Spring 2023 Computer Science 458

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Video of the day

Appalachian Spring Aaron Copland.

Logical Problem of the Day

Where are you going for spring break?

https://pollev.com/slade You may also download the app to your phone. Use the "slade" poll id.

Administrivia

  • I have office hours Mondays and Wednesdays from 2 to 3pm, NOT on Friday, on zoom, id 459 434 2854. No office hours during break.

  • Last Monday's guest speakers were Joanne Lipman, a graduate of Yale and a lecturer at Yale, and her daughter, Rebecca Distler who is a graduate of Yale College and the School of Public Health, and the co-author of the linked Time Magazine article: "Schools Shouldn't Ban Access to ChatGPT" (January 11, 2023). Distler.pptx Rebecca Distler slides.

    Assignments

    Extension for hw2 to April 6th hw 2 which deals with finance. See Ed Discussion note by Sam regarding alternative to yfinance.

    You should try yahooquery which is alive and well. 

    >>> from yahooquery import Ticker
>>> a = Ticker('AAPL')
>>> dir(a)
>>> for p in dir(a):
  print (p)

    Also, the final project assignment is now available.

    Jobs

    At yesterday's CS Faculty meeting, we heard from Dr. Lucila Ohno-Machada of Yale's newly created Section for Biomedical Informatics and Data Science. Her colleagues want to hire CS and Data Science students.

    I have two full-time positions available:

    Data Scientist: https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/Home/Home?partnerid=25053&siteid=5248#jobDetails=1571640_5248

    Software engineer: https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/Home/Home?partnerid=25053&siteid=5248#jobDetails=1571641_5248

    I’m working on biomedical natural language processing (NLP) areas. I also hire graduate research assistants with CS background. Thanks

    Hua Xu, PhD, FACMI

    Lecture: 3/8/2023

    Goal-based Decision Making: VOTE

    See Amazon Talk.pdf Goal-based Decision-Making: An Interpersonal Model.

    See also Goal-based Decision Making. Stephen Slade. Hardcover: 304 pages. Publisher: Psychology Press (October 1, 1993). It is also available at the Yale Bookstore. Online copy through Yale library Online copy of thesis from which book was derived at Yale Library

    See Running VOTE on the zoo.

    Check out sarcastic-explanation

    Rule-based Expert Systems

    GPS: The General Problem Solver. Separated knowledge from process. Means-ends analysis. See Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming, Chapter 4.

    Expert systems - an overview. The rules help provide an explanation.

    See ExpertSystems.html MYCIN and friends.

    http://www.norvig.com/paip/README.html

    Truth maintenance Systems

    Case-based Systems

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

    CBR.html

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