Nov 8
asides
naive bayes homework
Discuss your work
upcoming schedule
term project proposal due next week
- class presentations Thu Dec 1
- choice of:
- machine learning project (i.e. neural net, clustering, etc)
- agent using first order logic
- agent using neural net
- ai related topic not covered yet ; confirm with me first
- please do something different than your 1st project
decision trees
mention briefly; assign one problem : 18.6 in AIMA 3rd
neural nets
homework:
- 18.19 AIMA 3rd: neural net that computes XOR
- investigate any neural net package, look into one of its tutorials or demos; come to class ready to explain it.
sources
notes
Huge area of AI research ... but limited payoff to date.
Motivation from brains:
- 10**11 neurons
- each connected to up to 10**5 others
- ... in a pattern that's not well understood
- to do stuff that's ... not well understood
Walk through text and/or wikipedia articles to see the basic ideas
software
FANN (fast artificial neural network library) ; C and other languages API
Lush - lisp-ish language for machine learning, including neural net support
Brain - javascript supervised machine learning ; neural net & bayes classifier
many others:
