Index

CLRS Index

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Exploring CLRS.

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Decision Making Index

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Lecture notes taking during CS238, decision making. Stanford Intelligence Systems Laboratory (SISL: planning and validation of intelligent systems).

Big Ideas

Themes

  1. There’s a principled mathematical framework for defining rational behavior
  2. There are computational techniques that could lead to better, and perhaps counter-intuitive decisions
  3. Successful application depends on your choice of representation and approximation
    • you typically can’t solve mathematical models exactly
    • so, we have to rely on good models of approximations
  4. The same computational approaches can be applied to different application domains
    • the same set of abstractions can be carried through life
    • send Mykel a note about how these topics about where this stuff is applied

These algorithms drive high quality decisions on a tight timeline. You can’t fuck up: people die.

Differential Equations

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A Differential Equation is a function-valued algebreic equation whose unknown is an entire function \(y(x)\), where the equation involves a combination of derivatives $y(x), y’(x), …$.

See Differential Equations Index

and Uniqueness and Existance