CDS 241 Course details (Spring 2018)
CDS 270 Course Details
There are videos, slides, and reading in a dropbox folder.
Course videos and slides are in subfolder CDS270.
Currently there are just a few sets of videos in these subfolders of CDS270:
1.Overview These give a quick overview of the questions motivating this class, primarily using the human nervous system, but mentioning bacteria and the Internet. These will also be the first videos to watch for the class. There is also a folder with some related papers.
2.NeuroIntroTheory A quick introduction to the theory that connects speed/accuracy tradeoffs in spiking neurons with speed/accuracy tradeoffs at the system level.
3.BalanceWaterbed Summary of stick balancing tradeoffs including unstable poles and zeros. The "waterbed" effect and oscillations. Chaotic dynamics and sensitivity to initial conditions.
3.x1.ExtrasVision has extra slides on vision and visual illusions.
3.x2.TuringArchMiscDetails has more extra old slides on architecture details, with an emphasis on connecting with Turing's work.
I'll continue to add to these.
You might want to download the videos, as dropbox will run them in preview mode, which limits their length.
Initial schedule
Tu Apr 4 Discussion about 1.Overview 2.NeuroIntroTheory
Th Apr 6 Demos and questions on Driving game, balancing, and Theory questions and clarifications
Tu Apr 11 Recap above and start discussion about 3.Balance 3.x1.ExtrasVision
Th Apr 13 Finish discussion of 3.Balance 3.x1.ExtrasVision
If you are interested in medicine and/or biology see: 4.MedPhysio&HeartRateVar 5.BioGlycoOscillate If there is interest we'll have a week focus later on these.
Recommended lite reading (listening)
These are popular books for a general audience available in audio format.
Nick Lane, The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life Audible
Nick Lane, Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution Audible
Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Sangeet Paul Choudary, Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy - and How to Make Them Work for You Audible
Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life Audible
Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds Audible
Robert J. Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War Audible
Kathleen McAuliffe, This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society Audible