2020(S08) Lecture:week 9  From OpenWetWare  Jump to: navigation,
search   Week 9 Tuesday  “Faith is a poor substitute for reason”
Thomas Jefferson  As you hone in on the details of your
projects, your team should plan ways to validate the system's
operation and ways to learn from its glitches. We have two quick
challenges for you today. The first illustrates that even the
"best" answers you can offer that are consistent with all
available data remain tentative, that the answer is either
strengthened or revised by additional data and that all
interpretations are subject to personal biases, human values and
the various ways we all think about the world. The second
challenge puts you midstream in a flawed design and requires
that you consider the modes of failure to debug/troubleshoot the
problem. We will spend only 20 minutes on these challenges and
then you and your team can use the rest of today's lecture time
to prepare for tomorrow's Tech Spec Review.Please plan to arrive
at 2PM for tomorrow's presentations