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IQuHack 2022

I managed to attend a hackathon and I actually contributed!

I helped with the idea, some part of the python and qiskit coding(my knowledge was quite basic, I realized) and mostly formatting and presentation.

Most of the submissions implemented algorithms into their games which would be interesting if I could understand what they were saying. 

BESIDES, I had fun learning(even if I was super stressed occasionally) and I understand how much I need to learn in order to implement anything on code. 

Sure I can define functions and classes. Sure, I can apply gates to quantum circuits too. However, I was pretty confused on how I would be able to implement certain things with the skills I currently have. 

Algorithms are something I need to understand in order to understand machine learning and subsequently QML. So I’ll probably try to implement a program that can recommend songs based on previous history(its something I’ve wanted to do for a while but of course I need to learn first) 

The hackathon did teach me a lot when it comes to working on projects but I would like to contribute more in the future.

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Masterpost

Machine Learning Basics Explained

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Azure Jupyter Notebook setup (last ten mins)

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Small Progress Update :)

I managed to read (and understand!) this post about the basics of machine learning. It feels nice to finally get started somewhere without feeling overwhelmed. On another note, dimensionality reduction and a CNN might be what I need for the project I'm planning on making. yuh:)

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it's been nearly a month and I am learning python but I also feel like I'm getting nowhere WHICH IS AWFUL so I definitely need to figure out why I started learning this and what kinda of project I want to do

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Project One: Bot

In the process of coding a music bot. The basic controls are done but the main part ( which is playing music💿) needs to be worked on.

The play command will allow for searching a song which will then be added into the queue

Queue definitely needs to be an array and I need to add a queue command which should include displaying the queue.

Commands such as next song, volume, leave after 'x' amount of time need to be added but I just wanted to start the basic bot commands for now.

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Starting Out

Hello:)

I started this blog to keep track of my coding progress. In the next couple of months, Python is going to be the main focus mainly because I want to learn Qiskit and from what I’ve read the base language for Qiskit is Python (!need to learn classical computing before jumping into quantum computing!!)

On another note, I finally figured out why the websites would default to Helvetica Neue (ALMOST INDECIPHERABLE). All because I installed Helvetica Neue for Photoshop and that managed to get set up as my default web layout font :/

Back to Python, I’ve started going through Python Principles which I should finish soon (on while loops rn) after which I will begin looking through Learn Python the Hard Way. 

ALSO, I initially installed Notepad++ but the indentation settings pissed me off so Pycharm it is! (Colors are amazing as well as the indentations, super sexc).

I’ll post an update next week!