Recurse Center - Batch 2 - Cycle 20241008-202410010 - Convolution


Convolution

Another cycle that was motly focused on ARENA plus working through the Neural Networks from Scratch book.

Day 1

Today was Impossible Day at RC, so I started by finishing Chapter 5 in NNFS and then worked through translating this tutorial on building an ASR system with a Transformer model from Keras to PyTorch. I got it mostly done, but wasn't able to get it running on Heap due to some issues with Heap's Python environment. Something to work through on another day :)

A fellow Recurser also presented on FFTs and showed off their guitar tuner written in C!

Day 2

Today was the start of working on Convolutional Neural Networks

And then I wrapped up finishing Chapter 6 in NNFS

Day 3:

This morning a fellow Recurser introduced me to Piper, a text-to-speech program that can run on a Raspberry Pi. Something to look into and play with!

In our ARENA check-in call, we talked about the following projects:

Today I continued working on CNNs and encounted the followint topics:

Things for next cycle