Log April 8, 2023

I kind of like living in a small city after spending around four years living in one. It’s still got everything essential that you need, but not too many choices like big cities offer, which is a good thing. And if you do them enough social, you’ll basically have people you know everywhere in the… Continue reading Log April 8, 2023

Log March 14 2023

Today is the 4th or 5th day of cutting fact that after the headaches and tiredness I experienced in day one and day two, I don’t have much fatigue as expected, rather, I’ve even felt more energetic sometimes. Additionally, sleeping quality has improved.

Log March 11

When you can’t recall a brain caffeine-free, it may suggest you’re in the grip of caffeine’s spree. Myself, on the bus from Carlow back to Galway, 2nd day cutting caffeine Getting up with a light headache – which is a common caffeine withdrawal symptom. Sleeping quality was quite good and I felt sleepy during the… Continue reading Log March 11

Log Feb 28 2023

Finished watching Drive to Survive season 5 in the past few days. Also this week I was doing catch up on uni content. Quite a lot of pressure for getting a very high avg score this semester. Head down and push is the only option for March and April… Last week I found out going… Continue reading Log Feb 28 2023

log feb 21 2023

Won a silver in recurve team, Student National archery championship during the weekend. It was some of my best shots ever, do I just work better under pressure? But bottom target IS my favourite, that might explains it. Academic wise, very behind, overdue assignments are starting to pile up, missing lectures ending up in the… Continue reading log feb 21 2023

Log Feb 7 2023

Recently, life has been quite stressful. Assignments are piling up, as usual, the final year project is running out of time, and applications for grad school need to be submitted. Been reading the book ‘The PhD Grind’ by Philip J. Guo. Hopefully I can finish reading it before submitting the scholarship application and gain some… Continue reading Log Feb 7 2023

The Peripheral

Tommy: You know what my first memory of you is, Flynn? My very first? I was in the third grade, so you must’ve been in first. And they had you down at the principal’s office in a rage. Remember? ‘Cause somehow, you managed to take the earthworms from the science room, and dumped them in… Continue reading The Peripheral

Final year project development diary – week two

Mail communication between Prof Michael and myself. Things I’ve done since the last meeting:  More search on existing literatures of automatic scoring systems.  – They are all based on image processing. Started learning TensorFlow.  Content we talked about during today’s meeting: Size of the training images: do experiments, start to reduce resolution, and see how long it… Continue reading Final year project development diary – week two

Final year project development diary – week one

Automatic archery scoring system using mobile phone camera Background: I have been doing archery ever since my first year in university. I thought I was going to be uncertain about what I’m going to do for the final year project (I’m uncertain about most of the things in life). But now it has become clearer… Continue reading Final year project development diary – week one