Did you prepare adequately?

My presentation went the way it went. I don’t think adding more time to it or rehearsing more would have changed much.
The only thing; maybe if I would have more time would have been spending more time on my prototype but honestly since I still don’t know how to do a mobile app or not completely finished reading the research, the added benefit would have been only marginal. Last review, we agreed it should be essentially a mobile play but not knowing how to make a mobile app, it does somewhat limit the delivery.

 

Write about your experience with your midterm presentation and be honest.

Not sure what to take of it. See the experience reminds me of Critical Experience final. Can’t do much with it/ mostly opinions less of critique. It is a very different experience than say Connections Lab final. Craig, Dan and third reviewer in Connections Lab offered good suggestions, directions where to go, new ideas etc… Also the delivery of feedback was well done. (Many items they said were incorporated in the presentation)

Here seriously I can’t do much of it. The level of AI being the project is so/so… OK, so what isn’t? While the level is so/so, companies and apps have been created around it. Google even tried to apply Deep Learning on such project. So/so for some, not for others. If so/so, then what isn’t so/so?

Wrapping the app around the fact that “I prepared this to for my classmates to show the products of my country” is nice but I think missing the point. It is also sending on another direction while I have received other opinions on a different direction. Where to go? Complete Directional Confusion.

On top of that, the whole experience had an “America/Arabs got Talent”. X X O or X X X or O O O.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-Dtx0Cs-KE

Were we in a Pitch Fest or something?

I think what is missing, maybe because I couldn’t attend the first session and there is no recording, is:

  • What is the objective of the Thesis?
  • Who evaluates?
  • What is expected?
  • Are there any specific elements to approach:
    • does it need to be based on the latest and pioneering technology?
    • does it needs to be about politics?
  • What exactly is expected from us?

 

What do you need to focus on for the next 5 weeks?

Nothing changed. Same plan: need to read the research, need to know how to make a mobile app, and if times allows work on the UI and some elements of the Model. Maybe work on some Image Acquisition.

Link to Pres: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zdFBqph50hHAbdfuJTdEemy40xzEeDIMUBXLTfWVhrU/edit?usp=sharing