CS 371p Fall 2020: Kent Hansen #9

1. What did you do this past week?

This past week I finished up working on Project 3 with my partner and began looking into the specifications for Project 4.

2. What’s in your way?

For the next project, I need to decide whether I should find a partner or work on it alone in order to have some more flexibility with my schedule. I want to also look at the problem in more detail to figure out how to get started.

3. What will you do next week?

Next week I will get to work on the project, probably on Monday to allow myself enough time to finish. I will also work out a schedule for how frequently and how much time I want to allot to the project so that I can stay on top of it in addition to my other commitments.

4. If you read it, what did you think of Ethical CS?

I did not read Ethical CS this week because I have a particularly busy workload but I hope to go back and look through the slides when I have time because the topic is very important to consider and I am interested in how philosophy is applied to Computer Science.

5 .What was your experience of lambdas, initializations, std::initializer_list, and std::vector? (this question will vary, week to week)

I was surprised to learn about lambdas in C++ because I did not know that it had functional programming capabilities. I’m looking forward to learning more about how to use lambdas in effective ways. Learning about initializer lists and vectors was a good refresher on how to build containers as it has been a while since we covered it in 314.

6. What made you happy this week?

This week I’ve been trying to get back into the habit of running because I had stopped for so long and I had forgotten how much I enjoyed it.

7. What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?

This week I was trying to learn a bit more about machine learning for my job and came across a tool called SciTime that allows you to build machine learning models specifically for time series data. I want to look into the tool more to see if it can be useful for the task I’m trying to accomplish.