Thursday, February 18, 2016

Hi again

Well, folks.

Our 5 sessions together are done. Am happy to note they went by smoothly enough. Thanks for being a nice class.

Watch this space for homework assignments, additional reading material etc that I'll put up. Feel free to explore blog entries from previous years to gain some idea regarding assignments and readings.

It won't be possible for me to put-up links to every topic and sub-topic mentioned or covered in class. However, searching the web will often reveal the info required.

For example, from session 5, if you want to know more about ROS or Baxter or a Turtlebot, just google search and explore the results.

Here are the class pictures we took. It's a tradition of sorts with me the past year odd, clicking pics with every class I've taught on the last day of class.

This is for Section A (I think)

And this with Section B.

One important perspective to keep in mind is that you're all in this learning journey together. You'll have a choice between adopting a collaborative mindset versus a competitive mindset.

I urge you to collaborate as a class to accomplish more learning for the class as a whole. Its better for everybody if everybody is willing to help/share with peers, than if everybody seals themselves off into silos. But crucially, this requires that *everybody* buys into the idea.

I encourage you to use the comments section of this blog for queries, ideas, feedback etc regarding the DC course.

Cheers and Ciao.

Sudhir

2 comments:

  1. Thank you Sir, these 5 sessions were really wonderful :), also your last para sounds like Prisoner's dilemma from game thoery ! Nevertheless, I assure you, we all are here to learn and already showing the signs of collaboration.

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    1. 'Prisoner's Dilemma' is an incomplete information game. it requires that the players not be able to signal intent or otherwise communicate at all. More generally, in complete information games, Pareto optimality is a lot more attainable.
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      Quite a lot of Academese I know... but hey, welcome to my world...

      Sudhir

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