Hello friends

So, it has been a few days since I last posted. I am currently trying to post on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (obviously I failed this week) to give me more ideas to write about. So, let’s break down the past few days.

Tuesday

Today we had Craft of Research on plagiarism. I didn’t realize how many different ways you could plagiarize. Most time I think it is taking exact phrases from test, but you must also give the authors reference for ideas. I mean I have done this while I write, but I never actively though about it.

After that we had another Luncheon Lecture with Holly Oberbroeckling who was a previous REU intern. She gave a lot of insight and advice when it come to the program. One was about how the program was only 10 weeks, and research takes a long time. She explained how it is important to remember this and that it is alright if we need to scale back out final product. This something I have a hard time with because I want to meet and sometimes exceed the level we are given, but I have gotten better at admitting failures.

We also met with Aron and talked about what we need to do for the research project. We wanted to get a better grasp on where we should be at for the project milestones. In adding we were looking at how to process the data we get from the EEG using MATLAB. We already have some prebuilt functions, so it won’t be too bad.

Wednesday

Today we were on the machine learning grind. At the beginning of the day, we were working on creating our data pipeline and getting the data onto our computers. We are using a CNN model for our self-driving car. Once we had the model functions, we could start trying to train the model. Let’s just say computer is going to hate me as it is maxing out on RAM and is going pretty slow. Hopefully I’ll get to train me model.

That’s all folks,

Sophie