Aw dang, I passed...
Jul. 3rd, 2009 12:15 pmI finally received my grade for the computational intelligence course I took over half the summer.
I'm rather disappointed with it, actually.
I passed with an A.
I almost wanted to fail so I could take it again for good reason.
You see, most of what we learned was using Prolog for Natural Language Processing, with a little bit of time devoted to other subjects such as various forms of path-finding (including literal pathfinding as well as search spaces for games such as chess and the towers of Hanoi), and, um, well, I don't remember much else.
I would have preferred to have more time dedicated to search-space-type, or even Neural Networks, but I suppose when you only have two months to give an overview of the subject, you go with what you know best...
If I could, I'd have rather taken it under one of the instructors on the closer campus, as I know that one better, the course would likely last the full semester, and it would be less focused on NLP.
I'll admit that NLP was kind of fun, and I will use some of my code again someday (probably soon), but I don't think it was quite appropriate to focus on it so much.
(out of the two assignments and one project, one assignment and the project dealt with it, and we didn't get much of an introduction to it before, either)
Eventually, a couple of possibilities I see for myself are computer games (AI is rather important in most of them) and robotics (AI helps them seem to be more intelligent, with such applications as navigation and problem-solving), both of which would benefit from a background in AI.
I guess I need to talk to an academic advisor...
I'm rather disappointed with it, actually.
I passed with an A.
I almost wanted to fail so I could take it again for good reason.
You see, most of what we learned was using Prolog for Natural Language Processing, with a little bit of time devoted to other subjects such as various forms of path-finding (including literal pathfinding as well as search spaces for games such as chess and the towers of Hanoi), and, um, well, I don't remember much else.
I would have preferred to have more time dedicated to search-space-type, or even Neural Networks, but I suppose when you only have two months to give an overview of the subject, you go with what you know best...
If I could, I'd have rather taken it under one of the instructors on the closer campus, as I know that one better, the course would likely last the full semester, and it would be less focused on NLP.
I'll admit that NLP was kind of fun, and I will use some of my code again someday (probably soon), but I don't think it was quite appropriate to focus on it so much.
(out of the two assignments and one project, one assignment and the project dealt with it, and we didn't get much of an introduction to it before, either)
Eventually, a couple of possibilities I see for myself are computer games (AI is rather important in most of them) and robotics (AI helps them seem to be more intelligent, with such applications as navigation and problem-solving), both of which would benefit from a background in AI.
I guess I need to talk to an academic advisor...