Rice University
Instructors
Python
Mystery ???
Statistics and neural networks
100

The full meaning of ELITE in Rice ELITE Tech

What is Emerging Leaders in Technology and Engineering?

100

The instructors teaching you right now

Who are Annie and Victoria?

100

The "to the power of" symbol in Python

What is **?

100

The division of most Rice sports

What is D1?

100

The simplest AI in excel that we covered yesterday

What is a linear regression?

200
The city where Rice is located

What is Houston, Texas

200

The head instructor (spell out his full name)

Who is Dr. Millard McElwee?

200

plt.imshow("image.png")

What is the function that displays a picture

200

What fictional story Rice's housing is known after

What is "Harry Potter housing?" (residential colleges)

200

The clustering technique that classifies clusters around random cluster points, moves cluster centers to the mean of points, then reclassifies.

What is K-means clustering?

300

Reginald Desroches

Who is the President of Rice University?

300

One LI from Rice and their residential college

Who is (one of the following): Victoria (Duncan), Claire (Jones), Evan (Jones), Austin (McMurtree), Lizzy (McMurtree), Pinar (Brown)?

300

Format for an if statement

What is if (conditional): <enter tab> <code>?

300

How many water balloons Rice students fill for their annual water balloon fight (we'll give you the points if it's in the correct range)

Between 10,000 and 20,000 balloons (each bucket produces ~10 to 70 buckets!!)

300

The 3 types of layers in a neural network

What are the input layer, the hidden layers, and the output layer?

400

Rice mascot's name

Who is Sammy the Owl?

400
George Brown's residential college

What is Weiss?

400

The output of the following code:

for i in range(10):

    print(i+1)

What is 

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

400

The type of tree that primarily make up the campus inner loop (hint it arches!)

What are oak trees?

400

The function that squishes numbers to something between 0 and 1

What is an activation function?

500

4 Rice residential colleges

What are (4 of the 11): Hanszen, Duncan, McMurtree, Lovett, Baker, Brown, Martel, Sid Rich, Weiss, Will Rice, Jones?

500

The Head Instructor for this course (if y'all still don't know this it's a problem)

Who is Dr. Millard McElwee?

500

The output of the following code:

list = [1, 2, 3, 4]

if (len(list) == 3):

    print("hello")

What is nothing?

500
Rice's academic course requirements (similar to Gen Eds)

What is the distribution system?

500

The thing that the number of output neurons corresponds to

What is the number of output groups?

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