Honors Section

This quarter we are reading The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World by Pedro Domingos.

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

Meeting times

Relevant Links

Reading assignments

1/6 - 1/7 no reading
1/13 - 1/14 Prologue, Chapters 1-2
1/20 - 1/21 Chapters 3-4
1/27 - 1/28 Chapters 5-6
2/3 - 2/4 Chapters 7-8
2/10 - 2/11 Chapter 9
2/17 - 2/18 no reading
2/24 - 2/25 Chapter 10
3/2 - 3/3 no meeting
3/9 - 3/10 Epilogue

Automata

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