LanternAI is a handwritten Chinese character and radical recognition program made for helping students learn Chinese! Written in Python, LanternAI utilizes machine learning to identify over 7,000 Chinese characters. Chinese is the top language in the world with over 1 billion speakers! The Chinese written language is character based, with each character representing an idea. […]
The Big Data Bowl 2022 is a competition on Kaggle, a website centered around data science and machine learning, two ideas that interest me greatly. The purpose of the competition is to create a new stat, metric, or insight to evaluate special teams and to allow NFL and college coaches to improve decision-making. Through the […]
What is a cloud chamber? What does it do? It is a very simple, intriguing concept that can be interpreted in multiple ways. However, their principle is the same: There is an enclosed container with a type of alcohol. In my case, I am using 99% isopropyl alcohol. At the bottom of the container there […]
The most important meal of the day is breakfast, so why is it also the most overlooked? Mornings are rushed, but nutrition shouldn’t be sacrificed as a result. In theory, cereals would be the perfect solution: no preparation required, quick to eat, and little clean-up, but they are often packed with concerning amounts of sugar […]
I set out to solve Schoology’s poor user interface using a REST API. Schoology, especially its mobile app, have plenty of utility but are very inefficient to work with. Here’s a quote from one GusSnarp on the App Store: “Schoology itself is a poorly designed system that attempts to turn what ought to be like […]
For the 2020 – 2021 school year, for my i2 project, I decided to redesign the typical model for a standard armbrace given to a patient after breaking a bone in the arm or wrist. I improved the design by making it lighter, more comfortable, and less expensive. To make it lighter, I decided to […]
From the very start of this school year, I knew I wanted my project to involve the worsening climate crisis. When brainstorming ideas, I found it difficult to come up with a doable project that would bring about an actual change in the world. Everything I initially devised was either unrealistic in scale or had […]
As the time keeps moving forward we see the inevitable moving closer and closer. Everyday the damage that we have done to the Earth has gotten worse and worse. The main contributor to our climate crisis is the use of fossil fuels and the carbon that they emit. Wind energy is a wonderful way to […]
We explored the effects of different levels of culturally embedded women empowerment across the world in a variety of areas such as education, pay, and population.
Fun to make and even more fun to use, a reflector telescope is the perfect device for viewing the night sky. The first reflecting telescope, the Newtonian Telescope, was built in 1668 as an alternative to the refracting telescope. Isaac Newton, the inventor, used a large concave mirror to focus light onto a small, flat […]
