1. 00:08 4th Feb 2012

    Tags: restaurantunclestochastichomeworksoftware engineeringcomputer centerAIOperating Systems

    Thursday Feb 2, 2012

    1pm went to vietnamese restaurant with uncle

    2pm did some stochastics homework

    4pm software engineering, more textbook stuff. Went over some of the characteristics/practices of extreme programming (with the professor having a very obvious dislike of it)

    5pm one-hour break, went to computer center, got an email from the school about various things relevant to programming and jobs/contests and stuff so spent some time looking those things up, and then worked on the java project, converting the CardImage class constructor to take a Card object as input instead of four different arguments

    6pm AI, more on A* search and variations (Iterative deepening A*, Memory-bounded A*), then things on heuristics: properties of a ‘good’ heuristic, ways to come up with admissible heuristics (relaxed problems. subproblems). Then local search strategies such as hill climbing / random-restart hill climbing

    8pm went home, worked on OS homework a bit while listening to npr interviews