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You may have heard about the recent news about Toyota's unwanted acceleration problems. Have you wondered what may have caused it? Have you ever gotten in the shower and turned on the hot water, only to find that the water goes from cold to WAY TOO HOT? At which point you turn down the hot water and find yourself FREEZING? And eventually you made the water settle down to a comfortable temperature? If so, you've been in your own control loop! This class will provide examples of many more control loops, and answer many questions. What is the science behind modern control systems? What is the math behind the theory? Why should I care?

An alternative title was: "G33K W4RS!!!1" In this wacky new class idea (conceived at 2:10am), two teams of Stanford engineers will face off in the geekiest contest yet. And all the while, you'll learn something too! You, the audience, will be charged with bringing questions related to how things work to ask them. One team will explain how one thing/concept works, and then the other team will explain how another thing/concept works. It is then up to the audience to be the judge of who explained the concept better. The team with the most points at the end of 2 hours will win! Who will reign victorious? And who would go home with -5 nerd cred? Come find out... in THINGS ABOUT STUFF!

On the surface, probability is simple, usually requiring little numerical computation and memorization of only a few rules. But the way it is applied to specific situations can give rise to some contradictory interpretations. How can you win by losing? Make a game that would be worth any price to play? Keep changing your choices but never reach the better one? Create the downfall of democratic voting? We will look at these problems (and more) and see if we can resolve the paradoxes.

On the surface, probability is simple, usually requiring little numerical computation and memorization of only a few rules. But the way it is applied to specific situations can give rise to some contradictory interpretations. How can you win by losing? Make a game that would be worth any price to play? Keep changing your choices but never reach the better one? Create the downfall of democratic voting? We will look at these problems (and more) and see if we can resolve the paradoxes.

Filtering is used everywhere in audio and video processing. Undoubtedly without it, very few applications would function correctly. Although signal processing and filtering are topics that involve great quantities of theoretical background, mainly the mathematical domain, in real world situations, some of this theory is invalid. We will talk about the uses of filtering and discuss the problems in directly using theory to make designs. Additionally, we will look into the partial resolution of these issues.

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What are the most common answers on exams? 0, 1, and pi. Here, we'll look at assorted problems that unexpectedly ...