Quiz #1 has been posted to Canvas, and is due Friday the 26th at midnight. This quiz is timed generously at 90 minutes, is open-book, open-notes, open-four-function-calculator, closed-Python, and must be completed entirely on your own, with no help from others.

Students found Emily Dickinson’s to be… Homework #1 has finally been graded and is on the scoreboard. Great job on these! And congrats to those who have reached new levels: Samuel Langhorn Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain) was one of the greatest writers in American history, and a potent 19th-century public figure and celebrity. Ernest Hemingway…

Why is frozen a word, but not squozen?

Homework #2 has been posted, and is due on September 24th at midnight. Start early, and email me questions as soon as you have them!

Here are the solutions to Thursday’s XP-bearing in-class activity. (Btw, these solutions also contain calculations for “perplexity,” a concept we’ll address on Tuesday.) Send questions!

I have finally posted the solution to the penultimate reading check.

And finally, the solution to our last linear algebra reading check. Great job everyone! Now we can use the power of linear algebra as a tool to make next-generation NLP applications.

Some exciting upcoming CPSC department events: please consider attending! (DATA majors are warmly welcome to attend, just as CPSC majors are.) Monday = CyberClub Interest Meeting @ 6:00 in HCC 111 Weds = GMU Accellerated Grad Program Info Session @ noon in Farmer 041 (free pizza) Weds = UMW CPSC/CYBR Internship Panel @ 4:00 in…

True story: E.L. James was the first person ChatGPT listed when I asked it, “give me an example of a really popular, but also really bad, writer.” (Apologies to any Twilight or Fifty Shades fans.) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote in many genres, actually, but will of course forever be linked with his “Sherlock Holmes”…

I only now just realized that yesterday’s reading check did not actually include reading material on matrix multiplication! D’oh!!! That information is in chapter 6, and shouldn’t have appeared until the Sep 11th reading check. *Sigh*. Obviously I will give everybody full credit for quiz items 5c, 5d, 5g, and 5h, which required that knowledge.…