I list here in chronological order some of the projects I started. Most of them are in very early stages due to time constraints and the fact that I especially enjoy exploring technologies that are new to me.
I spent some months during the summer writing tools for a researcher in mathematics. The tools were mostly doing exhaustive searches in certain spaces, with sets of provable hueristics, which were also partially automatically computed. I invested a large amount of time into cleaning, commenting, and modularizing over 10000 lines of spaghetti code inherited from the previous intern.
Java, JUnit, Multithreading, GUI programming
In my Machine Learning course my SVM based classifier ranked 3rd in a class competition at identifying hand written characters.
With a group of students we also investigated the possibility of using machine learning algorithms for daily stock price movement predictions.
Matlab, Machine Learning, SVM
I was implementing a computer player for the board game of Quoridor. The agent uses the popular reinforcement learning algorithm UCT. The initial part of the work was joint with
Jesse Tucker.
Java, UCT
For a research project I was implementing various algorithms hoping they will reduce the search space involved in solving Sokoban puzzles. I displayed this extra information as an overlay on a Sokoban game implementation, and found a counterexample to the proposed methods.
Java, Algorithms
After learning about evolution in biology class, I was inspired to write a program where creatures learnt an approximate shortest path to a mating area. The creatures who got there faster could mate for longer and thus pass on their mutated DNA, which was an encoding of the path they took, more dominantly. As a result, through natural selection, the creatures found an approximate shortest path to the mating area, and could even adapt to changes in its location.
Game Maker Language, Archaic Genetic Algorithm
With some friends from Hungary we formed the game dev team N2G: New Generation Games, and worked on a collection of games. One of our games won an award in a Hungarian National Computer Contest for Ages Under 19, and also became a staff pick on the (at the time up-and-coming) YoYoGames website. For an exhaustive list of projects with images and short descriptions, see
this page, left under construction.
Game Maker
I started learning Pascal and Comenius Logo at this age.