The second week of the AI Class was full of Probability Theory. First, we were introduced to Bayes Theorem and Bayes Rule. I had not seen this stuff before so I used the probability videos on Khan Academy to review the basics. Bayes Theorem is straightforward once you understand the formula and the difference between [...]
There was a question on Peg Solitaire on the first homework for Stanford’s AI Class. It looked like an interesting puzzle so I searched Ebay for one. Today, I received this fully observable, deterministic, discrete, and non-adversarial puzzle in the mail. It has a wooden base and metal pegs. Apparently, it was made in the [...]
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) offers a great introduction to computer science that uses the Python programming language. The class is called 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming and it’s part of MIT’s OpenCourseWare–a selection of free and open educational materials. Video lectures, homework assignments, and exams are all available at it’s website. [...]
The first week of the Introduction to Artificial Intelligence course has passed and I have learned a lot. This week was mostly about artificial intelligence terminology and searching trees and graphs. I learned about Breadth First Search, Depth First Search, Uniform Cost Search, and A* Search. Very interesting stuff, a lot more interesting than I [...]