Spring 2022 Computer Science 458

Video of the Day

Spring Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

Lecture: 4/13/2022

Administrivia

Recorded lectures are in the Canvas media library,

Assignments hw3 is due Wednesday April 20th.

Response to student question:
prefers() focuses on the agents goals and an explicit set of devices.
recommend() is like a salesperson at Best Buy who can recommend goals and devices previously unknown to the agent.

Project proposals are due Monday April 11th. In the final week of class, students will be invited to present their proposals in class, earning an additional 5 points. Group projects will be required to give a presentation in class on Monday April 25th. (We will have a guest speaker on our final class, Wednesday April 27th. There will be a lottery for dinner at Mory's. Attendance is required for both Monday and Wednesday classes.)

Send me an email if you as an individual would like to make a class presentation to earn 5 points.

Group projects:

Phoebe Cao and Yan Wen: Monte Carlo Simulation in Option Pricing
Ruopeng Wang, Chengqian Jin, and Miaoyu Yang: Portfolio Risk Management System.
Jialiang Qu, Yifan Liu, and Zihan Tang: Movie Recommendation System
Yuran Zhu, Haiaho Sun, and Jingyu Yao: Prediction of Used Car Prices using machine learning
Keven Hu and Jinshu Yang: Movie Recommendation System using Kaggle MovieLens dataset.

A number of you have proposed rewriting Norvig's Common LISP programs into Python. I wrote a book: Object Oriented Common LISP. Let me know if you want to borrow a copy. I have a few I can lend. Also I discovered that there is a github repository of solutions to the book's exercises. Who knew?

Azimov's Three Laws of Robotics

Finance Update

Schwab Market Commentary April 4, 2022. Note the asset class monthly quilt exhibit.

Note: I had to remove the Merrill Lynch reports I posted earlier due to copyright restrictions. The Schwab document is in the clear.

Goal-based Systems

See GBDMgoals.html Chapter 3: Goals.

See Goals.html Agents.

See GBDMResources.html Chapter 4: Resources. Note: discussion of car purchase in section 4.5 is relevant to hw 3 for computer purchase.

See GBDMRelationships.html Chapter 5: Relationships.

Case-based Systems

Case-Based Reasoning: A Research Paradigm Slade, 1990.

CBR.html

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