Hi all,
You should now be able to see your assignment grades as well as a preliminary overall grade on WebCMS and sms. Please note that the results may change. If you failed to achieve the 40% requirement for the exam, your final grade will be listed as 40 FL. I am currently working through determining the students who will qualify for a supplementary exam - assignment & quiz marks and performance on the final exam will all contribute to that decision. Those students will be advised soon.
It is entirely possible I have made some errors when transcribing the results, please let me know if you believe there has been a significant omission/error asap - note that it may take me some time to give individual feedback, but I will certainly check any issues raised.
Best,
Paul
Hi all,
I'm getting a couple of concerned emails and I thought I'd send out a bulk email to (hopefully) help calm everyone.
Firstly, there was an error in the first multiple-choice question on the exam, which I was unaware of until just now - the correct answer, 6, was not an option, so the question will be dropped (everyone gets it correct!). My apologies for not being able to address it this morning - if anyone mentioned it to an invigilator, then the information was not passed on to me. Incidentally, issues like this are why lecturers are required to be available during the examination - if you have serious concerns about a question then you should raise it with an invigilator who should pass it on to the lecturer in charge. Once raised, carry on with the rest of the exam (try to not let them take your exam paper, and do not waste time waiting for a resolution). If your issue is not resolved satisfactorily before you need it to be in order to answer the question, answer it to the best of your ability, highlighting the assumptions you are making (if possible).
Secondly, as the previous point highlights, I am human (last I checked) and I will be marking your papers. I will be checking all of your books (which is why they were all collected), primarily to see if there is anything I can award partial credit for. So as long as it is clear what question you are answering, it does not matter whether your answers are all in a book, or on the exam paper - the only issue being if I cannot easily find/identify them. Likewise, it doesn't matter too much whether you used a cross/tick/circle/smiley face if you only marked one multiple choice answer. Corrections to multiple choice answers should have followed the instructions at the front of the exam paper to avoid ambiguities.
Finally, I am wading through the assignment mark request emails (keep them coming!) and will answer everyone eventually.
Don't panic - I think most of you will be surprised at where/how you end up picking up marks, so there's a good chance you have done better than you believe. Focus on your next exams (if you have more).
As always, I will be available to address specific individual concerns and I am happy to answer any further questions/issues you have.
Paul
Hi all,
I will not be available for consultation until 12:30 today (because apparently USyd still have classes this week)
Hi All,
I'm still having issues with the assignment marks, and it doesn't look like it will be resolved before the exam. Please email me if you would like to know your marks. Those that have already emailed me and are waiting for a response (including those that emailed me before the weekend and whose Assignment 2 marks I didn't have): I will get back to you very soon and I will include your marks for Assignment 3.
Thank you for your patience,
Paul
Hi all,
I have put up the solutions for the final quiz and the final assignment.
The recording of the last lecture has also been put up on Moodle.
I will be available for last minute consultation on Thursday, November 2 from 12-4pm in Room 402.
I have answered some questions asked by students under the heading "FAQ 1". It is in the lectures section.
Hello all. I will (I think Paul too) have consultations next week at the usual times. On Tuesday, I will stay till 6pm.
I also encourage you to email your questions regarding any of the topics. The questions should be short and clear and deal with understanding or clarification of concepts. If there are enough questions I will create a FAQ to help all.
Good luck!
As a few of you have tried to point out, and someone has finally managed to, my "fix" for Q4 on the assignment does not actually achieve what I wanted. In short, there are often many "steady state solutions" (as there are for this question), and the one you actually reach from the initial configuration given in this question oscillates between two distributions, rather than stabilizing on a single one as I intended. I thought adding an extra vertex would fix this problem, but it needed something else (I believe an edge between v1 and v3 would have been sufficient). Note that there are initial configurations which will reach a single steady state (for example the single state distribution), so you should continue to attempt the question as posed . That is, assume that we start in a configuration that will converge to a single steady state (i.e. one where p i (n+1) = p i (n)) and solve for that steady state.
Hi All,
Quiz 10 is now online, apologies for the delay.
Because I want to cover the answers in the final lecture it will still be due on Thursday at 15:00.
Hi All,
I have had to make a small change to the assignment so that the answer works properly - the graph in Q4 now has 5 vertices instead of 4. The corrected assignment is now online. Anyone that has already attempted the question should have no problem adjusting to the correction, but please contact me if the change does cause any significant difficulties.
Paul
Hi all,
The final assignment is now available. It is due on
Sunday, October 29 at 23:59
.
Please note that
only pdf files
will be accepted for submission. You may submit more than once - your latest submission is the one which will be marked. I suggest attempting at least one submission a few days before the deadline in case you run into difficulties.
Please contact me if you have any issues with your submission.
Hi all,
Due to illness, the availability of Quiz 9 has been delayed. The due date will be adjusted accordingly.
Sorry,
Paul
The error was in Q4, not Q5.
Hi all,
I have noticed an error in one of the questions (Q5) in this week's quiz. It has now been corrected. While I do not believe the correction significantly affects the intent of the question, the revised question is different enough that it may affect some answers. I have contacted students that, according to my records, have already attempted the quiz (and not received full marks). If you are yet to complete the quiz, please make sure you have the latest version of the questions. If you completed the older version of the quiz and have not been contacted by me (and did not receive 5/5), please get in touch.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Paul
There is a small change in the consultation room for Tuesday. It is 402 instead of 403.
I also will be available for consultation between 12:30-4:00 on Thursday during the break
I will be available at CSE on Monday (1pm onward) and Tuesday (2.30pm onward). So if you want to discuss anything regarding the course send me an email. We will meet in one of the consultation rooms.
There is a one-week break starting next week. So there will be no lectures or consultations. The forum will remain open of course!
Assignment 2 is now online and available in the "Assignments" section from the course website.
Some of the assignment includes material that will be covered in the upcoming lecture.Please contact me if you have any issues with your submission.
Hi all,
This week's quiz will be available in a few hours.
Thank you for your patience,
Paul
Hi all,
Just to clarify, the previous notice was about your existing marks (i.e. Quizzes 1,2,3 and shortly 4). Assignment 1 is still being marked - I hope to have the marks available by the end of next week.
Best,
Paul
Hi all,
Currently the WebCMS interface to the mark system SMS is down. As a result you won't be able to see your marks through WebCMS for a while (hopefully not more than one or two days). You can still access your results via the command line on CSE workstations with the command:
9020 classrun -sturec
Or via Give/SMS's own web interface here:
https://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~give/code/login.php?app=/~give/Student/sturec.php
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Paul
To help students who work I have changed the consultation times for Tuesday, effective from next week. Remember the consultations are for any difficulties related to the course that you may have. We are there to help!
Please let us know if you have any issues with submission as soon as possible. Feel free to discuss with ether of us any issue related to the course in the Consultations. We are here to help!
Quiz 3 covering equivalence relations, partial orders and matrices is now available online.
Marks for the previous quizzes should be available in SMS, at the very least in the next 24 hours - please contact me if you believe there has been an error.
Assignment 1 is now online and available in the "Assignments" section from the course website.
Some of the assignment includes material that will be covered in the upcoming lecture.Please contact me if you have any issues with your submission.
I have arranged for myself and the course administrator, Manas Patra, to be available for student consultation at the following times and locations:
We are also still available via email and the course forums.
Please let us know if these times suit you.
Quiz 2, covering functions and relations is now available on the WebCMS site. It is due on Thursday 17 August at 15:00.
A reminder that Quiz 1 is due at 23:59
tonight
.
Quiz 1, covering Numbers, Sets & Alphabets is now available online.
Apologies for the delay, as a consequence it is due on Friday Aug 11, 23:59.
It is not timed, but you may only make one submission, so please be careful when you submit your answer.
The quiz questions involve mathematical symbols using unicode - I do not know if everyone will be able to correctly view the content, so please contact me if you have trouble viewing the quiz in your browser.