ESP Biography
JACOB STEINHARDT, ESP Teacher
Major: Computer Science College/Employer: Stanford Year of Graduation: 2017 |
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Brief Biographical Sketch:
Not Available. Past Classes(Clicking a class title will bring you to the course's section of the corresponding course catalog)P2763: Human Vision in Splash! Spring 2013 (Apr. 13 - 14, 2013)
As we move around through the world, our visual system solves an impressive array of problems, from depth perception to motion detection to object recognition; many of these tasks are so hard that we still have no idea how to program computers to solve them.
In this class we will present experiments from cognitive science and neuroscience that will help us understand how our brain solves these tasks, with implications for what a computer would need to do to achieve similar performance.
M2769: Natural Language Processing in Splash! Spring 2013 (Apr. 13 - 14, 2013)
If you've ever used Google Translate or Siri, you'll know that, while computers can understand an increasingly comprehensive range of spoken and written language, there is still much progress to be made. In this class, I will talk about the techniques behind statistical models for machine translation; by the end we will understand enough to implement a basic machine translation system.
L2770: Effective Altruism in Splash! Spring 2013 (Apr. 13 - 14, 2013)
How should one act in order to do the most good? Should we volunteer for a charity? If so, which charity? Or should we instead work at a high-paying job so that we can donate money? While these questions are complex, we do know some things, and the answers are often unintuitive. In this class I will talk about the basics of effective altruism, with a focus on what you can do as a high school student.
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