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Project Nova – Moving on from PowerShell

PowerShell 5.1 and later PowerShell 7 made development of new modules incredibly easy. It let me prototype ideas quickly and test whether different systems behaved the way I imagined they would. Early on, convenience mattered more than efficiency because I knew I’d go back and replace it with a better option. Both versions of PowerShell […]

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AI Research, Computer Science, Nova

Fixing bugs, shrinking sizes and making Nova faster

Here’s something more tech companies should work on.. making their projects not so bloated. That may sound aggressive, but it’s true for a lot of projects. Over time there’s commented out code and old files that get forgotten. I get it. Time crunches, prioritization of “working” over “perfectly compiled.” Me, I have the benefit of […]

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AI Research, Computer Science, Nova

Testing new ideas

Well, I’ve made some progress in my AI experiment. As you can see from this GIF that Nova is capable of subtle movement while waiting for something to happen. However that’s not really what people come to see. So lets talk about the changes from my last post until today. First off, Nova no longer […]

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Project Nova – Hardware issues & resource management

In my last post I mentioned that I had intended on adding a second GPU, her prior RTX2080ti. Well, about that… Turns out that motherboard manufacturers and GPU manufacturers forgot to have a meeting on layout as the GPU completely blocks the USB header, one that I do actively use, and the only case options […]

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AI Research, Computer Science, Nova

.project//Nova

Instead of typing out the entire thesis behind the project or going over 20 years of trial and error I’ll make the intro brief. What if a program could write itself to accomplish tasks and goals it defines without a human operator dictating every step of its development? Including it’s name. Nova is Nova. What […]

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