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<h1 class="thick-text has-text-centered padded">Ongoing</h1>
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    <a href="https://forms.gle/4RE3ijpPALtA2q526"
      >Help Us Plan The Next Project</a
    >
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  <p>
    We're looking for people to help us plan the next projects for Fall 2024.
  </p>
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<h1 class="thick-text has-text-centered padded">Past Projects</h1>
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    <h2 class="thick-text">Natural Language Generation</h2>
    <p>Training GPT-2 on r/gatech and create a bot to post on the subreddit.</p>
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    <h2 class="thick-text">MineRL</h2>
    <p>
      Using RL techniques to train an agernt to play Minecraft and other video
      games
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    <h2 class="thick-text">Style Transfer</h2>
    <p>Comparing different approaches to image style transfer</p>
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    <h2 class="thick-text">DeepWeeb</h2>
    <p>Generating manga from stick-figure drawings</p>
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    <h2 class="thick-text">Intro Tutorials</h2>
    <p>A new tutorial or workshop on introductory topics each week.</p>
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    <h2 class="thick-text">Even Robots Can Find Love</h2>
    <p>
      Apply clustering algorithms on people's preferences to find them their
      ideal match <3
    </p>
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    <h2 class="thick-text">RL to Walk</h2>
    <p>
      Reproducing those videos of DeepMind humanoids learning how to walk and
      experimenting with different dynamics models + RL algorithms.
    </p>
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    <h2 class="thick-text">Style Transfer</h2>
    <p>Comparing different approaches to image style transfer</p>
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    <h2 class="thick-text">
      <a href="https://github.com/gtagency/neutral-lilt-parade">Twitter NLP</a>
    </h2>
    <p>
      We analyzed Twitter data using natural language processing techniques,
      building from linear bag-of-words approaches to fully neural models. We
      experimented with both sentiment classification and text generation.
    </p>
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      <a href="https://github.com/gtagency/Project_Nucleus">Project Nucleus</a>
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      As part of the
      <a href="https://www.kaggle.com/c/data-science-bowl-2018"
        >2018 Data Science Bowl,</a
      >
      we worked on detecting cell nuclei.
    </p>
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      <a href="https://github.com/gtagency/buzzmobile">Buzzmobile</a>
    </h2>
    <p>
      Buzzmobile is our autonomous car project. This was the Agency's founding
      project. It has gone through a number of iterations and its scale has
      increased since the club's founding.
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      <a href="https://github.com/gtagency/HALite_9000">Halite</a>
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    <p>
      Halite is a competition hosted by the Agency where bots fight for control
      of a 2D grid. The bot with the most territory at the end wins.
    </p>
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      2016 &mdash;
      <a href="https://github.com/gtagency/newage-lateral-piping"
        >Natural Language Processing</a
      >
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    <p>
      Natural language processing experiments with the goal of having an RNN
      successfully answer analogy questions.
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      2016 &mdash;
      <a href="https://github.com/gtagency/nn-hyper-octopus"
        >Neural Network Hyperparameter Optimization</a
      >
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    <p>
      Optimizing hyperparameters in order to understand how neural networks work
      and how we can make them better.
    </p>
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      2015 &mdash;
      <a href="https://github.com/gtagency/tetris-java">Tetris Bot</a>
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    <p>
      We competed amongst ourselves to see which group, the
      <a href="https://github.com/gtagency/tetris-java">Java enthusiasts</a>
      or the <a href="https://github.com/gtagency/tetris-python">Pythonistas</a>
      could build the better Tetris-playing agent in the
      <a href="http://theaigames.com/competitions/ai-block-battle"
        >AI Block Battle</a
      >.
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    <h2 class="thick-text">2015 &mdash; IARRC</h2>
    <p>
      IARRC stands for the International Autonomous Robot Racing Competition. We
      were brought on to improve the software for one of the Robojacket's
      projects (the robotics team at GT). The robot performed admirably, and we
      are taking our lessons learned from this project into Buzzmobile.
    </p>
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      2014 &mdash;
      <a href="https://github.com/gtagency/graph-reduction">Graph Reduction</a>
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      A tool to make graphs look pretty. Uses simulated annealing and other
      randomized optimization techniques to find the most visually pleasing
      layout for a graph.
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    <h2 class="thick-text">2014 &mdash; Music Generator</h2>
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    <h2 class="thick-text">2014 &mdash; Who Are You</h2>
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    <h2 class="thick-text">2013 &mdash; CSPScheduler</h2>
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    <h2 class="thick-text">2013 &mdash; GTNow</h2>
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Our past projects:


- Ongoing
- [Buzzmobile](https://github.com/gtagency/buzzmobile), our autonomous car project. This was the Agency's founding project. It has gone through a number of iterations and its scale has increased since the club's founding.

- 2016 Academic Year
- [Natural language processing experiments](https://github.com/gtagency/newage-lateral-piping), with the goal of having an agent successfully answer analogy questions
- [Neural Network Hyperparameter Optimization](https://github.com/gtagency/nn-hyper-octopus), to understand how neural networks work, and how we can make them work better

- 2015 Academic Year
- Tetris-Bot, we competed amongst ourselves to see which group, the [java-enthusiasts](https://github.com/gtagency/tetris-java) or the [pythonistas](https://github.com/gtagency/tetris-python), could build the better tetris-playing agent in the [the AI Block Battle](http://theaigames.com/competitions/ai-block-battle).
- IARRC, the International Autonomous Robot Racing Competition. We were brought on to improve the software for one of the Robojacket's projects, the bot performed admirably, and we are taking our lessons learned and tying them back into Buzzmobile.

- 2014 Academic Year
- [Graph-Reduction](https://github.com/gtagency/graph-reduction), a tool to make graphs look pretty
- Music-Generator
- Whoareyou

- 2013 Academic Year
- CSPScheduler
- GTNow
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