Cleaned up some old pages and uploaded some proceedings

content/notes/_index.md

@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ Chris Richters, Ethan Martin, and I embarked on the book ["Algorithms" by Jeff E
 
 Carlos Ramirez, Ethan Martin, and I started on the book "Elements of Radio" by Abraham and William Marcus. It provides a great introduction to radio not assuming an engineering background.
 
+[Notes on Dimensionality Reduction](dimensionalityreduction)
+
 ## Courses
 
 Below are the courses that I have documents up online for.

content/notes/dimensionalityreduction.md

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+---
+Title: Dimensionality Reduction 
+Description: Reducing High Dimensional Datasets to what we can digest.
+showthedate: false
+---
+
+In the Summer of 2018, another student and I started a study on Dimensionality Reduction. Sadly we became too busy a few weeks into the study. I decided to upload what we got through anyways.
+
+
+[Syllabus](syllabus)
+
+[Intro](intro)
+
+[Feature Selection](featureselection)
+
+[Optimality Criteria](optimalitycriteria)

content/notes/dimensionalityreduction/featureselection.md

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-# Feature Selection
+---
+title: Feature Selection
+---
 
 Feature selection is the process of selecting a subset of relevant features for use in model construction. The core idea is that data can contain many features that are redundant or irrelevant. Therefore, removing it will not result in much loss of information. We also wish to remove features that do not help in our goal.
 

content/notes/dimensionalityreduction/intro.md

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-# Introduction to Dimensionality Reduction
+---
+title: Introduction to Dimensionality Reduction
+---
 
 ## Motivations
 

content/notes/dimensionalityreduction/optimalitycriteria.md

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-# Optimality Criteria
+---
+title: Optimality Criteria
+---
 
 Falling under wrapper methods, optimality criterion are often used to aid in model selection. These criteria provide a measure of fit for the data to a given hypothesis. 
 

content/notes/dimensionalityreduction/syllabus.md

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-# Dimensionality Reduction Study
+---
+title: Dimensionality Reduction Independent Study Syllabus
+---
 
 Dimensionality reduction is the process of reducing the number of random variables under consideration. This study will last for 10 weeks, meeting twice a week for about an hour.
 

content/research/_index.md

@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ Description: A list of my research Projects
 
 **Broad Research Interests:** Automated Reasoning, Artificial Intelligence, Formal Methods
 
+## Logic-Based AI
+Working with [Dr. Selmer Bringsjord](https://homepages.rpi.edu/~brings/) and others in the [RAIR Lab](https://rair.cogsci.rpi.edu/) to design
+and implement artificial intelligent agents whose behavior is verifiable
+via chains of inference. More details coming soon...
+
 ## Symbolic Methods for Cryptography
 Worked with [Dr. Andrew Marshall](https://www.marshallandrew.net/) under an ONR grant in collaboration with University at Albany, Clarkson University, University of Texas at Dallas, and the Naval Research lab in order to automatically generated and verify cryptographic algorithms using symbolic (as opposed to computational) methods.
 
@@ -41,23 +46,22 @@ One particular problem I'm fascinated by is how to make Reinforcement Learning a
 
 ## Other
 
-**Programming Languages:** Studying the design of programming languages. So far I made an implementation of the SLOTH programming language, experimenting with what I want my own programming language to be syntatically and paradigm wise. [SLOTH Code](https://github.com/brandon-rozek/SLOTH)
+[**Programming Languages:**](proglang) Back in the Fall of 2018, under the guidance of Ian Finlayson, I worked towards creating a programming language similar to SLOTH (Simple Language of Tiny Heft). [SLOTH Code](https://github.com/brandon-rozek/SLOTH)
 
-Before this study, I worked though a book called ["Build your own Lisp"](https://www.buildyourownlisp.com/) and my implementation of a lisp like language: [Lispy Code](https://github.com/brandon-rozek/lispy)
+Before this study, I worked through a great book called ["Build your own Lisp"](https://www.buildyourownlisp.com/).
 
-**Competitive Programming:** Studying algorithms and data structures necessary for competitive programming. Attended ACM ICPC in November 2018/2019 with a team of two other students.
+
+[**Competitive Programming:**](progcomp) Studying algorithms and data structures necessary for competitive programming. Attended ACM ICPC in November 2018/2019 with a team of two other students.
 
 **Cluster Analysis:** The study of grouping similar observations without any prior knowledge. I studied this topic by deep diving Wikipedia articles under the guidance of Dr. Melody Denhere during Spring 2018. **[Extensive notes](clusteranalysis)**
 
-**Excitation of Rb87**: Worked in a Quantum Research lab alongside fellow student Hannah Killian under the guidance of Dr. Hai Nguyen. I provided software tools and assisted in understanding the mathematics behind the phenomena. 
+[**Excitation of Rb87**](rb87): Worked in a Quantum Research lab alongside fellow student Hannah Killian under the guidance of Dr. Hai Nguyen. I provided software tools and assisted in understanding the mathematics behind the phenomena. 
 
 [Modeling Population Dynamics of Incoherent and Coherent Excitation](/files/research/modellingpopulationdynamics.pdf)
 
 [Coherent Control of Atomic Population Using the Genetic Algorithm](/files/research/coherentcontrolofatomicpopulation.pdf)
 
-**Beowulf Cluster:** In order to circumvent the frustrations I had with simulation code taking a while, I applied and received funding to build out a Beowulf cluster for the Physics department. Dr. Maia Magrakvilidze was the advisor for this project.
 
-[High Performance Cluster for Research and Education Report (nicknamed LUNA-C)](/files/research/LUNAC.pdf)
 
-[LUNA-C Poster](/files/research/LUNACposter.pdf)
+[**Beowulf Cluster:**](lunac) In order to circumvent the frustrations I had with simulation code taking a while, I applied and received funding to build out a Beowulf cluster for the Physics department. Dr. Maia Magrakvilidze was the advisor for this project. [LUNA-C Poster](/files/research/LUNACposter.pdf)
 

content/research/dimensionalityreduction.md

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----
-Title: Dimensionality Reduction 
-Description: Reducing High Dimensional Datasets to what we can digest.
-showthedate: false
----
-
-# Dimensionality Reduction
-
-In the Summer of 2018, I was going to embark with another study on the topics pertaining to Dimensionality Reduction. Sadly the other student became busy a few weeks into the study. I decided to upload what we got through anyways for completeness.
-
-[Syllabus](syllabus)
-
-[Intro](intro)
-
-[Feature Selection](featureselection)
-
-[Optimality Criteria](optimalitycriteria)

content/research/lunac.md

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 ---
-Title: LUNA-C Cluster 
+Title: LUNA-C 
 Description: Building a Beowulf Cluster for the University
 showthedate: false
 ---
 
-# LUNA-C
-
 LUNA-C stands for Large Universal Network Array of Computers and it was a project started back in August 2017 to introduce a cluster computing system to the University. I started this project in response to a want for more computing power to help with the Physics research I was doing at the time.
+Dr. Maia Magrakvalidze was the faculty sponsor for this project.
 
-I started this project and wrote a grant proposal and have brought on many students to help make this dream come true. The resources below give a look into all the thoughts and ideas that went along with the project.
+One of the Physics labs at the time were getting their computers upgraded
+and the old computers were going to be surplussed. I along with Carlos
+Ramirez and Clare Arrington convinced them to let us use the surplussed
+computers for a Beowulf cluster. We wrote a grant proposal to acquire
+hardware upgrades (RAM, SSDs, etc.) for the computers. Later on,
+Stefano Cornonado joined the project.
 
-[May 2018 Poster](poster.pdf)
+[High Performance Cluster for Research and Education Report (nicknamed LUNA-C)](/files/research/LUNAC.pdf)
 
-[August 2018 Report](report.pdf)
+[LUNA-C Poster](/files/research/LUNACposter.pdf)
 
-[June 2019 Presentation](/files/slides/buildinglinuxcluster.pdf)
+[FredLUG June 2019 Presentation](/files/slides/buildingalinuxcluster.pdf)
+
+[Physics Newsletter 2017-2018](/files/research/PN-2017-2018.pdf#page=8)
+
+[UMW Research & Creativity Day 2018](/files/research/UMW-RC-2018.pdf#page=48)

content/research/physics.md

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----
-Title: Physics
-Description: Help with Physics Research Projects
-showthedate: false
----
-
-## Physics Research
-
-For the two projects below, I worked on Quantum Research in a physics  lab with a fellow student Hannah Killian and an advisor Dr. Hai Nguyen.  I mostly assisted with the software support for the project and  assisted in the mathematics in whatever way I can.
-
-[Modeling Population Dynamics of Incoherent and Coherent Excitation](/files/research/modellingpopulationdynamics.pdf)
-
-[Coherent Control of Atomic Population Using the Genetic Algorithm](/files/research/coherentcontrolofatomicpopulation.pdf)

content/research/progcomp.md

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 showthedate: false
 ---
 
-# Programming Competition
-Back in the Fall of 2018, Harrison Crosse, Clare Arrington, and I all formed a team to compete in a programming competition.
+Back in the Fall of 2018, Harrison Crosse, Clare Arrington, and I all formed a team to compete in ACM ICPC.
 
 I didn't make many notes for this, but below are the ones I did make for this.
 
 [Strings](strings)
 
-[Number Theory](numbertheory)
+[Number Theory](numbertheory)
+
+I also participated in ACM ICPC 2019 with two other students.

content/research/progcomp/numbertheory.md

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-#  Number Theory
+---
+title: Number Theory for ACM ICPC
+math: true
+---
 
 ## Prime Numbers
 

content/research/progcomp/strings.md

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-# Strings
+---
+title: Strings for ACM ICPC
+---
 
 ## Character Codes
 

content/research/proglang.md

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 showthedate: false
 ---
 
-# Programming Languages
 Back in the Fall of 2018, under the guidance of Ian Finlayson, I worked towards creating a programming language similar to SLOTH (Simple Language of Tiny Heft). The language as of now is interpreted and supports array based programming.
 
 [Github repository](https://github.com/brandon-rozek/sloth) outlining my work.
 
-[Short Notes](types) on Types of Programming Languages
+[Short Notes](types) on Types of Programming Languages
+
+Before this study, I worked though a book called ["Build your own Lisp"](https://www.buildyourownlisp.com/) and my implementation of a lisp like language: [Lispy Code](https://github.com/brandon-rozek/lispy)

content/research/proglang/types.md

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-# Types of Programming Languages
+---
+title: Types of Programming Languages
+---
 
-Mostly content from Wikipedia
-
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages_by_type#Hardware_description_languages
+Mostly content from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages_by_type#Hardware_description_languages)
 
 ## Array Languages
 

content/research/rb87.md

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+---
+Title: Rb87 Physics Research
+Description: Help with Physics Research Projects
+showthedate: false
+---
+
+Worked in a Quantum Research lab alongside fellow student Hannah Killian under the guidance of Dr. Hai Nguyen. I provided software tools and assisted in understanding the mathematics behind the phenomena.
+
+[Modeling Population Dynamics of Incoherent and Coherent Excitation](/files/research/modellingpopulationdynamics.pdf)
+
+[Coherent Control of Atomic Population Using the Genetic Algorithm](/files/research/coherentcontrolofatomicpopulation.pdf)
+
+[Physics Newsletter 2016-2017](/files/research/PN-2016-2017.pdf#page=3)
+
+[VAS Proceedings 2017](/files/research/VAS-Proceedings-95-2017.pdf#page=6)
+
+[UMW Resarch & Creativity Day 2017](https://cas.umw.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/51/files/2019/10/2017-Program-Book-with-Abstracts-2.pdf#page=39)

content/research/reinforcementlearning/readings.md

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-# Readings for Lectures of Cluster Analysis
+---
+title: RL Reading Schedule
+---
 
 ## Lecture 1
 Chapter 1: What is Reinforcement Learning?

content/research/reinforcementlearning/syllabus.md

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-# Reinforcement Learning
+---
+title: Reinfrocement Learning Syllabus
+---
 
 The goal of this independent study is to gain an introduction to the topic of Reinforcement Learning.