Okay, guys this is Discrete Optimization,
week eight, sorry for last week,
I was in China again and we had absolutely
no internet connection.
I couldn't even download slides last week.
So one of the first things that I want to
tell
you guys this week is that we are so
proud, okay.
So this is amazing where we are at this
point, look
at this graph okay, we never thought we
would get there okay.
So this is around 700 people now,
getting a certificate and when you look at
this,
this is around 200 getting the
distinction, this is amazing.
Right?
So we never thought we would get there,
this is very, very
high numbers, we are really so proud of
what you guys did.
This is amazing, Okay?
So we are really, really, really excited.
you've seen on the forum the t-shirts, I
love them, you know they are beautiful.
Look at this one, even you know I am color
blind but I can see the colors on this
one.
They are so bright, I love this color and
stuff.
Of course, we are already ordering these
t-shirts ourselves okay, so look at this
one.
The other one is actually, and thanks for
the
people who actually submitting those
solution, Alexli probably here.
And so this is the, this is the
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the TSP one also completely crazy
t-shirts.
You know, once again I love these
t-shirts, okay.
You can order them.
All the instructions are on the website if
you are interested obviously.
let me talk a little bit about the
other stuff about what we're going to
cover today.
We're going to talk about the post-course
survey, the TA program,
and there will be an entire video on this
one.
I urge you to look at it, you know.
And then other opportunities you'll see,
and then some of the statistics that I'm
giving you every week, and I'll
talk a little bit about the fact that this
is the final week, okay.
So post-course survey, I think, you know,
it's very important that we
understand exactly how you felt about the
class and the various topics.
You know, if you want more details, less
details, if this is covered the same
level where you want more information,
give us
that feedback, you know, this is really
important.
Same thing about the assignments, which
ones were too tough, which ones were
too easy, you know, do you want more,
really or do you want less?
you know, you know, basically give us as
much feedback as you can.
Also once again you can post everything on
the forum, we
actually read this all the time, okay, we
are really obsessed with
this thing I think you notice, we read the
first, first thing
in the morning, you know late, you know
last thing before sleeping.
so put as many
comments as you can, tell your stories and
and, you
know, we can tell you that we read
everything, okay.
so the TA program, okay so there will be
an entire video there so
what we want to do is improve the class so
we want your help, okay?
So, there are various ways you can help,
you know there are very, various
forms of commitment that you know, you can
do and look at the video.
We going to cover these things but it can
be as
easy as just participating in the
forum, answering questions, giving hints
to students.
To something when you can really shape the
class and I
will tell you in the other video what that
means, okay.
But this is, you know, you can have a big
impact
on the class and I'll cover that in the
other video, okay.
So, but this is something we strongly
believe
in, you know, the teach assistant programs
are
making a huge difference in practice, so
you
know, just watch the video please, okay,
good.
yeah, right, okay.
no opportunities you know, most of you
know
that I'm professor here at The University
of Melbourne.
I have another job actually which is
leading the optimization group research
group at NICTA.
It's sup /g, it's essentially NICTA is a
national ICT city center in Australia and
is basically collaborating very very
closely with you
know the main universities and the top
universities
in Australia.
Visit university of melbourne, the ANU,
and
the university of new software in Sydney.
So essentially this group is like a
national group
of like 60 reseracher at this point five
professor.
And these professor are like vampires
right, they like
young blood and young blood for us well is
students.
Okay, so we love students and we are
recruiting heavily students okay.
So if you are interested okay,
the Masters and PhD students, you, you,
you
would be enrolled in one of these
universities and
you would get you know for instance
scholarship
From NICTA, if you get into the phD
program.
So if you're interested in that, you know
you can email,you know Sandra, who is
the coordinator of the group, really the
brain of the group essentially for more
information.
There are also optimization internship at
NICTA, for four ,six
,12 months, make sure you want to do a
PHD,
you can come and see what it means to do
research in such a group.
And once again you can email us for more
details.
And finally, some of you have been so good
that Phil Killby who has actually
been leading the logistic part of the
group
was like "woah these solutions are really
nice.
I want these people to work for me" so if
you are interested in logistics, like in
the VRP assignment, okay.
So you can talk to you can talk to once
again send an e-mail to Sandra and Phil
will look
at your applications and decide if you,
you know, if you want to, if you can join
this, this four month internship that he's
actually promoting, okay?
So, once again these opportunities in, you
know if you are
you know, if you want to pursue more
optimization with us.
Okay?
Now let my go back to the statistics now.
This is the number of students active in
assignments, okay?
So this is, you know, basically, you know,
very stable at this point, okay?
slight decrease, okay?
this is the total submissions graded,
okay?
And so there is this very bizarre thing
here, right, so
that's certainly, we have a lot more
submissions, so we will like.
What's going on?
Okay, and this is the submission per
active student, same thing.
Okay, so what is happening?
Okay, so this is the total number of
submissions by people who are submitting
like crazy,
okay, and so you see top, you know, this
is the second rank,
this is the third rank, so about you know,
1500 for the second rank.
And this is an interesting point, this is
the first ranked student.
This student has submitted 190,000
assignments, okay,
soultions, over the course of this class.
Okay, and so this is
the submission over time, okay, so this is
the beginning and then
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and this is a log scale right.
So this is a, so this number, this
increase kind of crazy.
Right?
So what happened?
Okay, so what happened is that this
student actually
had a very nice program sending solution
all the time,okay.
Every time he would find a solution he
would send it.
You can do that with the infer structure
that we have,
probably it's not a good idea but still
you know, you know.
This is what happened and we took a little
time to actually notice this.
Okay, yep so this is the Participation
per Assignment you have seen this graph
before.
it's very nice you know like 850 for the
Warehouse Location okay, so this is a
large number,if you can keep that number
for
the last assignment that would be
terrific, okay?
650 for the VRP so which is also good.
Some of the Puzzle Challenge are growing
up, that's also good, okay,
so you can get a little bit more points
for your distinction,
see if you want to do that.
Okay, so keep these number little bit up
and we'll be really, really, truly happy.
one of the things that we have to tell you
is
that on August 20, all the submissions
will stop counting toward your
grades, so you have to submit before
August 20, that's the last
day that which, you know, the submissions
will count for you grade.
You can keep submitting, right, so but
that won't,
that won't count on for your grade but you
can see oh, you know if I had a little bit
more time I could have got a ten or okay.
after that, after August 20 we'll take a
couple
of days and generate all the certificates
for you guys.
the course content remains open.
You can keep submitting.
You can keep looking at everything, okay.
But, your certificate won't be reissued,
okay.
So August 20 is our deadline for getting a
certificate, okay?
So you can cram a lot of work this week to
just you know
get where you want to be.
the next session probably in six or 12
months so the course will remain open
until then.
Once we go to the next session, you know
the current
section will, will become, the current
session will become inaccessible, okay?
So essentially we leave it open as much as
we
can and at some point we transition to the
new one.
Okay.
So thank you.
You know, I think it was really a great
week.
We'll have one more mail back
probably last week.
next week.
For actually summarizing everything.
But you know, most of you are ready to go
to the next step in optimization.
And once again, I love this graph you
know.
Thank you, guys.