Please answer ONE question, providing evidence for the argument you make, in about 250 words. Discuss the goals Cleopatra likely had and the means she deployed in her attempt to achieve them. What was ultimately at stake during the wars involving Egypt at the end of the Roman Republic?  How did the status and position of Roman women change from the early Republic to the late Empire? Why did the Roman Republic fall, to be replaced by an Empire? Discuss some of the tenants of Epicureanism and Stoicism, while accounting for their appeal to different groups in Rome. Discuss the religious landscape in Israel on the eve of the birth of Jesus. What forces and figures contributed to Rome’s expansion from a city-state to a Mediterranean power? What social and economic problems did Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus attempt to address? What did their their fates suggest about the Republic… and its capacity for reform? Which of their ideas, if any, were implemented or expanded during the Empire?  What do the life and writings of St. Augustine reveal about the late Roman / early Christian mind? 

How often would you flush the tube, and how much water would you deliver with each flush?

A company that designs tractors wants to analyze thousands of customer messages to discover opportunities for improving their products.  They do not have predefined “opportunity” categories but want to uncover patterns in the data.  Which technique should they use?

Untutored in philosophy, Alexander the Great excelled as an empire builder. 

How much free water will this provide? 

BONUS (+5 points): In lecture 5, we discussed the different types of word embeddings, Frequency based and Prediction based. Which of the following fall under the Prediction Based Embeddings? Select all that apply.

In LDA, what are topics?

What is the main output of LDA?

In LDA, the number of topics (K) is automatically determined by the model and does not need to be manually specified.

Which of the following is the primary output of a “bag of words” model?