Spring 2024 Computer Science 458. 4/22/2024

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Logical Problem of the day

Rank the guest speakers.

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Discussion question: The Middle East Conflict

Rich Apostolik talked about the GFC: The Great Financial Crisis. It is said regarding the GFC that there were no empty seats on the bus of blame. The same might be said about the Middle East. You can go back thousands of years, or just after World War II when the British carved up the territory.

In 1968, Robert Kennedy was assasinated by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian American who was protesting the 1967 Arab Isreali war (the six day war) of a year earlier.

The normal impulse is to fix the blame, not fix the problem. I have opened a Discussion topic that invites you to use the VOTE goal-based decision framework to analyze the problem. That's it. Analyze the problem. The topic is open so everyone can see each other's posts. You get credit for posting. You may frame the problem broadly or narrowly. You can focus on one, two, or many actors. You may look at recent history or ancient history.

Speak your mind. There are no wrong answers.

Administrivia

  • I have office hours Mondays and Wednesdays from 2-3 pm, on zoom, id 459 434 2854. No office hours after this week.

    Guest Lecture: Luciano Floridi

    Yale News: Professor Floridi is now a chat bot.

    https://www.lucianofloridi.com/bot

    Guest Lecture Wednesday April 17th (via zoom) Alborz Geramifard, Meta

    Alborz invites you to apply for full time positions at Meta at meta careers. He said that it is too late for internships this year, but you could ping him around January for next year at alborzg@meta.com.

    He will be sending me links from his talk which I will share.

    Scruffy Redux

    The Kris Hammond Ted Talk video reminded me of Minsky's Society of Mind.
    What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle. —Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind, p. 308

    Assignments

    Assignments. The project and hw3 are also available. Note: do not use machine learning for hw3.

    Reminder: submit the project on the zoo using the submit process. We are NOT using gradescope for the project. You should copy your files to the zoo and then execute the following command: 

    /c/cs458/bin/submit 6 filename[s]
    That is, use assignment 6 for the final project.

    Group Projects

    Below is a list of group projects that have been submitted and approved. If your group project does not appear, let me know. I might have missed it.

    Each of these projects will give a presentation the week of April 22nd, either Monday the 22nd or Wednesday the 24th, as specified.

    Also, if you have a solo project, but would like to give a presentation, let me know.

    I do not expect the project to be completed at that time. The presentation, which should be 10 minutes or so, should explain the idea and your approach. If you have results, you may certainly share them.

      Monday April 22nd.
    1. Ann Zhang. Decision-making system based on TV tropes.
    2. Rohan Acharya and Sonny Nguyen. Enhanced Option Pricing with an Advanced Binomial Tree Model.
    3. CS 323 exemption: Tetsu Kurumisawa and Mina Bengi Aral. Risk Management System for Equity Portfolio.
    4. CS 323 examption: Aileen Siele, Daniel Metaferia, and Vimbisai Basvi. Housing Recommendation System with Explanatory Feedback.
    5. Jiayi Chen and Harper Qi. Music Recommendation System.
    6. Samuel Chen, Fiza Shakeel, and Rick Gao. Counterfactual Regret Minimization-based Indian Poker Optimization.
    7. Ron Cheng and Michelle Zheng. MiniTherapist: A customizable, rule based expert system as a therapy aid that responds in and takes input with natural language.
    8. Ananya Rajagopalan. An explainable machine-learning model that predicts gene expression levels from genomic variants .

      Wednesday April 24th.

    9. Sydney Scheller. 7 Wonders Game Move Recommendations .
    10. Francisco Almeida, Max Velasco, and João Bernardo Pachêco. Portfolio Risk Assessment: Creating A Python Tool for Value at Risk Calculation and Visualization.
    11. Sherrie Feng, Sean Lim, and Noah Dee. An itinerary planning application.
    12. CS 323 exemption: Sushant Kunwar, Jorge Torres, and Eric Lin. Emotion-Based Music Recommendation System.
    13. Ariel Melendez and Caroline Reiner. A case-based medical diagnosis assistant system.
    14. Hengguang Zhou, Haolan Zuo, and Yining Wang. Interpretable Graph-Based Stock Trading Decision System.
    15. CS 323 exmption: Nawal Naz Tareque and Denny Zhang. Rule Based Entertainment Recommendation System.
    16. Rudy Cordero. Automated Personal Counselor for Community College Students Exploring Further Education and Vocational Opportunities .
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