Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 23:48:36 04/26/00
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On April 27, 2000 at 02:31:19, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On April 26, 2000 at 18:29:19, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>On April 26, 2000 at 15:10:31, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >> >>>On April 26, 2000 at 11:18:10, Dave Gomboc wrote: >>> >>>>On April 26, 2000 at 03:59:17, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >>>> >>>>>On top of that, you have to know about alpha-beta. I have met a number of CS >>>>>grads who remember that minmax/alpha-beta is an algorithm but can't remember >>>>>what it's used for, much less how to implement it. And I'm sure that even the >>>>>best AI classes would not cover stuff like quiescence searches. >>>> >>>>Quiescence search was discussed in the initial AI class that I took back during >>>>my undergraduate program. The professor wasn't a games person, but it was >>>>discussed during the section of the course on game-tree search. >>> >>>My bad, then. >>> >>>The AI classes at schools that I know about are almost all devoted to neural >>>networks and genetic algorithms and so forth. Very little about tree searching. >>>So, depends on which school you go to. >>> >>>-Tom >> >>You definitely have a point, though. I was lucky that even though the fellow I >>took my AI course from was into symbolic reasoning, he felt that the concept of >>"search" was fundamental to AI, so quite a bit of the intro to AI course was >>devoted to search. I can totally imagine some other professors doing some NN or >>GA or belief networks or whatever, and skipping search completely. In fact, the >>professor the next year (a different one than who taught me) did exactly that, >>and boy were some of my friends bummed out! >> >>I've taken just 2 official "AI" courses: the intro, then a grad course >>specifically on Heuristic Search, so overall I've been rather happy with my AI >>courses. :) I've also TAed lisp and prolog though, so I suppose I haven't >>completely ignored 'other' AI. >> >>Dave > >Computer programming is like playing the harmonica: > >1) If you don't have any interest in playing the harmonica, music school won't >help. >2) If you want to play the harmonica, you can get very good at it without going >to music school. Perhaps you'll get even better if you go to school. > >Tom is talking about CS courses but he wrote Stobor while he was in high school. > >I took about a year of CS in college and flunked about half of it. > >bruce Yeah, I'm not even doing CS, but I have helped teach/TA some CS classes, and I know a number of CS people at different schools. -Tom
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