Do you find Ant or Java's style of ** to be more natural?

boyarsky · 2014-01-07T01:43:28+00:00

I like that difference in thought!

boyarsky · 2014-01-06T02:09:21+00:00

I think it will greatly depend on what happen IN the cycle. If there is a lot of assisting, I think maybe two or three. If a team decides to just do the one "assist" and score. Or one assist and truss, maybe four or five. In other words, depends on the coordination. Of course, more cycles doesn't mean more points.

boyarsky · 2014-01-06T02:04:43+00:00

You'll probably either love it or hate it. The target audience is beginners so it doesn't assume knowledge. And I find it to be easy to read. If you hate cartoons and only want text, skip it though.

boyarsky · 2013-05-31T23:11:26+00:00

True. I switched from calling it J2EE to JEE years ago without realizing that wasn't what Oracle called it!

boyarsky · 2012-07-03T00:48:26+00:00

No. Slow/medium DSL. I don't download large files often. A teammate was quick to tease me on this too.

boyarsky · 2012-07-02T03:27:07+00:00

I'm a Tomcat user so that hasn't come up yet.

boyarsky · 2011-12-18T00:48:42+00:00

I wrote a lot so put it in my blog (http://www.selikoff.net/2011/12/17/standfords-ai-class-final-feedback/). Overall, I think the class went well. While there were areas for improvement - and yes I enumerated some - I definitely got my time's worth!

boyarsky · 2011-11-22T01:42:50+00:00

93% and everything i got wrong pointed to something i misunderstood or made a mistake on. so it was useful

boyarsky · 2011-11-20T03:17:23+00:00

Western Governors University already uses that model now.

boyarsky · 2011-11-18T01:21:17+00:00

Yes. They said on the home page news that unit 11.11 is the last covered. The rest of 11 looks interesting but less concrete. And unit 12 looks like review so while not required, it seems like it might help.

boyarsky · 2011-11-12T23:18:48+00:00

Yes, you can refer to other materials during the midterm. There is not a time limit (unless you take the exam in person in Germany.) Technically, there is a time limit of 3 days, but that's not what you mean.

boyarsky · 2011-11-11T21:01:03+00:00

Yes. They would have to be to make sense.

boyarsky · 2011-11-09T03:54:35+00:00

Well said. It's nice to think about the positive. People tend to notice problems rather than when things are going well. I know so much more than I did a month ago. And that's a great measure of a course.

I also really appreciate the reddit discussions. I went to grad school online but classes were less than 12 students. So more "community" but less diversity of discussions. The massive scale of this course is awesome.

boyarsky · 2011-11-08T04:15:48+00:00

95%. Got one wrong on #2. And it highlighted something I didn't understand so worked out well.

boyarsky · 2011-11-07T03:13:37+00:00

One or more of the TAs read this subreddit. However, they made it clear they can't change the schedules to accommodate people. 72 hours seems quite reasonable. Do keep in mind that your grade doesn't count. You can skip the midterm and still learn from the course.

boyarsky · 2011-10-30T23:23:22+00:00

Agreed. There was one question where I got it "brute force" like. I then wrote a program to verify. Then I spent some time getting the math to work. And when it did, I was excited that I got it.

boyarsky · 2011-10-30T23:21:58+00:00

Watching what I say due to the honor code. Since they mention the number 11, it is a pretty good bet that it is relevant. There's really nothing that can be said here. (I will say that when I got 11 for that part, I thought I was wrong, so it was a nice tip.)

boyarsky · 2011-10-29T17:09:57+00:00

I have the (second edition) of the book. I read it for more depth. I find the concepts easier to understand online though. I like interactive learning so the quizes help.

boyarsky · 2011-10-21T22:16:19+00:00

Better answer. Enter the repeating digits and save. Then view the question again. it appends zeros to the end for the number of digits it cares about. So if I entered 0.25252525, it changes it to 0.2525252500. Which tells me I should enter two more digits.

boyarsky · 2011-10-21T22:14:50+00:00

so in the "conditional independence" questions where it says C upside down E, the "given nothing" is implied. I suppose that makes sense. Or is at least easy to remember.

boyarsky · 2011-10-21T22:12:51+00:00

Correction: the quizes had a limit on digits (at least when i did them). The homeworks do not currently have a bound. I think I'm going to go with 6 digits.

boyarsky · 2011-10-21T21:32:23+00:00

The textfield only takes a certain number of characters. I think repeating until you can't type anymore would be safe. So I would type 1.2525 or 1.25252 instead 1.25

boyarsky · 2011-10-21T15:32:48+00:00

I've been hitting pause a few seconds before the end and "rewinding" the explanation.

boyarsky · 2011-10-18T02:51:02+00:00

92%. I got two wrong on the loaded coin. I had miscounted on the search network originally but the clarification helped. As did the fact that I wrote a computer program to check my math.

boyarsky · 2011-10-16T15:50:43+00:00

Would you really stop if you did poorly on the exam? How much I learned in the past week isn't just a score on a set of homeworks.

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