A Guitar and Grandpa’s Harmony

March 10th, 2025 by

For most 5th graders, the last day of school is one of emancipation. But for me, it was a day I dreaded for one reason. Our school’s annual field trip to Pier 39 in San Francisco. After an insufferable 2-hour bus ride, filled with typical elementary school atrocities, we had finally reached our destination. My …

What Are GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks)?

June 23rd, 2024 by

The Background Ian Goodfellow, a PhD student at the Université de Montréal, introduced GANs (Generative Adversarial Nets) to the world in 2014 through a research paper titled “Generative Adversarial Nets.” Instead of relying solely on existing datasets, GANs could generate new data that mimicked real datasets. This innovation would revolutionize data collection, making it faster …