If you fail the Admissions Quiz for the Deep Learning Fundamentals Lab, you’ll have a second chance to retake it after a 7-day waiting period. If you do not pass the Quiz on the second attempt, you may reapply to the Lab after a 6-month waiting period.
Please note that the Lab is intended for learners with these prerequisite skills:
- Basic linear algebra (i.e., matrices, vectors, and matrix operations)
- Basic calculus concepts (i.e., function analysis, derivatives, gradients, etc.)
- Basic probability and statistics functions
- Intermediate-level Python programming, including: basic data structures like arrays and dictionaries, the ability to write definitions for functions and classes, and familiarity with data manipulation using libraries like NumPy and Pandas.
- Familiarity with essential machine learning concepts, including supervised and unsupervised learning, overfitting and regularization, and training, validation, and test sets
Before you attempt the Admissions Quiz again, we recommend that you use the following free resources to help you prepare:
- Mathematics for Machine Learning: Comprehensive coverage of linear algebra, calculus, and probability.
- Algebra Basics at Khan Academy: Foundations, algebraic expressions, linear equations and inequalities, graphing lines and slope
- Statistics and Probability at Khan Academy: Displaying and comparing quantitative data, summarizing quantitative data, modeling data distributions.
- Python at LearnPython.org: Learn the Basics
- Applied Data Science Lab: WQU’s own Applied Data Science Lab is free and always available. The Applied Data Science Lab teaches you the Python and Machine Learning skills needed to succeed in the Deep Learning Fundamentals Lab.