Today my group went on the
Monmouth Junior Science Symposium (
MJSS) trip. Of the many interesting presentations, I was especially intrigued by the one on automatic identification of brain cancers. Before this presentation, I had never heard of using hyper-planes for classification. Now, as I am thinking back, I wish I would have asked the presenter why he selected that type of classification algorithm. Why did he choose to test classification by hyper-plane - why not use a decision tree or recursive neural network? I believe he had a number of options and it would be interesting to hear about his decision process for selecting that classification method.
In addition to the scientific presentations, there were other interesting parts of the day. During lunch we played
Brain it On! - a challenging game where you draw shapes to solve physics puzzles. We were very focused on quickly drawing our shapes before time ran out, when suddenly someone's ITR sheet flew off a table and was blown skyward. It drifted from side to side in the air, seeming as if it was going to land on the roof. As it swooped down, brushing the concrete, I quickly pinned it to the ground with my phone. Its owner was grateful for my save, as it would have been bad if it shot back up and was lost on the
Monmouth University campus forever.
GCC is a robust compiler used for most
Linux code not written in an interpretive language. It has support for a wide variety of languages and CPU architectures, some of which are not mainline. Many may know that it supports
C and
C++, but it also has lesser known support for
D,
Java,
Fortran,
Go,
Ada and
VHDL.
GCC is also compatible with a wide variety of CPU architectures - from the boring old
x86 to the 112 data operation/clock/core
FR1000 (
FR-V).
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