Monday, 28 March 2016

Hackerrank top 20k

I took some time off to establish my programming skills to a certain level at Hackerrank 2016.

Obviously it wouldn't be regarded as perfect but I have done alot of the functional exercise to rank myself up to a certain level of being the top 20k within the list of amateur programmers.



I wouldn't say I would be the best but at least I have done some work to improve on my algorithmic problem solving skills using C++.

This Hackerrank actually have alot of interesting exercises that relates to AI and machine learning and that is a challenge to actually do them, investigate and learn.

Entering Onestart 2015 and leaving with open options

Last summer I had an opportunity to participate in Onestart project competition 2015 and we had a team of four who entered this competition in detecting carcinogens using computer vision. 




The technology use underlying was OpenCV



I use this SDK because it has alot of machine learning libraries that are easy to use and it lead me into different areas of computer vision which I didn't know that much about such as edge detection, movement detection and so forth.

I had fun in installing and working with these new concepts and programming technologies and even had a working example using techniques these similar codes in detecting a moving object.

Although my time with the team was short, I get to know more expertise in the field was a great leap and expanded the network of people around the globe.