Contacts, Innovation, and Machine Learning.

We had the Business Symposium this week, and I don�t think it went too bad.

For my interview, I got paired up with a speech therapist (someone completely unrelated to my field). But, (with the help of my professional) I was able to make the best of the situation and still learned a lot about the professional world. She helped me realize that I needed to start planning and figuring out the career pathway to get to my field. In addition, she explained what the pre-professional world was like. But the best resource that she gave me was contact with a professional in my field. This person works at a professional video game creation company as a game designer. This is relevant to my field because he often deals with the team-working aspect of Artificial Intelligence, which is a topic that I have several questions about. I will be contacting him, among many others this week.

In addition, we had to create an Original Work Proposal that detailed a product that displayed the research that we did this year. I came up with an invention that makes an extremely beneficial change to the world while being plausible with my skill caliber. I cannot detail the invention in this post because it might actually be able to be patented.

On top of that, we had to do some research about a new topic this week. I learned about the main method that machines actually learn: neural networks. These networks are essentially the strategic usage of �nodes� and weighted �synapses� that connect and develop based on the amount of information provided. As more and more data is given to the program, the program becomes increasingly accurate.

This week I plan on beginning my research on my Original Work, while also contacting some of the people on my contact list and possibly scheduling interviews.