I will keep the graded exercises in my room for another week or so as to handle any irrurim or technicalities (so you can come and pick them up when I’m there), and I will then put them in Ross -1.

We used a simple unweighted average over all question-parts and all chores, where chores were pass/fail, and then scaled the grades up a bit to ensure that the highest grades were 100.  You can see the formulas in the excel sheet if you are so inclined.

You may look at my recent blog post about my evaluation of the “wikipedia chore”.  In particular, we are looking to hire a short-term TA/RA to go over the wikipedia entries of the class (list here) and fix them up a bit .  If you are interested, then please talk to one of us.

2. In general, come check your exercises  since there are some additional anonymous submissions.

Thanks.

Do not forget to have “compecon: summary of chores” as the title of your email (to mfeldman@huji.ac.il and  noam@cs.huji.ac.il).

In q.2 part (d), it should be $O(\frac{log |X|}{bias(f)^2})$ rather than $O(log |X| bias(f)^2)$ (i.e., the bias is not multiplied, rather divided by).

compecon: summary of chores

2. In part (e) of q.3, the time of the algorithm should be $n^{O((log n)/\epsilon^2)}$ rather than $O(n^{(log n)/\epsilon^2})$.

1. There will be no fourth exercise.  (Hooray?)
2. Handing in EX3 is postponed by a week – to the 17th.  No more.
3. Those that did not finish the three (3) course duties (wikipedia-entry + 2 of {lecture-notes, grading-a-question, writing-solution-to-question}) have to complete an additional requirement from the following list:
   • Read a paper of your choice in the area and extract from it the simplest interesting result and write it up.  The idea is to write a full and formal exposition (including definitions and proofs) of one small thing in the paper.  Can be done in pairs.  Expected length 1-2 pages.  No more.
   • Suggest an application of game-theory to something related to computer science or computer systems that you have not seen anywhere yet.  Write up the basic model and questions that seem interesting.  Can be done in pairs.  Expected length 1-2 pages.  No more.
   • An additional wikipedia entry.
   • Suggest an interesting chore of your own choice — and let us approve it.  Can be done in any group size – but we have to approve before hand also the group size.
4. In order to get a grade in the course you must send us an (michal&noam) an email with the following pieces of information:
   • name & id number
   • The list of the 3 chores that you did, including the names of your partners in each
   • The URLs of the wikipedia entries as well as the URLs to the lecture-notes or ex-solutions (which of course you have already previously sent us and we uploaded to the site.)
   • A statement of how many classes you have missed during the semester.  If the number is greater than 3 then you must speak with one of us in person.
5. The deadline for completing all chores as well as sending us the email above is one week after classes end: 31/1.  Delays of up to one additional week will be penalized in the grade.