Final Written Assessment
A cumulative multiple-choice final spanning weeks 1–8: algebra and notation, functions, linear algebra, calculus, optimization, and NumPy shape-reasoning. A mix of calculation, interpretation, and shape questions.
- 1.
For , which logarithm identity is correct?
- 2.
Evaluate the sum .
- 3.
What is the domain of ?
- 4.
The sigmoid has range:
- 5.
Compute the dot product .
- 6.
Two nonzero vectors are orthogonal. Their cosine similarity is:
- 7.
If is and is , what is the shape of ?
- 8.
The system with has infinitely many solutions when:
- 9.
A covariance matrix has eigenvalues . Keeping the top principal component retains what fraction of the variance?
- 10.
equals:
- 11.
Differentiate .
- 12.
For , the gradient is:
- 13.
Gradient descent updates the parameters by:
- 14.
In NumPy, adding an array of shape to one of shape broadcasts to what shape?