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The Growth Effects of Flax Seeds When Exposed to a Two Hour Treatment Period of 16°C, 22°C, 30°C, 35°C, or 42°C
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Developing and Refining Machine Learning Algorithms for LIGO\u27s TITANFALL Pipeline
No full textLIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, uses advanced laser technology to detect gravitational waves, which are ripples in spacetime caused by massive cosmic events. Due to its extreme sensitivity, LIGO\u27s detectors are affected by various sources of noise, ranging from minor temperature fluctuations to distant vibrations like passing cars. To address this, LIGO collects extensive data on the state of the detector through auxiliary sensors, such as thermometers. The auxiliary sensor data is reduced into feature sets, such as the strength and frequency of the signals in a given time window. This summer, I focused on developing machine learning algorithms (MLAs) which read patterns in the data found in these auxiliary features to predict glitches in the main gravitational-wave channel (strain data). This involved rebuilding data processing functions and unit tests for the TITAN pipeline, an MLA tool developed in Kenyon’s LIGO lab. By rewriting TITAN with classes, we created an updated version named TITANFALL. The TITANFALL pipeline, now debugged, has encountered an issue with one of the features in our datasets. Future work will involve constructing a new MLA for glitch-specific data frames and a more thorough investigation of the issues encountered when using the full feature dataset
On the Ideology of the AI Boom: Critical Perspectives on OpenAI
No full textThe rhetoric and practice of tech-futurist ideology, both intersecting with capitalist and neo-colonialist ideologies and on its own, have created new forms of domination under the guise of progress
Do Oscillons Decay?
No full textIn the early universe, there was a time of rapid expansion called inflation. The inflaton field drove this rapid expansion and contained all the energy from the early universe. The energy within the inflation must have then transferred to matter. When the energy enters the matter field, it then is able to become all the particles we see in the universe. However, when oscillons form in the inflaton field, the energy gets trapped and isn\u27t able to become particles. We modeled this process using our software, GABE, simulating the formation of oscillons to see if it was possible for them to decay into particles. We will now examine if different, direct couplings between the two fields allow a pathway to form for oscillons to decay
Town Music in Electoral Saxony c.1550-c.1685: Determining Possible Pathways of Acquisition
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Elementary Constructions of Best Known Quantum Codes
No full textBuilding large-scale quantum computers is a very active area of research. A critical part of this effort is the ability to control quantum errors. Recently, many good quantum error correcting codes (QECC) over various finite fields Fq have been constructed from codes over extension rings or mixed alphabet rings via some version of a Gray map. We show that most of these codes can be obtained more directly from classical codes, including cyclic, constacyclic, quasicyclic (QC), quasi-twisted (QT), and polycyclic codes using the CSS construction, Hermitian construction, and Lisonek-Singh methods. We believe direct and more elementary methods should be preferred