Daily Review

  • 4/8/2025 (Tuesday)
    • Auto-Encoders!
    • Side quest: Check out my app here for turning in Java code. Log in with your credentials for class and submit to the Binary Tree assignment. If you need a file to submit, here’s one that should work
    • Assignment: Create an auto-encoder for the Fashion MNIST dataset. If you get that working, add noise or dropout to the input images and see how well it reconstructs.
  • 4/10/2025 (Thursday)
    • Notes on genetic algorithms and symbolic regression
    • Social Hour
  • Spring Break
  • 4/21/2025 (monday)
    • Help me test javadrop.io by going to javadrop.io or the same thing here
    • Research topics
      • Make a copy of this research notebook template in your own google drive
      • Discuss current research ideas and begin to fill out research plan
      • Do some background research. Find 10 relevant papers and add them to Zotero
      • (I think you downloaded Zotero a while ago?)
      • Begin work on annotated bibliography
  • 4/23/2025 (Wednesday)
  • 4/25/2025 (Friday)
    • Relativistic dynamics of space near a black hole
    • Hawking radiation
    • Homework: Can information be destroyed by a gravitational singularity?
  • 4/29 (Tuesday)
    • Variational Autoencoders
    • See notes and code here
    • Implement solutions in colab or jupyter, etc.
    • here’s a fix
  • 5/5 (Monday)
    • Generative Adversarial Networks
    • Code up solution from handout and generate Fashion MNIST data
    • Note: the provided code is not compatible with Keras 3! Here’s a fix
  • 5/7 (Wednesday)
    • Continue GANs
    • Fix code from last class
    • Implement a Deep Convolutional GAN solution to “FaceGAN”
    • Find your own face data. There are HUGE databases but I’m using 10,000 images of size 256x256 on the 4090 and that’s pretty much a reasonable size. So don’t get too much. Here’s some helper code to wrangle your data into folders
  • 5/9 (Friday)
    • AP something. APUSH?
  • 5/11 (Tuesday)
  • 5/13 (Thursday)
  • 5/28 (Wednesday)
    • Special visitor!
    • Turn in research proposals
  • 5/30 (Friday)
    • Review research proposals
    • Talk about informal presentation