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A.I. Symposium Response

 The symposium started with a presentation from Dr. Abouzahra. It mentioned some of the possible applications of A.I. in healthcare. However, he also listed some of the challenges. One challenge that resonated with me was the need for several countries with different demographics, diets, habits, etc. to combine data for better performance of A.I. tools. Particularly when it comes to diet, I feel U.S. doctors make well-meaning assumptions about the healthiness of traditional ethnic diets without knowing how healthy they really can be (with the right choices and proportions like any other diet). Dr. Abouzahra also demonstrated how A.I. responses can be tailored in language and tone for the end-user (for patients or doctors for example). Dr. Hsu’s presentation was about how A.I. tools can help meet the challenges of an aging demographic and short supply of health practitioners in many countries. I thought it was interesting to hear his example about how eye exams performed with the he...
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Week 16

I just finished looking through some of my oldest journals. It brought back memories from OLI's lessons on teamwork. Those lessons turned out to be very useful when working on team projects. I feel it boils down to promoting synergy within the group ahead of the goals of each individual. I'm glad that team projects were a component of every course in the program. The entries about things I was learning each week were the most interesting to me. I never really kept a regular journal before, not even a personal one. But I think I now see why people enjoy it. When we learn something new, as time goes on we lose track of what we felt when it was first introduced to us. For example, this makes me wish I could read through all the journal entries I had to write in elementary school as a kid. I'm glad I now have the opportunity to do that when reflecting on CS concepts I learned throughout this program. As far as the program itself, I'm extremely satisfied with my experience s...
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Week 15

Since last Tuesday, we met with our advisor Professor Tao (on Thursday) and provided him an update on our status. We also gave him a demo of the features we worked on. By that point I had already pushed my final coding changes to our team's repository. This week I worked on our presentation. I created our initial slides and a script based on our teams presentation outline. I recorded myself narrating over all the slides. I also recorded my interactions as a user with our project's main features so it can be included as our demo in our presentation. I used video editing software to put several clips together and trimmed down the time to fit the requirement as close as possible. It was fun working on video editing. I used iMovie which comes free with Macs. I'm still fairly new to it. For past presentations (for other courses) I would narrate over slides in one shot and then do a demo live in the same recording. I wish I had known how much easier the process can be with a bit ...
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Week 14

During week 14 I closed in finishing the Simkl integration. I created React components on the frontend. I added additional rate limits on requests sent form out app to Simkl's api to make sure we stayed within the limits outlined in Simkl's docs. I also pushed fixes to an earlier commit because their was a mismatch in the data we were expecting from a public API. I'm using Simkl's API to request our user's movie watchlist items and ratings (movies they rated within their Simkl account). I read through Simkl's docs again and realized I was pulling items into a response that we ddin't need. So I made a fix to an earlier commit. The plan next week is to finish the Simkl integration and start work on the randomization feature for the playlist page. No challenges at the moment. I had a Docker/permissions issue that didn't let me run the app locally for a while, but I was able to figure it out on my own and get that going again. No need for assistance at this ...
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Week 13

For week 13, I worked on the backend for our Simkl integration. I created routes to make requests from Simkl's public API which should return our user's watchlist movies and ratings from their account. I also created Simkl tasks which are called from within our Simkl routes. The tasks process data included in responses from Simkl, and run SQL queries to request our own user data, compare it to the data coming from Simkl's public API, and update our database accordingly. I added functions to our frontend api.js file which will be called to send requests to our flask backend Simkl routes. The plan for next week is to have the backend part of the integration done, and to create our Simkl frontend React components and helper functions within those files. These functions will connect with the functions in our api.js file mentioned above. No challenges this week. No instructor assistance is needed at this point.
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Week 12

Had to help take care of a family member this week, so haven't had enough time to get started coding on the Simkl integration like I planned. So for now, I'm focusing on continuing to review the current codebase where I'll be making changes. I'll be adding features on an existing project, and many files have hundreds of lines of code already. I think it will be good to take a closer look at how the current backend works to make sure my future changes don't break anything. The plan for next week is tentative depending on how my mom feels. Hopefully I can start coding. No challenges development wise. Still taking care of my mom this week, so that's taking up my time right now. No instructor assistance needed at this time.
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Week 11

This week during our group meeting, we decided to have Nathan work on the AI features (LlamaIndex, RAG, etc.). He has a head start with these technologies since he recently started working on something similar at work (he's a full-time software engineer). Duy and I will be working on integrations with external services, and other requested UI features. I'll be working on the Simkl integration myself. Simkl is a service that helps users track what they're watching. It's fairly popular, and has an API that can help us synchronize our users data with data their Simkl account. Currently I started reading through Simkl's API and looking at existing integrations to see what I'll need to create to add this feature. I started writing some of the model fields we will need (to keep track of what movies are Simkl imports). The plan for next week is to start coding on the rest. No challenges coding wise, but my mom had surgery this week. She had mobility issues before so sh...
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