Author: José Antônio Fabiano Mendes
Date: 05:54:23 04/27/00
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On April 27, 2000 at 02:48:36, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >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 Rik´s Rules of Programming: http://www.1313mockingbirdlane.com/dojo/rulesof.htm How many of those rules do you follow?Or are they worthless? JAFM
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