CSE 312 Autumn 2017
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September
SundayMondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturday
24 25 26 27
HW1 out
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Overview; Counting: product rule
Reading: BT 1.1, 1.2, 1.6, Intro to Schnapsen, Rules of Schnapsen
Notes, HW1 LaTeX source
28
Section
Answer Schnapsen questions; Product Rule
Worksheet, Answers, Supplementary exercises, Answers
15:30-16:20 OH (James)
5th floor breakout
29
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Counting: permutations, combinations
Reading: Safety First (Schnapsen analysis)
Trick mechanics, Notes
15:30-17:30 Schnapsen!
MGH 241
30

October
SundayMondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturday
01 02
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Counting: combinations, complementing
Notes
11:00-12:00 OH (Martin)
5th floor breakout
16:00-16:50 OH (Alex)
5th floor breakout
03
13:30-14:20 OH (Joy)
5th floor breakout
14:30-15:20 OH (Darin)
5th floor breakout
04
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Counting: Inclusion-exclusion, pigeonhole principle; intro to probability
Reading: BT 1.3
Notes
14:30-15:20 OH (Satvik)
5th floor breakout
05
Section
Equiprobable outcomes
Worksheet, Answers, Supplementary exercises, Answers
15:30-16:20 OH (James)
5th floor breakout
06
HW2 out
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Equally likely outcomes
Notes, HW2 LaTeX source
11:30-12:20 OH (Varun)
5th floor breakout
15:30-17:30 Schnapsen!
MGH 241
22:00 HW1 due
07
08 09
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Conditional probability, Law of Total Probability
Reading: BT 1.5
Notes
11:00-12:00 OH (Martin)
5th floor breakout
16:00-16:50 OH (Alex)
5th floor breakout
10
13:30-14:20 OH (Joy)
5th floor breakout
14:30-15:20 OH (Darin)
5th floor breakout
11
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Bayes' Theorem
Reading: BT 1.4
Notes
14:30-15:20 OH (Satvik)
5th floor breakout
12
Section
Conditional probability
Worksheet, Answers, Supplementary exercises, Answers
15:30-16:20 OH (James)
5th floor breakout
13
HW3 out
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Independent events
Reading: BT 2.1-2.3
Notes, HW3 LaTeX source
11:30-12:20 OH (Varun)
5th floor breakout
15:30-17:30 Schnapsen!
CSE 503
22:00 HW2 due
14
15 16
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Applications of independence
Notes
11:00-12:00 OH (Martin)
5th floor breakout
16:00-16:50 OH (Alex)
5th floor breakout
17
13:30-14:20 OH (Joy)
5th floor breakout
14:30-15:20 OH (Darin)
5th floor breakout
18
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Naive Bayes classifier
Reading: Naive Bayes notes
Slides (PDF, PPTX), Notes
14:30-15:20 OH (Satvik)
5th floor breakout
19
Section
Naive Bayes, random variables
Random variable review, Worksheet, Answers, Supplementary exercises, Answers
15:30-16:20 OH (James)
5th floor breakout
20
HW4 out
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Random variables, expectation, geometric random variable
Reading: BT 2.4, Expected Game Points, last year's exercise
Notes, HW4 LaTeX source
11:30-12:20 OH (Varun)
5th floor breakout
15:30-17:30 Schnapsen!
CSE 503
22:00 HW3 due
21
22 23
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Linearity of expectation
Reading: BT 2.7
Notes
11:00-12:00 OH (Martin)
5th floor breakout
17:00-17:50 OH (Alex)
5th floor breakout
24
13:30-14:20 OH (Joy)
5th floor breakout
25
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Variance
Notes
13:30-14:20 OH (Darin)
5th floor breakout
14:30-15:20 OH (Satvik)
5th floor breakout
26
Section
Linearity of expectation
Last week's worksheets
15:30-16:20 OH (James)
5th floor breakout
27
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Independent random variables
Notes
11:30-12:20 OH (Varun)
5th floor breakout
15:30-17:30 Schnapsen!
CSE 503
28
29 30
HW5 out
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Uniform, Bernoulli, and binomial distributions
Notes, HW5 LaTeX source
11:00-12:00 OH (Martin)
5th floor breakout
16:00-16:50 OH (Alex)
5th floor breakout
22:00 HW4 due
31
13:30-14:20 OH (Joy)
5th floor breakout
14:30-15:20 OH (Darin)
5th floor breakout
01
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Error-correcting codes, Poisson distribution
Reading: BT 3.1-3.2
Slide pack 6, slides 67-80
14:30-15:20 OH (Satvik)
5th floor breakout
02
Section
Midterm review
Midterm advice, Worksheet, Answers, Practice Midterm 1, Answers, Practice Midterm 2, Answers
15:30-16:20 OH (James)
5th floor breakout
03
09:30-10:20 Midterm exam
THO 101
11:30-12:20 OH (Varun)
5th floor breakout
15:30-17:30 Schnapsen!
CSE 503
04

November
SundayMondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturday
05 06
HW6 out
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Continuous random variables
Reading: BT 3.3
Notes, HW6 LaTeX source
11:00-12:00 OH (Martin)
5th floor breakout
16:00-16:50 OH (Alex)
5th floor breakout
22:00 HW5 due
07
13:30-14:20 OH (Joy)
5th floor breakout
14:30-15:20 OH (Darin)
5th floor breakout
08
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Uniform, exponential distributions
Reading: BT 7.4
Notes
14:30-15:20 OH (Satvik)
5th floor breakout
09
Section
Poisson and continuous random variables
Worksheet, Answers, Supplementary exercises, Answers
15:30-16:20 OH (James)
5th floor breakout
10
Veterans Day
11
12 13
HW7 out
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Normal distribution, Central Limit Theorem
Slide pack 7, slides 20-33, Demo, HW7 LaTeX source
11:00-12:00 OH (Martin)
5th floor breakout
16:00-16:50 OH (Alex)
5th floor breakout
22:00 HW6 due
14
13:30-14:20 OH (Joy)
5th floor breakout
14:30-15:20 OH (Darin)
5th floor breakout
15
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Approximating binomial via Central Limit Theorem, continuity correction
Reading: BT 7.1
Slide pack 10, slides 30-42, Notes
14:30-15:20 OH (Satvik)
3rd floor breakout
16
Section
Central Limit Theorem
Worksheet, Answers, Supplementary exercises, Answers, Detailed CLT solution, CLT summary
15:30-16:20 OH (James)
5th floor breakout
17
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Central Limit Theorem example, Markov inequality
Reading: BT 7.2, 7.5
Notes
15:30-17:30 Schnapsen!
CSE 503
17:00-17:50 OH (Varun)
CSE 503
18
19 20
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Chebyshev, and Chernoff inequalities, Law of large numbers
Reading: Maximum likelihood estimators
Notes
11:00-12:00 OH (Martin)
5th floor breakout
16:00-16:50 OH (Alex)
5th floor breakout
21
13:30-14:20 OH (Joy)
5th floor breakout
14:30-15:20 OH (Darin)
5th floor breakout
22
HW8 out
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Maximum likelihood estimators
Reading: Bias and confidence intervals
Notes, HW8 LaTeX source
14:30-15:20 OH (Satvik)
5th floor breakout
22:00 HW7 due
23
Thanksgiving Day
24
Day after Thanksgiving
25
26 27
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Maximum likelihood estimators for normal distribution
Notes
11:00-12:00 OH (Martin)
5th floor breakout
16:00-16:50 OH (Alex)
5th floor breakout
28
13:30-14:20 OH (Joy)
5th floor breakout
29
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Bias, confidence intervals
Notes on bias, Notes on confidence intervals
13:30-14:20 OH (Darin)
5th floor breakout
14:30-15:20 OH (Satvik)
5th floor breakout
30
Section
Maximum Likelihood Estimators
Worksheet, Answers, Supplementary exercises, Answers
15:30-16:20 OH (James)
5th floor breakout
01
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Probabilistic algorithms: Quicksort, matrix multiplication
Freivalds' algorithm, Notes
10:30-11:20 OH (Varun)
5th floor breakout
15:30-17:30 Schnapsen!
CSE 503
02

December
SundayMondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturday
03
22:00 HW8 due
04
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Probabilistic minimum cut algorithm
Notes
11:00-12:00 OH (Martin)
5th floor breakout
16:00-16:50 OH (Alex)
5th floor breakout
05
13:30-14:20 OH (Joy)
5th floor breakout
14:30-15:20 OH (Darin)
5th floor breakout
06
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Min-cut algorithm conclusion
Notes
14:30-15:20 OH (Satvik)
5th floor breakout
07
Section
Final exam review
Worksheet, Answers, Practice Final, Answers
15:30-16:20 OH (James)
5th floor breakout
08
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
HW8 solutions, review, wrap-up
Notes
11:30-12:20 OH (Varun)
5th floor breakout
15:30-17:30 Schnapsen!
CSE 503
09
10 11 12 13
08:30-10:20 Final exam
THO 101
14 15 16