Spring 2023 Computer Science 458


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  • Starting this week, I will have office hours Mondays and Wednesdays from 2 to 3pm, NOT on Friday, on zoom, id 459 434 2854.

    Lecture: 2/15/2023

    Assignments

    You can begin work on hw 2 which deals with finance. See Ed Discussion note by Sam regarding alternative to yfinance.

  • Wednesday February 15th: Will Goetzmann, Yale School of Management.
    William N. Goetzmann is the Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies and Faculty Director of the International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management. He is an expert on a diverse range of investments. Professor Goetzmann’s past work includes studies of stock market predictability, hedge funds and survival biases in performance measurement. His current research focuses on alternative investing, factor investing, behavioral finance and the art market.

    Professor Goetzmann has written and co-authored a number of books, including Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis (Wiley, 2014), The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets (Oxford, 2005), The Great Mirror of Folly: Finance, Culture and the Crash of 1720 (Yale, 2013) and most recently, Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible (Princeton, 2016). He teaches portfolio management, alternative investments, real estate and financial history at the Yale School of Management.

    Lecture: William Goetzmann

    Arbitrage

    Finance: A Quick Introduction

    See yfinance.html

    Additional finance resources:
    We at yale have a license for Mathematica which has a lot of financial data baked in including blockchain:

  • https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FinancialData.html
  • https://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/FinancialAndEconomicData.html

  • Citigroup and 92nd Street Y
  • The Rejection by Woody Allen.

    AI and Intentionality: The Chinese Room

    See Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence John Searle, talk at Google. See 9 minutes in for discussion of cognitive science and Sloan talks at Yale.

    See Minds, brains, and programs John R. Searle, The Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1980).

    The Yale AI Project: Cognitive Modelling

    See The Yale Artificial Intelligence Project: A Brief History Stephen Slade, AI Magazine, 1987.

    See Conceptual Dependency and Its Descendants Steven Lytinen, 1992.

    The Realm of Decisions

    We assume that you have relationships with a variety of people: family, friends, colleagues, classmates, etc. Also discuss who among them will be affected by your choice, either positively or negatively. Discuss you decision process. Use the Discussions section of canvas (not Ed Discussion).


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