Last week we mainly focused on writing the design review report. To address the elephant in the room, we know that our submission was nowhere near as well done or well polished as it could be, and frankly was not even fully done in some parts. We know that this now means that we will have to pick up more work leading into the final report to make sure that it is done well, and we more than intend to do this. We do not want to repeat submitting something of such sub-par quality for the final report at all.
As for this week:
James focused mainly on improving CNN performance with marginal gains so far. More details are included in his status report.
Joshua focused on refining the software implementation of the project and ironing out bugs, as well as sorting out issues with training due to problems with AWS.
Kunal helped with improving CNN performance, as well as acquainting himself more with some of the content from reconfig, which James is currently taking but Kunal is not.
Overall, the project is about one whole week behind according to the Gantt chart, but this is not a concern since we left two extra weeks in order to address unexpected issues with our project’s development. A lot of it came down to our other courses ramping up in terms of time commitment and effort, and all members having to focus on other things, but in the end, we made a steady amount of progress, and we are still on track to finish the project on time.