 Hello everyone and welcome to probabilistic machine learning in the summer term of 2021 a Year ago almost to the day. I stood on The roof of this building that I'm currently sitting in I can't do this today because it's snowing actually and back then I announced that I'd be teaching an Online version of this lecture course probabilistic machine learning This decision back then was forced upon us by the pandemic and I couldn't have imagined back then That one year later, I'd still be sitting here in this building in this office Announcing the second iteration of this course and yet Here we are now as much as I would have preferred to meet you all in person Down in town in an actual lecture hall twice a week I'm still really looking forward to Working with you and even if it's just in this online fashion over the course of this term to uncover and understand the Crucial role of uncertainty in the process of inference and learning and Here is how this is going to work in practice If you are a student at the University of Tobingen and you would like to participate in this lecture course Then please sign up on Elias You can find the link to the course in the description below Once you're signed up, you're going to get an invitation to a weekly flipped classroom meeting That will take place on Tuesdays from 10 to 12 In these flipped classroom meetings We're going to discuss every week the content of the two lectures that correspond to the content of that week as You can see in the playlist here You can already find all the videos from last year in Here on YouTube However, I recommend that you only watch the two videos that correspond to the current week over the course of term This is for two reasons the first of all, of course Otherwise you're going to get out of sync with what we discuss in the flipped classroom But also I am planning to update the content of some of the lectures in particular this pertains pertains to the Lectures from lecture 15 onwards. Those are the lectures that begin in the week of 14th of June Which may change quite a bit actually so if you're looking ahead you are not going to benefit from Corrections that I might make to the lecturers and in fact you'll get out of sync with the content of the actual lecture So you have to watch them twice at some point So this means I mean writing you now to start by watching lectures one and two and Then this is the crucial bit Write down questions that you want to ask me or your peers about the content of this lecture To ask those questions you can either Enter them on Ilias in a form that I will upload there or you can ask the questions in person during the flipped classroom Doing this actually preparing lectures is absolutely crucial to help you understand the content of the lectures And it's the one thing that actually makes this flipped classroom format work. So please make use of it Now as a final note to the rest of the world I know that there are also quite a lot of people who are not students at the University of Tübingen who are watching these lectures I'm really happy that you do. Thank you very much for your interest If you want to watch this lecture course in its new version for the summer of 2021 then You're of course invited to like watch the videos at your own pace I am afraid I cannot invite you or allow you into the flipped classrooms or nor share the exercises with you However, I do recommend that if you want to watch the whole content of the course then if you care about the content of lectures 15 and onwards maybe wait until after June 14th 2021 before you watch because they're going to be updates to those lectures If you're interested in the slides for these lectures, they can all be found on my web page And I'll put a link to them in the description below All right, but with that enough ramblings for me. Let's get started with the course I'm looking forward to seeing all local students in the flipped classroom soon And I'm once again grateful to everyone from outside of Tübingen who is watching this course