Visual Accompaniment (must click)
These cats can code! Khuzaima quickly showed me that he is more proficient in command line than I am in English. I was simultaneously impressed and taken aback. Then explaining his work, he really professed his expertise.
Khuzaima currently focuses on self-driving technology through imitation and reinforcement learning. He spent much of the afternoon explaining these terms to me. Afterwards, I knew significantly more but still, pathetically little in the grand scheme of things, though due in no part whatsoever to his teaching. Khuzaima’s patience is equally admirable.
In the afternoon, he let me take a test drive of the scaled down cart. After some playing around, he demonstrated the “Autopilot” feature, acknowledging that it has some kinks (see the above video) to work out. Nonetheless, I was fascinated.
On top of the automatization research, he gave me a taste of his other big project, and I was hooked. His algorithm uses crowd-sourced consensus to identify Twitter posts deemed as propaganda. Such a program has many applications, and represents how data can be used to improve online applications. So be warned, you Tweeters, Khuzaima’s coming for you!