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The Implementation Stage
A bulk of my time this quarter has been dedicated to understanding the core components of my project. Between reading papers on different aspects of machine learning, reading documentation for libraries used for audio processing, and writing small portions of code for prototype purposes, my team and I have reached the stage in the project…
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Importance of Subject Knowledge
When I first started my computer science degree just over a year and a half ago, some of the biggest hurdles I had to overcome involved just reading and writing code. Things like knowing what methods I can call on an array, figuring out what that error I keep getting even means, and for the…
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Understanding Audio
Considering the project I’ve chosen is called “Top-n Music Genre Classification Neural Network,” dealing with audio data in one way or another was a given. In the last week, my team members and I have gotten started on the initial tasks of the project which typically involved research, mainly on machine learning and-as suggested by…
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Machine Learning & My Project
Before I ever started programming, artificial intelligence was something that always intrigued me. I remember learning about Deep Blue and more recently, AlphaGo, both of which were programs notable for defeating the best players in their respective board games: Chess and Go. One statement regarding AlphaGo that stood out to me revolved around the fact…
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My Introduction (and Reintroduction) to Tech, Part I
I’ve always had an interest in technology. I was born in the heart of Silicon Valley in the late 90s so from the get-go I was surrounded by computers, software, and the like. Even though I only spent the first five or so years of my life there before moving to the Pacific Northwest, there…