Web Comm, 2017-18 edition

Minutes for lecture I

 ----- Plan for the day -----

Some infos about course: resources, contacts, exams. 

Data presentation: Spreadsheet.

Functions with complete knowledge: Max()

Functions with incomplete Knowledge: The secretary problem

Why the secretary problem is meaningful abstraction for web communications: 
data is flowinng, cannot be easily saved, there's non finite domain to refer to.

 ----- A walk in the garden with Stat and Prob. ----- 

A sensor/probe returns one of a finite set of possible values.

Frequency and frequency histogram

Normalization

The important of having multiple observations

AVG and Median, why median is better?

From normalized frequencies to probabilities

De Finetti: subjective probability

Exercise: prob. of seeing a 'six' when throwing two dice. 


Not done for lack of time:

Searching for a solution: Genetic programming