Week 01
Start here / Live introduction
The bench, live
Meet the benchmark. Draw again and watch the estimate move while the population score stays fixed.
A live introduction, four formal lectures and a course closing: derive the number, question the estimate, change the instrument, defend the report.
SLOP8412 / Lecture programme
The number stays.
The questions change.
Deriving the score is only the first defence of it. Return with evidence from the bench to question the estimate, test the instrument and justify the report.
Run the bench
Four returns to the bench
Weeks 02 / 05 / 08 / 11- Week 02Open the lecture
Formal lecture / Slides available
The Fréchet distance
The week 2 derivation delivered as a sequence rather than a page, one step of the chain per slide, ending on the bench scored by hand
- Week 05Open the lecture
Formal lecture / Instrument in the page
Question the estimate
Bias and noise are different problems. Return to the week 2 baseline, measure the bias on the bench, and take its price with it.
- Week 08Open the lecture
Formal lecture / Instrument in the page
Change the instrument
Two honest numbers from the same recordings can disagree about which candidate is worse. Put three instruments on one bench and find out why.
- Week 11Open the lecture
Formal lecture / Instrument in the page
Defend the report
A number is not evidence. Declare the protocol behind a claim, run it twelve times, and find out what it will carry.
Week 12
Before you submit / Course closing
The number is not the conclusion
A careful account of what a score supports is worth more than a confident ranking. A closing word before you finish the final report.