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I'm a former college basketball captain, chess club president, and an avid language-learner. When I'm not coding, hooping, playing chess or learning, I'm probably asleep.

Projects

GERALD Chess Engine Thesis

GERALD is a product of passion, C++ research chess engine using genetic algorithms to tune it's hyperparameters and integral functions. Featuring classic search optimizations such as Alpha-Beta pruning, the quiescience search, and a handcrafted evaluation, this program is nearly unbeatable! (See gif of GERALD destryong my lousy play)

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Handwriting Teacher

Winner of the 2023 HackMIT Education Track. Utilizes OCR, prompt engineering, and sequence alignement algorithms to provide intelligent feedback on your handwriting.

Future Plans: We plan to fully deploy the app, as well as add capabilities to handle a multitude of langauges, including but not limited to: Russian, Spanish, French, German, Sanksrit, and Italian.

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Wordle AI

Runs three increasingly expensive algorithms to beat the popular NY Times mini-game Wordle. What do YOU think the best starting word is? My algorithms says it's 'roate'.

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Portfolio Website

You're looking at it! Curious about the prey-predator simulation running in the background?

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For serious inquiries shoot me an email! elliotmharris@gmail.com