Spring 2024 Computer Science 458. 4/24/2024

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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

  • No more office hours for me. You can reach me by email. You may also use Ed Discussions.

    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.

    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.

    Using submit to hand in the final project: Copy your files to your zoo account, e.g., using scp. Then ssh to a zoo machine. Make sure your code runs on the zoo. Then, from the directory containing your files, issue the following commands (with the names of your files, mutatis mutandis.) 

     % sudo register cs458
 % /c/cs458/bin/submit 6 project.py project.ipynb project.html README.txt
 % /c/cs458/bin/check 6
    submit copies your files to the SUBMIT directory. check tells you if they landed safely. See https://zoo.cs.yale.edu/classes/cs201/spring_2023/materials/submit-instructions.txt

    Zoo Submission Guide

    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. 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.
    7. Ananya Rajagopalan. An explainable machine-learning model that predicts gene expression levels from genomic variants .

      Wednesday April 24th.

    8. Sherrie Feng, Sean Lim, and Noah Dee. An itinerary planning application.
    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. CS 323 exemption: Sushant Kunwar, Jorge Torres, and Eric Lin. Emotion-Based Music Recommendation System.
    12. Ariel Melendez and Caroline Reiner. A case-based medical diagnosis assistant system.
    13. Hengguang Zhou, Haolan Zuo, and Yining Wang. Interpretable Graph-Based Stock Trading Decision System.
    14. CS 323 exmption: Nawal Naz Tareque and Denny Zhang. Rule Based Entertainment Recommendation System.
    15. Rudy Cordero. Automated Personal Counselor for Community College Students Exploring Further Education and Vocational Opportunities .
    16. Samuel Chen, Fiza Shakeel, and Rick Gao. Counterfactual Regret Minimization-based Indian Poker Optimization.

    Farewell and Gratitude

    From a commencement address by David Foster Wallace, 2005.
    Twenty years after my own graduation, I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.

    Valedictory Cavafy: Ithaka

    More appropriate: Billy Collins just in time for Mother's Day, May 12th. youtube

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