Tuesday, 16 November 2010

5th Week Results

No bonus marks here.

ahmed alaa 3
ahmed aly 3
ahmed ayman 4
ahmed farouk 3.5
ahmed mostafa 3
ahmed omar 3.5
hisham rabie 1
ibrahim galal 2.5
kholoud raafat 3.5
lina nabil 3.5
maria nicola 2.5
marian moheb 4
menna fathy 2.5
mina karam 2.5
mina nicola 4
mo ezzat 3.5
mostafa hany 3.5
nada alaa 4
nathalie amir 3.5
neveen ali 4
ola mokhtar 3
omar khaled 3
omar said 4
rafik farid 3
salma sameh 3.5
sarah sameh 4.5
sherif ahmed 3
shrouk moataz 4


Some general notes on people's performance:

- In explaining the chat dialogues a lot of you would say things like "the computer said 'I think' and a computer cannot think, therefore it's not a computer". This is not sufficient. You need to find better reasons and explain your reasoning more.

A good example to follow came from Mina Karam:

"I don't think you're serious, by winter's day ..."
B understands that what A said has a literal meaning and another meaning (tashbeeh) [analogy or metaphor]; a computer wouldn't understand this.


A bad example is that of Rafik Farid:

B is not a computer because of the sentence "I don't think".


Rafik, you must explain more.

- In the question about finding two errors in the predicate logic statement concerning rents in Alex and Cairo, many of you were very unclear.

Ahmed Mostafa wrote a predicate logic statement without putting arrows, or anything, to show what corrections he made. Not good.

Mina Nicola wrote out the parts with the errors, and then made a point of listing each correction separately. Well done.

Shrouk Moataz put arrows on the corrections and labelled them "error" - good enough.

- Going back to the dialogue question, many of you accepted the hypothesis and started to explain on that basis. E.g., "Q is programmed so that when it finds that P is not sure, it asks him 'why are you not sure?'" Here, the student assumed that Q is a computer already. But the question asks you to show evidence that Q is a computer.  Many of you started with the hypothesis as if it is already proven. Say something like: it is likely that when Q replied to P's 'might' with 'why are you not sure', Q had not understood, or chosen to ignore, the content of P's statement. Such behaviour is typical of an automaton, unless if Q is an uncooperative human being.

- Also in the dialogue question, many of you said things like "a computer cannot feel", "a computer cannot think", but computers can be programmed to say I feel, I think, so go deeper.

- I was very disappointed to find that many of you thought this was an example of inductive reasoning. Wrong!

Premise: All philosophy majors are quiet.
Premise: Nageeba is a philosophy major.
Conclusion: Nageeba is quiet.

- Please improve your grammar.

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