Selected Academic Work

Some projects I completed while I was a student at the Naval Academy and at Johns Hopkins APL.

TLP: Twitter Language Processing

Using the standford NLP Libary coupled with a maximum entropy classifer to use a Twitter corpus to predict the presidential approval rating, the price of gold, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

XPlane Machine Learning Plugin

A custom plugin for XPlane Flight Simulator to support reinforcement learning. In the example the plane is able to learn how to take off using LSPI.

A video of the plane learning to fly is here and successfully flying is here

Source of the plug in is here

Sparse Integers

A C++ libary that explored possible computational advantages by using alternative reprenstations of integers with few set bits, aka Sparse Integers.

Source of libary is here