The course feedback can be seen on the course webpage. There were eight respondents, and the average overall grade was 3,75 / 5, which is good. The topics and the projects were considered interesting and beneficial, and people were pleased with the teaching. The course was considered too easy for five credits, and the general sloppiness was critizised. No surprises! I was especially pleased with the last comment to question 6. The answers to questions 7 and 8 were constructive and will certainly help in improving the course next year.

Once again a big thanks to everyone! The credits for the course should have appeared, or will appear today.

The credits have been sent forward. They should appear in the register during next week.

At some point I said that answering the questionnaire is required for passing. That's not true, but if you are among the passers and don't answer the questionnaire (it closes next Thursday), I will impose bad karma on you.

The normalizing constant has been corrected in the week 4 lectures.

A minor loose end: I never actually showed the conjecture that I mentioned during the last lecture. It is found in http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.3752.pdf on page 17, Remark 3.8.

A big thanks to everyone that attended, and also to the people at the department! This course was my dream come true. I will probably post some comments on the feedback when I see it a week from now. Have a good summer!

This time no video, only serious business. We have two more weeks of lectures / exercises before the projects. Here's what I try to accomplish during the lectures:

• Tue: Complete the uniform case
• Wed & Tue: Countably infinite juggling Markov chains (remove the throw height bound)
• Wed: Scale the process from discrete to continuous (whatever that means, we'll see).

About the projects. Here's what I expect from the presentations (I will talk with the code people separately):

• Clear notes (about 4-5 pages depending on text size)
• Practice your presentation!

One lecture (45 minutes) is a very short time. For example, take a look at my notes. They are usually 6-8 pages per 90 minutes. My style is relatively slow, but anyway. If you want to be clear, you have to think quite carefully about what to say. People often run out of time in their talks, which can become rather awkward. The bottom line is that writing notes is not enough, you should also spend some time experimenting with how long it really takes to explain things. For example, go through the first planned 15 minutes by talking aloud and imagining the real situation. When you can do it calmly in 12 minutes, then you are ready for the real thing. Thereafter make sure that you can similarly do the rest of the presentation too.