CSE 312b Winter 2018
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January
MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday
01 02 03
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
12:00-12:50 OH (Ariel)
5th floor breakout
04
Section
Answer Schnapsen questions; Product Rule
Worksheet, Answers
16:00-16:50 OH (James)
5th floor breakout
05
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Counting: permutations
Reading: Safety First (Schnapsen analysis)
Trick mechanics, Notes
10:30-11:20 OH (Johnny)
5th floor breakout
14:30-15:20 OH (Darin)
5th floor breakout
15:30-17:30 Schnapsen!
MGH 241
08
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Counting: combinations, complementing
Notes
11:00-12:00 OH (Martin)
5th floor breakout
16:30-17:20 OH (Satvik)
5th floor breakout
09
14:30-15:20 OH (Belinda)
5th floor breakout
10
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Counting: Inclusion-exclusion, pigeonhole principle; intro to probability
Reading: BT 1.3
Notes
12:00-12:50 OH (Ariel)
5th floor breakout
11
Section
Counting, intro to probability
Worksheet, Answers
16:00-16:50 OH (James)
5th floor breakout
12
HW2 out
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Equally likely outcomes
Notes, HW2 LaTeX source
10:30-11:20 OH (Johnny)
5th floor breakout
14:30-15:20 OH (Darin)
5th floor breakout
15:30-17:30 Schnapsen!
MGH 241
22:00 HW1 due
15
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
16
14:30-15:20 OH (Belinda)
5th floor breakout
17
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Conditional probability, Law of Total Probability
Reading: BT 1.5
Notes
12:00-12:50 OH (Ariel)
5th floor breakout
18
Section
Conditional probability
Worksheet, Answers
16:00-16:50 OH (James)
5th floor breakout
19
HW3 out
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Bayes' Theorem
Reading: BT 1.4
Notes, HW3 LaTeX source
10:30-11:20 OH (Johnny)
5th floor breakout
14:30-15:20 OH (Darin)
5th floor breakout
15:30-17:30 Schnapsen!
CSE 503
22:00 HW2 due
22
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Independent events
Reading: BT 2.1-2.3
Notes
11:00-12:00 OH (Martin)
5th floor breakout
16:30-17:20 OH (Satvik)
5th floor breakout
23
14:30-15:20 OH (Belinda)
5th floor breakout
24
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
12:00-12:50 OH (Ariel)
5th floor breakout
25
Section
Random variables
Random variable review, Worksheet, Answers
16:00-16:50 OH (James)
5th floor breakout
26
HW4 out
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Naive Bayes classifier
Reading: Naive Bayes notes
Slides (PDF, PPTX), Notes, HW4 LaTeX source
10:30-11:20 OH (Johnny)
5th floor breakout
14:30-15:20 OH (Darin)
5th floor breakout
15:30-17:30 Schnapsen!
CSE 503
22:00 HW3 due
29
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Linearity of expectation
Reading: BT 2.7
Notes
11:00-12:00 OH (Martin)
5th floor breakout
16:30-17:20 OH (Satvik)
5th floor breakout
30
14:30-15:20 OH (Belinda)
5th floor breakout
31
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Variance
Notes
12:00-12:50 OH (Ariel)
5th floor breakout
01
Section
Linearity of expectation, midterm review
Midterm advice, Worksheet, Answers, Practice Midterm 1, Answers, Practice Midterm 2, Answers
16:00-16:50 OH (James)
5th floor breakout
02
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Independent random variables; uniform, Bernoulli, and binomial distributions
Notes
10:30-11:20 OH (Johnny)
5th floor breakout
14:30-15:20 OH (Darin)
5th floor breakout
15:30-17:30 Schnapsen!
CSE 503

February
MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday
05
HW5 out
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Error-correcting codes, Poisson distribution
Reading: BT 3.1-3.2
Slide pack 6 slides 67-80, general Hamming code, HW5 LaTeX source
11:00-12:00 OH (Martin)
5th floor breakout
16:30-17:20 OH (Satvik)
5th floor breakout
22:00 HW4 due
06
14:30-15:20 OH (Belinda)
5th floor breakout
07
09:30-10:20 Midterm exam
THO 101
12:00-12:50 OH (Ariel)
5th floor breakout
08
Section
Variance; Poisson random variables
Worksheet, Answers
16:00-16:50 OH (James)
5th floor breakout
09
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Continuous random variables; uniform distribution
Reading: BT 3.3
Notes
10:30-11:20 OH (Johnny)
5th floor breakout
14:30-15:20 OH (Darin)
5th floor breakout
15:30-17:30 Schnapsen!
CSE 503
12
HW6 out
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Exponential distributions
Reading: BT 7.4
Notes, HW6 LaTeX source
11:00-12:00 OH (Martin)
5th floor breakout
16:30-17:20 OH (Satvik)
5th floor breakout
22:00 HW5 due
13
14:30-15:20 OH (Belinda)
5th floor breakout
14
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Normal distribution, Central Limit Theorem
Slide pack 7, slides 20-33, Demo
12:00-12:50 OH (Ariel)
5th floor breakout
15
Section
Continuous random variables
Worksheet, Answers
16:00-16:50 OH (James)
5th floor breakout
16
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
10:30-11:20 OH (Johnny)
5th floor breakout
14:30-15:20 OH (Darin)
5th floor breakout
15:30-17:30 Schnapsen!
CSE 503
19
Presidents Day
20
14:30-15:20 OH (Belinda)
5th floor breakout
21
HW7 out
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Central Limit Theorem example, Markov inequality
Reading: BT 7.2, 7.5
Notes, HW7 LaTeX source
10:45-11:45 OH (Martin)
5th floor breakout
12:00-12:50 OH (Ariel)
5th floor breakout
22:00 HW6 due
22
Section
Central limit theorem
Worksheet, Answers, Detailed CLT solution, CLT summary
16:00-16:50 OH (James)
5th floor breakout
23
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Chebyshev and Chernoff inequalities, law of large numbers
Reading: Maximum likelihood estimators
Notes
10:30-11:20 OH (Johnny)
5th floor breakout
14:30-15:20 OH (Darin)
5th floor breakout
15:30-17:30 Schnapsen!
CSE 503
26
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Maximum likelihood estimators
Reading: Bias and confidence intervals
Notes
11:00-12:00 OH (Martin)
5th floor breakout
16:30-17:20 OH (Satvik)
5th floor breakout
27
14:30-15:20 OH (Belinda)
5th floor breakout
28
HW8 out
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Maximum likelihood estimators for normal distribution; bias
Notes, HW8 LaTeX source
12:00-12:50 OH (Ariel)
5th floor breakout
22:00 HW7 due
01
Section
Maximum likelihood estimators
Worksheet, Answers
16:00-16:50 OH (James)
5th floor breakout
02
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Confidence intervals
Notes
10:30-11:20 OH (Johnny)
5th floor breakout
14:30-15:20 OH (Darin)
5th floor breakout
15:30-17:30 Schnapsen!
CSE 503

March
MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday
05
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Probabilistic algorithms: Quicksort, matrix multiplication
Freivalds' algorithm, Notes
11:00-12:00 OH (Martin)
5th floor breakout
16:30-17:20 OH (Satvik)
5th floor breakout
06
14:30-15:20 OH (Belinda)
5th floor breakout
07
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
Probabilistic minimum cut algorithm
Notes
12:00-12:50 OH (Ariel)
5th floor breakout
22:00 HW8 due
08
Section
Final exam review
Final advice, Worksheet, Answers, Practice Final, Answers
16:00-16:50 OH (James)
5th floor breakout
09
09:30-10:20 Lecture
THO 101
HW8 solutions, review, wrap-up
Notes
10:30-11:20 OH (Johnny)
5th floor breakout
14:30-15:20 OH (Darin)
5th floor breakout
15:30-17:30 Schnapsen!
CSE 503
12
16:00-17:00 OH (Satvik)
5th floor breakout
13
12:00-13:00 OH (Darin)
CSE 007
14
08:30-10:20 Final exam
THO 101
15 16