MATH 490 Capstone Notes and Updates

• Met with Dr. McGuirk, talked more about finalizing talks.
• Looking into conferences and symposiums
• AI Summit in New York (December 11-12, 2024) $30
• Honestly after looking through this stuff, I looked through NYU, Columbia, and just locally, theres not many to go to in a 3 month span. All of them require a good bit of money.
• I think I will set up an event at the school, and invite faculty and students to come purely for lecturing practice. I will flesh out this talk as I go, but I'm leaning towards talking about a PCA analysis, and using League gameplay data to do it. Depending on how far along in my Neural Network progress I get, maybe a brief prototype

• What am I working on?
• Book that I'm following: Neural Networks Chapter 1
• What did I work on for the week: Learning about GANS (Generative Adversarial Networks) The original GAN paper
• Working on a proof of concept having a neural network to recognize handwritten digits.
• Also working on writing up Paolo Gasti's machine learning algorithm linked below.

• Homework
• Finish reading through Paolo Gasti's Paper and develop some prototype of the algorithm
• Reading about alphas and degrading, Black-Scholz, Stone-Weirstrauss theorem, and the Alignment Problem.
• Develop prototype with 4-output neural network to recognize handwritten digits
• Problems about distributions and probability theory
• Make powerpoints for a talk, and flesh out my progress in short talks to give Dr. Katsnelson and Dr. Roy