CS7IS2: Artificial Intelligence Group Project

Repositories:

• https://github.com/ai-msceteers/assignment2
• https://github.com/ai-msceteers/DeepCubeA

See readme.txt for more information on the group and the project's repositories.

The minutes of each group meeting are kept in reverse chronological order in the file minutes.md.

Auxiliary notes for the project are kept in the file notes.md.

Documentation

Presentation

The slides for the presentation are in doc/presentation.pdf, and their source in doc/presentation.tex. A link to the video recording of the presentation, accessible by TCD accounts, is included in the project report.

Report

The output of this project is the technical report doc/report.pdf. Its source can be found in the file doc/report.tex, which follows the given template in resources/author.tex. The Biblatex bibliography database for all documentation is in doc/rubik.bib.

Template

The resources/author.tex template is distributed with the Springer-Verlag TeX bundle resources/ProcSci_TeX.zip. It requires installing the included svproc.cls document class in the standard TeX inputs locations, or in the same directory as the TeX document using it.

Requirements

• This project prefers the more modern biblatex and biber bibliography tools and dialects over their still traditional BibTeX counterparts. The former include more and better-formatted styles OOTB, and have better Unicode support. The main reason to prefer the latter is when conforming to a style that requires it.

• The report is encoded in UTF-8, which requires a modern TeX engine such as LuaTeX (recommended) or XeTeX (untested), both of which are included in the standard TeX Live distribution.

Recommendations

• Automate your LaTeX compilations using a tool such as latexmk. It is particularly helpful in later stages of the writeup when cross-references and bibliographies are involved.

  To configure latexmk to use LuaLaTeX, for example, add the following to your ~/.latexmkrc file:

  # Use LuaLaTeX
  $pdf_mode = 4;

  Then to compile the document report.tex, just run latexmk report.tex.

• The minted package makes it easy to include beautifully syntax-highlighted code listings.

  When compiling documents that use minted, it is important to specify the LaTeX command-line option --shell-escape. Using the latexmk example from above, the resulting command would be latexmk --shell-escape report.tex.

• The booktabs package documentation includes a nice primer for typesetting beautiful tables, and the ctable package provides a flexible interface.