My girlfriend (Jenny) was posed the following question in her upper level Neuroscience course (paraphrased): Do humans have “free will” or are their actions predetermined by a system of algorithms encoded in their brain? Her response is the following: Ultimately, I believe that humans are prisoners to algorithmic systems that determine our choices – however, […]
Generally Monte Carlo methods refer to: Any method which solves a problem by generating suitable random numbers and observing that fraction of the numbers obeying some property or properties. [1] In other words, a Monte Carlo method is any algorithm which obtain numerical results (an approximation) with random sampling. This is simple, straight forward, and […]
Recently, I have been doing some work for my senior thesis/project related to computer vision. One particular thing I found interest, but opted against pursing was determining man made objects. There are already several methods to do this, however I thought of a fun twist that would work for a senior thesis. Although, I decided to […]