Intern Blog Postings

Week 3: The ACP Balcony

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Matangi Melpakkam

For the past few weeks, I have been telling all my coworkers how cold I get in the ACP building. This week, I realized it may be a blessing in disguise. I spent all of Thursday working on the third floor balcony, and I love it! It has a great chair and is warm without being under the sun.

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Ben Johnson

Week 3: Neural Networks and Punk Rock

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Benjamin Johnson

This week, I continued my experiment on the various methods we can implement to train a Reservoir Computer (RC).  On Monday, I moved on from the first training technique (output matrix averaging) to the second technique: passing the mu value from the Van der Pol system directly into the RC as an

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Week 3: The Cast of Finding Nemo

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Janessa Slone

The DNCE concert at the Pride Festival was amazing! Seeing Joe Jonas in person (and for free) was so cool.

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Week 3: To Infinity and Beyond!

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Anthony Olguin

This week I spent most of my time at work recreating a graph from a paper assigned by my mentor. I spent many hours looking through 12 other papers and finding the data points the author used to make my own version of the figure. It was relatively successful, but a few points were not lining up.

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Week 3: Music & Data Collection

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Valeria Viteri-Pflucker

This week I was working in the lab collecting data. Last week I mentioned the new Hyper Spectral microscope, which is what I used for my data collection.

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Week 3: solve your star field in SECONDS with this cool trick!!! computers hATE HER!!!!

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Nicole Leung

Once again, I made food for the week on Sunday. I used my leftover ingredients from last week to make pasta, as well as a stir fry with meat, tofu, and mixed vegetables to go over rice. I also got a pesto sauce and an eggplant-garlic-red pepper sauce to add to my sandwiches at work.

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Week 3: Dance Dance Revolution!

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Justin Andre Avendaño

This week was an amazing week for the music nerd in me! From going to a club that plays different music from different decades, to an orchestra that plays contemporary american orchestral music! A few days ago we went to a dance club called: Decades and it was an experience to remember!

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Week 3: Filled with Music

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Saksham Prajapati

This week, at my work, we discussed our project idea with the web development team, and they picked up some issue so we might not be able to finish our automated project for this fall. But we are still listing out ideas and going through the issues to find solutions.

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Gizem Dogan

Week 3: Le Diplomate, Orchestra Concert, 1st Update Draft, Clean up Lunch, Comedy Club, Nats Game

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Gizem Dogan

Third week in DC and I've completed my full transformation into a Nats fan.

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