CSE143/CSE143X Autumn 2020 Honors Section

This quarter we are reading The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (second edition) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

Students must attend seven of the planned eight sections to receive credit for the seminar.

Meeting time

Wed 4:30-6:20 via zoom (email Stuart if you need the link)

Relevant Links

We discussed how to make a Finite State Machine and a Turing Machine. I used a program called JFLAP to build these machines:

Reading assignments

10/7 no reading
10/14 Prologue-Chapter 4
10/21 Chapters 5-7
10/28 Chapters 8-10
11/4 Chapters 11-14
11/11 holiday, no meeting
11/18 Chapters 15-17
11/25 no meeting
12/2 Chapters 18-IV
12/9 Chapters V-IX

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