What did you do this past week? This past week was perhaps the busiest week of my semester. For my neural network class, we were assigned a group final project, but I decided to do it by myself. I thought, “How hard could it be?”. Well, it turned out to…

What did you do this past week? This past week, I worked on my neural networks assignment, and I started studying self-attention and Transformers. I studied Transformers last semester as part of my NLP class, but I must admit that I did not fully understand how they work. I still…

What did you do this past week? This past week, I started working on my final project for my Neural Networks class. I am using AlexNet (a convolutional neural network) with pre-training to predict the origin and type of musical instrument. This project would have been relatively impossible if I…

What did you do this past week? This past week, I spent the majority of my time working on RNNs with PyTorch. I also learned how Hopfield networks learn. For my software engineering class, I learned more about relational algebra. This is the first time I have ever formally learned…

What did you do this past week? This week, I completed stage two of GerryMap with my software engineering group. I started using Kaggle to practice implementing Neural Networks. I am quite impressed with Kaggle as a tool to learn. Kaggle allows you to write code in a notebook similar to…

What did you do this past week? For software engineering, I found and implemented a new way to collect photos of all politicians faces for GerryMap.com. While my initial method of collecting politician faces successfully got URLs for all politicians, I noticed almost 50% of these URLs no longer worked…

What did you do this past week? This past week, I spent a lot of time working on the gerrymandering project. I refined the data collection code to organize the data into three unique databases. For my Software Engineering (SWE) class, I also spent time learning different Python modules for…

What did you do this past week? This week, I was responsible for data collection and organization for our gerrymandering identification project. I spent a lot of time implementing four different API classes. The Google APIs were easy to use thanks to great design and documentation, however, it took me significantly…

What did you do this past week? This past week, I spent a lot of time deciding what project to work on for CS373. I was hoping to create a website that is unique and useful. I proposed the idea of making our group project be a project to identify…