What Is Programming? And How To Get Started
January 28, 2025
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Instructor: David Quigley
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Model the effects of multiple decision maker systems in various scenarios.
Analyze the Prisoner’s Dilemma and other Game Theory scenarios as a model of decision making and behavioral adaptation.
Discuss the relationships in genetic evolution models and developmental models of judgement and decision making.
Implement the design of autonomous agents as artificial life.
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In this course, we will explore how individual problem solving, judgment, and decision making can be influenced by interpersonal and developmental factors.
This week we will explore how individual decision rules and heuristics can create higher-order outcomes when applied in groups.
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This week we will explore mathematical models of different decision processes in game theory scenarios.
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This week we will explain how different game theory models of decision making can model evolutionary processes and how different behaviors can be supportive of species survival from an evolutionary perspective.
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This week we will discuss how different behaviors of biological life can be reproduced in artificial systems.
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Lack of Hints in Exercises makes it quite challenging. But the content is really good. If only the instructor was as good as the course content is...
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