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=== Thursday, December 3 ===
=== Thursday, December 3 ===

Revision as of 20:37, 11 December 2009

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This is the site for 6.034 Artificial Intelligence, with Professor Patrick Winston.

Contents

News

Wednesday, December 9

There will be no recitations or mega-recitations this Thursday and Friday. In their place there will be final review sessions:

  • Part 1 review: Thursday 3-5pm
  • Part 2 review: Friday 1-3pm
  • Part 3 review: Friday 3-5pm
  • Part 4 review: Friday 5-7pm
  • Part 5 review: Saturday 1-3pm

These are in 32-141.

Thursday, December 3

Quizzes have been graded and will be returned in recitation, then tutorial, then only from PHW's office.

Breakpoints for Quiz 4:

Thorough understanding Adequate understanding
Problem 1 ≥ 42 ≥ 35
Problem 2 ≥ 41 ≥ 35
Overall ≥ 84 ≥ 71

One point for full disclosure on cover page

Wednesday, November 25

Lab 5 online testing still does not work --- we're in contact with the scripts team attempting a fix.

Lab 4 grades are still 0s for everyone. This will likely be resolved shortly after the Thanksgiving break.

Enjoy your holiday!

Saturday, November 14

New draft notes on boosting are now available via Reference material and playlist link. Also, a new version of the demonstration with improved GUI is available via Demonstrations link.

Tuesday, November 10

Since Monday tutorials were canceled due to the Quiz, Monday students should attend any of the regularly-scheduled Tuesday tutorials. The tutorial times and locations are posted on the website: Tutorials

Monday, November 9

Quizzes have been graded and will be returned in recitation, then tutorial, then only from PHW's office.

Breakpoints for Quiz 3:

Thorough understanding Adequate understanding
Problem 1 ≥ 43 ≥ 37
Problem 2 ≥ 33 ≥ 25
Overall ≥ 76 ≥ 62

Note that the corresponding portion of the final is likely to include a straightforward neural net question and a problem that requires an understanding of mutation and crossover.

Wednesday, October 21

Quizzes have been graded and will be returned in recitation, then tutorial, then only from PHW's office.

Breakpoints for Quiz 2:

Thorough understanding Adequate understanding
Problem 1 ≥ 45 ≥ 37
Problem 2 ≥ 45 ≥ 40
Overall ≥ 90 ≥ 77

Tuesday, October 20

The Quiz 2 tomorrow is in 10-250 and starts at 10am sharp. Open book, open notes, but no computers of any kind. It will cover Games and Constraint Satisfaction Problems.

Sunday, October 12

Due to there being no Tuesday schedule, there will be an extra tutorial on Tuesday.

It will be from 8-9pm in 32-124.

Thursday, October 8

Because of the confluence of a Monday holiday and family weekend in the same week, the schedule next week is highly unusual. As indicated on the calendar, there will be lectures on Tuesday and Friday. Also, there will be no megarecitation next week, because of insufficient accumulation of material to cover.

Lab 3 is out (short but difficult):

 http://ai6034.mit.edu/fall09/index.php?title=Lab_3

Resubmit lab 2 if you did not download a new tests.py on Saturday and resubmit with it already. Older submissions are invalid, and you're likely to have a zero on the lab, which you can check at https://ai6034.mit.edu:444/fall09/tester/

Thursday, October 1

Quizzes have been graded and will be returned in recitation, then tutorial, then only from PHW's office.

Breakpoints for Quiz 1:

Thorough understanding Adequate understanding
Problem 1 ≥ 43 ≥ 37
Problem 2 ≥ 46 ≥ 38
Overall ≥ 89 ≥ 75

September 29nd

The Quiz tomorrow is in 10-250 and starts at 10am sharp. Open book, open notes, but no computers of any kind.

September 22nd

In response to the large class size, we're very fortunate to be able to bring in Prof. Robert Berwick as a third recitation instructor, adding two sections. For now we'll rely on you to rebalance yourselves.

The eight recitations now offered are listed below. The first two Thursday recitations are new, and are likely to have fewer people at first, so you will get a more focused experience. Please attend whichever one best fits your schedule.

Thursdays 11am 36-156
Thursdays noon 36-156
Thursdays  1pm 24-407
Thursdays  2pm 24-407
Thursdays  3pm 24-407
Fridays    1pm 26-210
Fridays    2pm 26-210
Fridays    3pm 26-210

September 15th

There is a new tester.py which lets you just run that module to do local tests, and if those succeed, to submit, all in one go. If you're running up against the clock, remember to submit using either the command line or test_online() even if you don't pass the local tests though! Partial credit is better than none.

A short conversation about Mutation

September 14th

Note the addition of of a calendar, with locked down Quiz dates, along with a table of reference materials. These will be integrated, once we figure out how.

September 11th

Our email list is incomplete and does not include, for example, late-registering students, so if you have not received email from us, please email the Staff and be sure to monitor our web page for announcements during the coming week.

Professor Teller's subject, 6.142, has moved to an 11am start time to accommodate students who want to take both 6.142 and 6.034.

We will have either tutorials or open office hours on Monday, depending on whether the registrar can get rooms for us by then. The locations will be announced during lecture. Preliminary tutorial assignments are now available: Tutorials

The notes from today are available: [1] [2] [3]

September 10th

Lab 0 is now available.

Please do bring a laptop to the mega-recitation tomorrow, if you have one.

Download Python 2.6 from python.org -- do not download 3.1, as it will be incompatible with some of the software we hand out. This download also includes the IDLE program, which we will demonstrate tomorrow.

September 9th

Give us your tutorial availability please.

There will be no regular recitations this week. There is a mega-recitation, however.

The slides (missing from lecture today) are now available.


Mega-recitations

Mega-recitations occur on Fridays at 10 AM in 10-250, the same time slot that is occupied by lectures on Mondays and Wednesdays.

The first mega-recitation, on Friday, September 11th, will be a refresher on the Python programming language.

Times and places of recitations and tutorials

Please fill out the Tutorial scheduling form. You will learn which tutorial you are in by email.

Unexpectedly, the registrar supplied us with recitation time slots we can live with, so attend at the time and place you were assigned.


Python

The official language of 6.034 is Python for a variety of reasons having little to do with the strengths and weaknesses of the language. We expect a focused weekend with any of the many Python books would be adequate preparation. See, for example, the Amazon list.

Alternatively, you can follow one of the suggestions of Rob Speer, head 6.034 TA in 2008:

  • Dive into Python is a well-recommended book that is available online. It's written for experienced programmers who just don't know Python yet. It's meant to quickly take what you already know about other languages and explain how Python does them.
  • At the other end of the spectrum, the text that was used in 6.00 has been expanded into one called Think Python. It's online. It is targeted at people who have not programmed much or at all.
  • In the middle is the O'Reilly book Learning Python. MIT has a subscription to O'Reilly, so anyone with an MIT IP address can read the book online.
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