{"id":474,"date":"2019-08-09T10:20:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T17:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202019s2\/?p=474"},"modified":"2019-08-12T08:39:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T15:39:12","slug":"bonus-assignment-pagerank-algorithm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202019s2\/2019\/08\/09\/bonus-assignment-pagerank-algorithm\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonus assignment (PageRank algorithm)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone who is interested, here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202019s2\/files\/2019\/08\/pagerank_tutorial_and_bonus_assn.pdf\">written tutorial and bonus mini-assignment<\/a> on how to compute the PageRank of a graph. You can earn up to 3 course bonus points for this assignment by submitting it online on Gradescope up to 48 hours after the final exam (i.e., by 2:30 PM Thursday).<\/p>\n<p>A few caveats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>These bonus points are FAR LESS IMPORTANT than your final exam!\u00a0<\/strong>Do not sacrifice ANY necessary final exam practice\/study time OR any necessary rest\/relaxation to work on this. Unless you feel 100% confident that you are totally prepared for the exam, <strong>do not waste your pre-exam time and energy on this<\/strong>! (Also, if you DO feel 100% confident that you are totally prepared for the exam, you should read <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect\">this article on the Dunning-Kruger effect<\/a> before you decide to work on the bonus assignment instead of studying.)<\/li>\n<li>There is some probability and matrix algebra here, so it&#8217;s possible that not everyone will have the necessary background to answer all the questions without struggling a bit.<\/li>\n<li>Because this assignment is all for bonus points, I won&#8217;t provide any help with these questions (because bonus questions are supposed to be a challenge!).<\/li>\n<li>I will probably not release the solutions to these problems.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll return the assignments on Gradescope (possibly with feedback), but will not allow any regrade requests (because this is a bonus assignment and because we want to be prompt about submitting final grades).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone who is interested, here is a written tutorial and bonus mini-assignment on how to compute the PageRank of a graph. You can earn up to 3 course bonus points for this assignment by submitting it online on Gradescope &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202019s2\/2019\/08\/09\/bonus-assignment-pagerank-algorithm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43098,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202019s2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202019s2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202019s2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202019s2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202019s2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202019s2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202019s2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202019s2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202019s2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cpsc3202019s2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}