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Mikol Aspinwall

My biggest projects right now work with Flask for web (a custom CMS designed for elderly volunteer accessibility), working with NFC on Android and iOS (virtual tour of my local area), as well as learning ARKit. I'm a TA, so I'm taking a deep delve into ML currently in order to write the coming month's labs - I've got a lot on my plate and I often end up mixing stuff

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Ben Lovy

ML as in Machine Learning or ML as in SML/OCaml/F#-type things?

It's really too bad those acronyms collide...

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Mikol Aspinwall

Machine Learning, but that other stuff seems really exciting! I worked a little bit with Haskell, and I'd like to learn more about functional programming; if my Googling serves me right, SML has to do with functional stuff.

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Ben Lovy • Edited

Aha! I'm on the opposite side - my knowledge stops short after k nearest neighbors :)

You're correct - it's a language family, and if you've used Haskell you know the drill! SML is a more academic language, OCaml and F# are more widely used - think Haskell-like syntax but with a relaxed purity restriction.

In either case it sounds like you've got your work cut out for you.

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Will Laurance 🚲

Nice! I wrote a fun research paper + code with Android NFC in my Cryptography CS course.
I've been meaning to checkout ARKit. Any recommendations for getting started there?

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Mikol Aspinwall

I'm a big fan of Angela Yu and all the content that London App Brewery has to offer. I worked with their course on Udemy to learn Swift initially, and they also have a new course in ARKit. I'd recommend you check it out!