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Day 11: Dr. Schuman

 Guest Speaker: Dr. Schuman

Today we got firsthand experience in creating data for a machine learning activity. We visited a site where we were able to feed information through series of pictures of either a facial expression, a hand signal, or certain objects. With this information, our machine was able to learn what traits were associated with certain items through an accumulation of mathematical formulas. Additionally we also got to play with an app that learned from other people's drawings and was able to complete our drawings and portray certain prompts (such as dog, cat, mermaid, lighthouse etc).  Overall it was an engaging experience that allowed us to learn about machine learning data and experience collecting data ourselves. 

Pictured: Training Data of My Classmate

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