Fall 2015 Computer Science 458 11/09/15

Announcements

Final projects. You should post your final project proposal to classes v2 in the assignments folder. We will review for approval.
Office hours. Ronghui Gu is holding office hours at 305 AKW.
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Wednesday 2-4 pm.
Thursday 7-9 pm.
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Kun Run has office hours at 203 AWK.
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Monday 7-9 pm
Friday 10am - 12pm
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Today's Guest Speaker is Jon Feldman from Google. Here are some relevant papers.
- Budget Optimization in Search-Based Advertising Auctions
- Multiplicative Bidding in Online Advertising
There will be dinner at Mory's afterwards. Here are the students and alternates.
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9 Alexandra Zakrzewska
2 Sean Liu
12 Krishnan Srinivasan
10 William Bailey
8 Keshan Liu

Alternates:
1 Udit Jain
13 Michael Byrnes
15 Donghoon Lee
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Saw this on a risk management site: R vs Python – a Comparison, and Awesome Books (Free PDFs!) to Learn these Languages

Feedback

I received the following from Dean Holloway:

With midterm approaching, I encourage you to consider asking students in your classes for their anonymous feedback. Students can often suggest small adjustments that have a significant effect on teaching and learning, and asking for these suggestions is simple and confidential. It is also optional.
The tool to use, "Midterm Feedback," is now active in every class's Classes*v2 site, and you can find more information about using it here. The tool provides a text box where students can reply to questions you distribute in class or by email. The results are only viewable by you as instructor. Areas of feedback might include students' learning experience or general suggestions for improvements. If you'd like to see some sample questions, click here.

I invite you to use this method to comment on the course. Questions you might address include:

What helps your learning in this course?
What hinders your learning in this course?
What suggestions do you have for improvement?
Comment on the guest speakers.

Mid Term Exam

Feedback on midterm: why R and Python questions?

hw3: Algorithmic Trading: Momentum Strategy

See hw3. Note: a couple of changes to the specification, per piazza discussion.

Feedback issue: changing specifications, ambiguity, lack of test suites, i.e., not like 323. Slade's rationale follows the story of the drunk and the lamppost. I will explain.

Discussion

See R package: stockPortfolio
Example code
Modern Portfolio Theory Continue with Efficient Market Hypothesis.
Answers to exercies have been posted.
Cognitive Models of Decision Making: VOTE

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