This week was really fun. It was great to see the progress made by my classmates on their respective projects - I particularly enjoyed the brainrot video editor and I found myself thinking of fun ways to contribute to it. I thought the one that used Gemini to provide motivation was super cool too, it’s insane that they were able to tap into an LLM integration that quickly. I’d love to see how this can be adjusted to use local LLMs though and the RAM cost seems brutal.

I’m super happy with the project, and progress, my group has made too. Our project is genuinely super useful to me - I can see so much value in being able to predict my final grades accurately. I want to add a few more features though, especially one to change the weights.

One thing I’ve noticed is super valuable in the presentations I’ve watched is confidence in your expertise. Having confidence makes it easier to be present in the presentation, and even treat it as more of a conversation - and that’s what made so many of these presentations engaging. Especially in Linus’s presentation, having seen his actual talks, I know he’s a fairly awkward speaker but in conversation he does great. Being able to adapt that mentality to any talk is valuable.