Fall 2024, Willamette University
MWF 12:00 - 1:00 PM Salem, Ford 201
Ford 3rd Floor
Artifical intelligence, machine learning, big data, and large scale computing have captured the collective imaginations of millions people across a range of technical expertise. Yet each of these buzzwords is rooted in a central promise: that machines may think.
Guided by student inquiry, we will learn how to construct thinking - or the appearance thereof - from basic computation. Using the shared language of computer code, we use programming as a way to bridge the gap between thinking humans and thinking machines. With this shared experience, we will be able to reflect more thoughtfully on the implications of thinking machines on the self, culture, and society.
| Day | Date | Time | Room | Materials | HW (Due Fri @ 12 Noon) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed | 08/21 | 04:00-05:30 PM | Ford 202 | Inquiry | |
| Thr | 08/22 | 01:30-03:00 PM | Ford 202 | Python | Triples |
| Fri | 08/23 | 10:00-11:30 AM | Ford 202 | Lambda |
| Week | Mon | Wed | Fri | HW (Due Fri @ 12 Noon) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 (26 Aug) | Lists | Indices | Reading & Writing | Order of Op's |
| 02 (02 Sep) | LABOR DAY: NO CLASS. | Synthesis | Data Analysis | Electoral Votes |
| 03 (09 Sep) | Majors | Library | Numerical Analysis | Populations |
| 04 (16 Sep) | Images | Emojis | Guest Lecture: Generative AI | Vexillology |
| 05 (23 Sep) | Histogram | 📷Plotly | Debug | Time back for 📷 |
| 06 (30 Sep) | Data | Lines | Work Day | Error |
| 07 (07 Oct) | Visualization | Learning | FALL BREAK DAY: NO CLASS. | |
| 08 (14 Oct) | Shouvik + Gradient | EDA | Meet Adviser + Sklearn | Project Proposal Data or Art |
| 09 (21 Oct) | Logistic | Pages | Scale | |
| 10 (28 Oct) | Seaborn | Random Forest | Visual Critique | |
| 11 (04 Nov) | .md | HTML | Writing Critique | |
| 12 (11 Nov) | CSS | HFMA | Reflections |