the following are regression tasks? 1 point

Lecture 01: A) Predict the age of a person

Introduction
B) Predict the country from where the person comes from
Lecture 02 :
Different Types C) Predict whether the price of petroleum will increase tomorrow
of Learning
D) Predict whether a document is related to science
Lecture 03 :
Hypothesis No, the answer is incorrect.
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Inductive Bias
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Lecture 04 : A) Predict the age of a person
Evaluation and
Cross- 2) Which of the following is a supervised learning problem? 1 point
Validation

Lecture 5: A) Grouping people in a social network.

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B) Predicting credit approval based on historical data
Quiz :
C) Predicting rainfall based on historical data
Assignment 1

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D) all of the above
Week 1
No, the answer is incorrect.
Lecture Score: 0
material Week
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B) Predicting credit approval based on historical data
Week 2 C) Predicting rainfall based on historical data

3) Which of the following are classification tasks? (Mark all that apply) 1 point
Week 3

A) Find the gender of a person by analyzing his writing style

Week 4
B) Predict the price of a house based on floor area, number of rooms etc.
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C) Predict whether there will be abnormally heavy rainfall next year

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A) Height of a person
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Solution B) Price of petroleum

C) Mother tongue of a person

D) Amount of rainfall in a day

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
C) Mother tongue of a person

5) What would be the ideal complexity of the curve which can be used for separating the two 1 point
classes shown in the image below?

A) Linear

B) Quadratic

C) Cubic

D) insufficient data to draw conclusion

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
A) Linear

6) Occam’s razor is an example of: 0 points

(a) Inductive bias

(b) Preference bias

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
(b) Preference bias

7) How does generalization performance change with increasing size of training set? 1 point

A) Improves

B) Deteriorates

C) No Change

D) None

No, the answer is incorrect.

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A) Improves

8) One of the most common uses of Machine Learning today is in the domain of Robotics. 1 point
Robotic tasks include a multitude of ML methods tailored towards navigation, robotic control and a
number of other tasks. Robotic control includes controlling the actuators available to the robotic
system. An example of this is control of a painting arm in automotive industries. The robotic arm must
be able to paint every corner in the automotive parts while minimizing the quantity of paint wasted in
the process. Which of the following learning paradigms would you select for training such a robotic
arm?

A) Supervised learning

B) Unsupervised learning

C) Combination of supervised and unsupervised learning

D) Reinforcement learning

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
D) Reinforcement learning

9) Choose the function that has the maximum variance: 1 point

a)

b)

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c)

No, the answer is incorrect.

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c)

10)I am the marketing consultant of a leading e-commerce website. I have been given a task 1 point
of making a system that recommends products to users based on their activity on Facebook. I realize
that user-interests could be highly variable. Hence I decide to
a. First, cluster the users into communities of like-minded people and
b. Second, train separate models for each community to predict which product category (e.g.
electronic gadgets, cosmetics, etc.) would be the most relevant to that community.
The first task is a/an ______________ learning problem while the second is a/an ________________
problem.

Choose from the options:

A) Supervised and unsupervised

B) Unsupervised and supervised

C) Supervised and supervised

D) Unsupervised and unsupervised

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
B) Unsupervised and supervised

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