Welcome to Earlham CS Senior Capstone Experience.

Read the papers and summarized them. I am leaning more towards the gesture control system idea, but at the moment it seems like I keep finding more and more challenges to overcome with this project. Typing with gestures may not … Read More

For my senior project, I’m working on optimizing the performance of qw, an AI Agent developed to play (and sometimes win) the game of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. To reduce the search space and make optimization with machine learning faster, … Read More

My project ideas have been evolving since starting to research articles. My main fields of research have been in audiovisual synthesis, motion control for virtual instruments, and algorithmic music composition. I have found lots of articles including a good one … Read More

Met with Andy Moore and talked about projects regarding natural disasters. Realized that many of the ideas were too big for a semester, and started researching in Earthquake Early Warning systems Worked on Quiz 2, and collected papers for each … Read More

Realized two of my ideas don’t really work at all and so I need to search for new ones Learned that I really need to work on something I’m interested in because if I’m not it’s going to be hell … Read More

Have found a working software for my Virtual Machines and the blockchain program to run on them, was harder to find than I thought it would be. I have my timeline finished and solidified thanks to my talk with Ajit, … Read More

I spent the past week reading related papers to my three ideas. It helped me gain a better understanding of the scope and challenges associated with each potential project. I also met with Ajit and discussed the projects. I believe … Read More

I finished making an additional data visualization — a Sankey diagram this week. I looked into NVDA’s built-in logging system and decided I didn’t want to use it to create my logs because it includes — even at the bare … Read More

This past week: Looked into the SKL issue; I now understand what’s happening. Had to change a few things – LabelPropagation only accepts numpy arrays When making the pipeline as a structure, I need to do it differently than what … Read More

Completed corpus creation. Filter the dataset and collecting data from Facebook. Automated process using pyspark. Reduced 40GB file to 9 GB and needed to be cleaned for machine learning processing.

Worked with setting up sci-kit learn and testing environment. Got Craig to give me access to Pollock and Bronte.

Read the papers about how to read a paper. Met with Michael Lerner regarding one of the strategies talked about in his research last year. Found 5-7 papers related to each of the three topic areas. Attempted the Quiz 1 … Read More

Met with my advisor twice, worked on an updated timeline. Worked out a design framework and prepared the presentation slides.

This week, I decided to change my first project (soccer coaching tool) and do something different. I haven’t really thought to utilize my knowledge I’ve gained from classes and I want to do some type of AI or ML project. … Read More

This week I revised my proposal, framework and timeline. These revisions are summed up in my presentation for this week (slides can be found here).

-I met with Kendall to get my ACM membership -I continued refining my ideas. -I talked with music professor Forrest Tobey about my ideas and projects that the music department is interested in.