Here I am, back at it again because I’m not coding enough this semester. Let’s get right into it:
I plan on going to graduate school for a masters in computer science, and ya boi needs to get better at research. I know what my research interests are, and I thought I would do something with that.
I want to do an in-depth survey of process synchronization. Operating Systems is one of my all-time favorite computer science topics (and my #1 research interest), and I plan on doing my undergraduate thesis on some topic in concurrent programming. With that said, I want to see what are the pros and cons of each method used for synchronization and how they stand up using various metrics, whether it be binary locks, condition variables, etc. And personally, I feel there’s a better way than busy waiting.
I also want to do a machine learning project. I’m currently in a machine learning course now with material from Stanford Engineering Everywhere ( https://see.stanford.edu/Course/CS229 ), but I can’t learn without examples. So I want to make a program that learns something. I don’t know what it’s learning or how it’s learning it yet, but I want to make a program learn. Understanding the math behind it would be a plus, but we’ll see.
At the end of Apptober, I want to have measured the different ways to synchronize critical sections and have a general idea of which ones minimize on CPU usage, downtime, etc. I also want to have a program that learns something worthwhile, maybe that could solve an around-the-house problem. And of course, I want to post mostly everyday (assuming partial differential equations doesn’t kill me) with rather the information I learned or a code snippet that I wrote that day.
And by the way, if you’re reading this and want more, check out @apptober ! There’s a lot of amazing people taking this challenge this year, even more than last year, so go check out the others and spread the love!
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