Week 2: Journal Questions
- Briefly (3-5 sentences) explain an example of a problem
from your own experience where a large branching factor
prevented you from finding a good solution efficiently.
- Russell and Norvig state: "In general, iterative deepening
is the preferred uninformed search method when the search
space is large and the depth of the solution is not known"
(p. 90). Identify the sentence from the reading that you
believe best supports this claim. Briefly (3-5 sentences)
explain your choice.
- Select the sentence or short passage (no more than three
sentences, please) that you find most interesting or
provocative. Briefly (3-5 sentences) explain why you selected
this particular sentence or short passage.
- Identify the sentence, section, or concept from today's
reading that remains the most confusing to you. Briefly (3-5
sentences) explain what you find confusing about it.