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CSC 261 - Artificial Intelligence - Weinman



Answer the following questions. Record your answers in your Reading Journal.
  1. Today's reading lists several issues that can cause hill climbing to "get stuck." Select the issue that seems most problematic to you. Briefly explain why you selected that issue.
  2. Select one sentence from the reading that you feel best indicates what may be a potential problem or limitation of using simulated annealing search. Briefly explain why you selected this particular sentence.
  3. Give an example from your own experience where you had to perform something like a local search in a continuous space. Briefly explain your objective function, your notion of a gradient, and how you would decide each step size.
  4. Identify (and briefly elaborate on) the sentence, section or concept from the current reading that remains the most confusing to you.