Introduction In this article I will discuss the ethical and moral aspects of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN's). I argue that, although these ANN's are incredible and powerful tools, they require careful thought to mitigate the risk of the negative ethical consequences that easily and unexpectedly arise. What is an Artificial Neural Network? An artificial neural … Continue reading Ethics of Artificial Neural Networks

  A friend (Kelvin) and I are trying to get positions in Steve Mann's lab. His interview process involves a "jam" session where the interviewee(s) must make something with Dr. Mann and company in one afternoon/night that impresses them. This is an account/log of the work that has gone into that. The Idea We need to … Continue reading Mann Lab Jam: The 12-Hour Interview

I had the privilege of working with Eli Scott, Helen Newton, and Adam Carnaffan (all EngSci 2T2) at MakeUofT 2019, the largest makeathon in Canada, to actualize our idea of playing the orchestra. We created a product that allows a user to 'play' a live orchestra in real-time via a MIDI keyboard. The system takes … Continue reading Play the Orchestra: MakeUofT 2019 Project

Read the paper here. In this research project, I determined that it is, in fact, possible to predict a student's level of interest in a given educational activity based on brain scan readings alone. To come to this conclusion, I bought an EEG scanner, recruited a group of students to read various articles while having their … Continue reading Predicting Student Engagement with EEG and Machine Learning

See the GitHub repository for this project here. A short YouTube video I made to advertise the software: During my time in formal education, I have helped a lot of people with math. During this time, I've noticed a few things. Most importantly, I noticed that the most discouraging thing for a student to feel is … Continue reading Optimum: A Mathematics Education Tool

Evolutionary Programming: Ship Course Plotter See the GitHub for this project here. When I was first starting to hear about Machine Learning and AI, evolutionary programming always came up. Even though evolution is a rather slow optimization strategy, it's a lot better than no optimization strategy, and I think it's a great way to be … Continue reading Project: Ship Course Plotter Genetic Algorithm

Hackathons; The seed for this post was initially planted during the 2018 CIBC Machine Intelligence Hackathon. Ever since learning about hackathons, I’ve been interested in participating in one as I have a tendency to attempt too many long-term projects at once. I enjoy the focus and clarity that hackathons give. In the hackathon, we were … Continue reading Approaches to Teaching Programming: Engineering vs. Computer Science