Reading 1: Who can define the bigger number?
This assignment is due on Sunday, August 28 at 11:59pm. Don’t bullshit.
Exercise 1. Use this invite link to join Hypothesis, a service that lets us talk to each other as we read. Go to your settings and edit your profile so that your “display name” is the same name that you have been using in this course.
When you follow the link above with your browser, you should see Aaronson’s article, as well as a button “<” in the upper-right corner. Use the “<” button to expand the annotation sidebar.
You may need to log in to Hypothesis, using the account you created in Exercise 1.
**Pay attention to this next step**. This is a common mistake that results in many zeros on the assignment. After logging in, you are not done. You still have to expand the drop-down menu “Public” in the top right sidebar, make sure it says “my groups”, and change it to our course group “211”.
You belong to this group because you used the invite
link in Exercise 1. If you don’t post to this group, then other students
won’t see your annotations, and you won’t get credit.
Make your question clear, descriptive, and specific.
Don’t be too brief, terse, or vague. Don’t just say “What’s this” or “I don’t understand”.
Don’t just summarize.
Exercise 4. Once you have added your questions, respond to someone else.
For the rest of this page, you don’t need to submit anything. We’ll work through the material together in class.
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Optional: Read about the Bignum Bakeoff, a contest to write a short program (512 characters) that generates the biggest number.