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Functional Program Design in Scala Week 1 Recap: Functions and Pattern Matching // We'd represent JSONs in Scala using case classes abstract class JSON case class JSeq(elems: List[JSON] extends JSON case class JObj(bindings: Map[String, JSON]) extends JSON case class JNum(num: double) extends JSON case class JStr(str: String) extends JSON cas...

Functional Programming Principles in Scala | Coursera Week 1 Main programming paradigms: imperative programming ⇒ instruction sequences for a Von Neumann computer (processor, memory, bus) Von Neumann bottleneck ⇒ conceptualizing data strictures word-by-word So, we need a higher level idea of programming in ord...

While Howard O’Hagan’s Tay John and John Marlyn’s Under the Ribs of Death differ vastly in their narrative structure, their cast, and their settings, both tell the coming of age stories of their protagonists as they attempt to contend with an existence between two worlds, yet belonging to neither. For Tay John and Sandor Hunyadi, this quest for ...

Professor Winfried Siemerling, Winter 2020 Module 1 modernity (1850s on) historical shift starting in Victorian/Confederation era industrialization + communications ⇒ faster pace of life attitude that life gets better (more knowledge, better life) over time through industrialization/knowledge (Lampman) art ackn...

Professor Alice Gao, Spring 2019 Lecture 1 Applications of AI: checkers chess go Jeopardy Topics in this course: Search: Heuristic Supervised Learning Reasoning under uncertainty Learning under uncertainty Decision making under uncertainty Describe the four definitions of AI. Explain why we will pursue one over the o...

Professor Stephen Fernandez, Spring 2019 June 5th selfie: photographic object that transmits human feeling practice/gesture with meaning relative to the community that it’s shared in e.g. likes, comments, shares although selfies are taken with our consent, they are distributed to the digital superpublic, where it...

These notes are incomplete and only cover pre-midterm content. Lecture 2 Lecture inductive learning: given a training set of examples of the form $(x, f(x))$, return a function $h$ that approximates $f$ deductive learning: given the rule + practice exercises, deduce $h$, inverse of inductive learning 2 types of problems Clas...

Overview of Data Management data: formalized representation of information about some entity (e.g. a person) History of Data Management Magnetic tapes: Every program only uses 1 tape at a time, so programs cannot manage the same data at the same time. Data set 1, 2, and 3 are duplicates. File management: Multiple programs ca...