CS 201 - Spring 2025. 4/7/2025.

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Video of the Day

Spring Sonata, Beethoven. Anne-Sophie Mutter and Lambert Orkis.

Who has more Grammy Awards: Anne-Sophie Mutter or my daughter's high school piano teacher's husband ?

I hereby solicit suggestions for the video of the day. Please email me your ideas with explanations. Selected entries will win 5 homework points. If your video is played at the beginning of class, you must also briefly explain something about the video and something about yourself - in person.

Logical Problem of the day

John has 5 children. He states that half of them are boys. Please explain.

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Canvas Quiz of the Day (need daily password)

Most days, there will be a simple canvas quiz related to the lecture. You need a password to activate the quiz, which I will provide in class. These quizzes will count toward your class participation grade. The quiz is available only during class.

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Lecture 30: Computer Architecture.

  • I have office hours Wednesdays from 4-6 pm, on zoom, id 459 434 2854.

  • I am available for lunch on Mondays at 1 pm in Morse.

  • ULA office hours are found at https://csofficehours.org/CS201/schedule. Sign up via the queue.

  • Homework assignments: [Assignments]. hw7 is now available.

    AI in the News

  • Meta Unveils Llama 4: The Next Generation of AI Models Substack, April 5, 2025. 17 billion parameters and 288 billion parameters. Mixture of experts: MoE. Used online reinforcement learning.
  • OpenAI’s Ghibli Moment Spins Out of Control, Bloomberg, April 4, 2025.
  • Google Is Searching for an Answer to ChatGPT, Bloomberg, March 24, 2025.

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  • Access to Economist (Economist.com)
  • Access to Financial Times
  • Access to Wall Street Journal from Yale.
  • Q and AI Bloomberg.
  • Access to Bloomberg.com from Yale.

    Announcements

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    Lecture: Computer Architecture.

    Architecture.html (jupyter) store indirect

    Review of hw6 - do-load.

    Getting to know UNIX

    UNIX Introduction Principle 5.
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