Category Archives: Study Diary

Open University needs to revise the examination format.

I have no idea how I went with that exam. I came out feeling reasonably confident, but thats what happened the first time I did it, so I’m reserving my opinion. I did however see the benefit of the way … Continue reading

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25 minutes to go.

Right, I’m mainly posting this because I’ve exhausted all other reading material around me and I’ll be doing enough staring into space after the exam starts I think. Here is a picture of what I can see out the window. … Continue reading

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Exam Today

I’m not confident. That may be a good thing, going in cocky did me no good last time. I dont think I’ve done enough study, I KNOW I haven’t done enough maths, but it’s too late to stress about it … Continue reading

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Emulating a Nerve – 6 Days left

In essence, an Artificial Neural Network is a very simple thing. To look at a neural network from the perspective of its most basic component, a nerve is nothing more than a decision engine, which either produces a “No” (no … Continue reading

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Mechanisms – 6 Days Study Left

Given that I have 6 days of useful study time left, all of which will be filled with children being the lovely, yet inherently distracting horrors they are, I’m beginning to lose hope with this exam. I have not yet … Continue reading

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Natural Intelligence – 10 Days to go

Natural intelligence, also known as Nouvelle A.I. is also known as biologically inspired A.I. Natural intelligence can be defined as behavioural intelligence, that is, intelligent seeming behaviour which has come about as a response to an organisms adaptation to a … Continue reading

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Planning – 13 Days to go.

Planning in A.I. is the process of utilising search to reach specific goals. The text uses the example of buying some apples. Intuitively, buying apples would seem to be a simple task, go to the shop, get some apples, pay … Continue reading

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Understanding the minimax algorithm. – 14 days to go

The minimax algorithm is a search heuristic which originally aroose from game theory. It works on the basis of a multiplayer game where each of the players is looking to minimise  the opponents best possible outcome, while maximising his own … Continue reading

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Informed versus Uninformed – 19 days go

  The study goals this entry is answering are as follows: 2.1 – understand the role of search in Symbolic AI; 2.2 – employ the terminology related to search techniques; 2.3 – describe how various uninformed and informed search algorithms … Continue reading

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Laying out Goals – 22 Days to go

This afternoon, I decided I would lay out my goals for the next few days. As I said in a previous post, I’m planning on addressing study goals rather than ploughing through each sub unit and rehashing what has been … Continue reading

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