Jimmys Software Project

This week I got my draft feedback and improved my planning and designing. I plan to continue this next week and then start coding a bit.

This week I completed all my planning and submitted it for a draft. this coming week I hope to employ the feedback I was given and maybe start work on some code for the final project.

This week I focused more on the planning phase and decided to go about it a different way. my plan now is to build the neural network from scratch purely through the theory I know about how they work as I think I have a good enough understanding to build one. I also have a rough idea of what the actual program is going to look like which is basically just a GUI to run, train and save AIs aswell as change some variables. I've been constructing my own flowcharts to help with the logic of the overall system as well as working through the planning steps for the assignment. I'm hoping to finish the planning shortly and submit it for a draft and tweak it during the week.

This week I continued through my learning process, having built an AI that trained itself to play sonic through the NEAT algorithm. I encountered an issue this week where I couldn't boot into Linux after trying to install cuda to setup tensorflow through my GPU. I managed to fix it by purging the nvidia programs. this week I'm hoping to learn about other algorithms such as curiosity learning and PPO2, as well as working on my planning for my final project.

What an eventful week it has been. In my attempts at setting up a gym retro environment through following a tutorial i kept getting stumped at a step, returning error code 1. I think i read every single article remotely related to that error that exists on the internet and was not able to find much of a fix for the soloution. i posted my issue on stackoverflow hoping for a response aswell as commenting on the tutorial video. after no responses i decided it might be a windows issue and so i performed a dual boot with ubuntu linux with the help of my teacher. things seemed to be going great until i came across the step that led me to my demise, and alas, the same error occured. things where seeming hopeless, there was no soloution in sight, i tried everything under the sun and above it. I got a reply on my comment, from Lucas Thompson (the youtuber that made the tutorial) and he was also unsure. i decided to try and install it differently and not from source like in the tu...