 Hello. My name is Philipp Panig and I'm teaching the class on probabilistic machine learning this term. Dear students, my name is Ulrike von Luxburg and I'm going to teach the class on statistical machine learning this term. What a weird situation this is. Up until a few weeks ago, I was looking forward to meet all of you down there, downtown in Tübingen in a beautiful old lecture hall to introduce you to the arcane secrets of uncertainty. Well, times have changed. But if anything, uncertainty has become even more important for all of us, it has become a regular part of our daily lives. Due to the Covid crisis, many of the things are going to take place in a different format than usually. In particular, the lectures are going to be taught in some video format. We are going to video record the lectures so you can watch them at home. This term, we will record every single lecture from various places and put it on this YouTube channel that you are currently watching. Tutorials will take place in some online fashion, probably via Zoom. Then once a week, probably on Tuesday, we will do a flipped classroom where you get to ask me questions. The first time we'll probably do that is on the 21st of April. And there might be many more other changes that we need to introduce and that we jointly need to figure out what is the best working mode for all of us during the semester. The most important thing you have to do now is to sign up for the course. What is the most important thing for you right now is that you need to register for this class. To register, please go to the web page of the class. And if you don't know where that is, google my name Ulrike von Luxburg. Go to teaching, click on statistical machine learning and there you are. And on this web page, there is going to be a link where you can register for this class in Ilias. I'm guessing there's going to be a link below that you can click on. Please do this registration preferred by April 15, but at latest by April 23. Please make sure to sign up ideally by April 15th, that's Wednesday next week. And that will make sure that you get all the updates in time. And I hope that we are all together going to enjoy this semester. It's going to be a new experience, but it might be fun. This is going to be a bit of an adventure for all of us. But I'm looking forward to working with you during this time. I hope that you will bear with us when there is going to be a few unavoidable snacks. Sooner or later there will be problems. And I'm looking forward hopefully to a point in term when we all get to meet each other in person again. And I'm looking forward to meeting all of you in some virtual way and maybe towards the end of the semester who knows also in a personal way. See you soon.