Professor

Violet Peng

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Easiness 2.0/ 5
Clarity 2.4/ 5
Workload 2.7/ 5
Helpfulness 2.5/ 5
Most Helpful Review
Winter 2024 - There are things that can be improved, but this is a GREAT class to take! The previous reviews all express frustration about the midterm our quarter, which I understand as it was insanely and unrealistically difficult. However, the teaching team is very open to feedback and consistently encouraged us to share our thoughts. After it became obvious that the whole class felt the midterm was unfair, they adjusted the grading scheme by making a free-response question extra credit, relaxing the grading rubric, AND we all received a raw 5% boost on the midterm since most of the class filled out a mid-quarter feedback form. The mean after these adjustments was about 83.5% which I feel like is very standard. The final was much easier - they almost gave us too much time to do it, and we still received a raw 3% boost on the final since most of the class filled out the final course evaluation. I agree that there were some disorganized moments as well, but I think the thing that makes a teaching team great is when they are open to feedback, and that most definitely showed with Professor Peng. We even spent the lecture after the midterm as an open forum for people to discuss their thoughts and feelings about the midterm. I think many professors wouldn't try so hard to understand their students, so I really appreciate Professor Peng. Besides that, the class really was fun! The topics were interesting, and NLP is super hot right now so it was nice to be able to learn about them from people doing research in that space. I felt that Professor Peng and the TAs were really knowledgeable about the topics and they were always willing to answer questions during lecture or discussion to ensure we understood the concepts. I also don't think the workload was too bad at all. We only had 3 homeworks throughout the quarter, each of which could be finished in several hours. The group project did feel a bit disconnected from the rest of everything but I actually found it very interesting as it allowed us to see more of the real-world applications and experiment with LLMs and prompting. Plus, it was graded very leniently so even if you didn't have time to experiment too much, you could still get full score. I would HIGHLY recommend taking this class. Just look at reviews from previous quarters, as I think the bad reviews from Winter 2024 are mostly just a reflection of students' frustration about the midterm.
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