Logistics and Agenda

Homework 3 due Monday Sept 21 at 11:59pm

Agenda

This week: AI tools, data reduction & fitting
Next week: root-finding, numerical integration

Today

AI fitting exercise (20 min)
Coding time (30 min)

In-Class Assessment

Recall from the syllabus:

Your final grade for the course will be determined from the following grading weight distribution:
- Quizzes: 10%
- Homeworks: 15% +5% (in class assessment)
- Midterm projects: 20% + 20%
- Final project: 15% take home + 15% in class

We will start doing these assessments every Friday coding lab, starting today.

We cannot talk to everyone at once, so we will pick randomly until we have gone through the whole roster.

Be prepared to discuss your most recent homework submission.

No AI tools are allowed during this assessment.

We may ask you some of the following questions:

Explain these lines of your code
Explain why you chose to implement your code this way
Modify your code slightly
Explain your validation procedures
Change a parameter and predict the outcome before re-running

Example AI Workflow

Here we will work through a complete cycle of the AI workflow:

Explain existing code
Critique existing code
Plan modifications
Implement modifications
Verification
Interpretation and Validation

At every step we will exercise scientific judgment to ensure the results are sound.

Coding Lab 5

Logistics and Agenda

In-Class Assessment

Example AI Workflow