Collaboration?

[Owen Densmore]

Hey, wanna do some computer science?!

Steve and I are taking CS500 via distanced learning from UNM:
   http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/%7Emoore/500/500.html
It is based on a book soon to be published by Cris Moore and Stephen  
Mertens:
   http://www.nature-of-computation.org/

Cris is the prof for the class, and his homework is unusual: he wants  
us to collaborate with each other within the class, and for those of  
us distance learners, with people we know in our communities.  The  
problems are difficult enough that he feels it unlikely a single  
individual could do all of them.  Here are our last two assignments.  
Note the heading encouraging collaboration:
   http://backspaces.net/temp/HW3/homework2orig1.pdf
   http://backspaces.net/temp/HW3/homework3orig1.pdf

The same directory contains three chapter pre-prints used for the  
homework sets.

So here's the question: is anyone interested in working on these  
problems with Steve and me?

Basically meet, exchange email or use skype or phone to suggest ways  
to solve the problems, or references that might be useful.  Kinda like  
a Santa Fe Complex Project!  Its part of our project to improve higher  
education in Santa Fe. We can show past CS500 lectures at SFX if it  
would help participants.

     -- Owen



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[Douglas Roberts-2]

I bet you were one of those nerdy kids who couldn't wait for school to start in the fall, weren't you Owen?

Those are some difficult problems; sadly I have no time to collaborate.

--Doug

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hey, wanna do some computer science?!

Steve and I are taking CS500 via distanced learning from UNM:
 http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/%7Emoore/500/500.html
It is based on a book soon to be published by Cris Moore and Stephen Mertens:
 http://www.nature-of-computation.org/

Cris is the prof for the class, and his homework is unusual: he wants us to collaborate with each other within the class, and for those of us distance learners, with people we know in our communities.  The problems are difficult enough that he feels it unlikely a single individual could do all of them.  Here are our last two assignments.  Note the heading encouraging collaboration:
 http://backspaces.net/temp/HW3/homework2orig1.pdf
 http://backspaces.net/temp/HW3/homework3orig1.pdf

The same directory contains three chapter pre-prints used for the homework sets.

So here's the question: is anyone interested in working on these problems with Steve and me?

Basically meet, exchange email or use skype or phone to suggest ways to solve the problems, or references that might be useful.  Kinda like a Santa Fe Complex Project!  Its part of our project to improve higher education in Santa Fe. We can show past CS500 lectures at SFX if it would help participants.

   -- Owen



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