Konrad Pilch
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Konrad Pilch - Personal Projects

Personal Projects

I will sometimes push my personal projects to my GitHub (cannot guarantee it is up to date).
Here are some of my longer term projects:
  1. There is a popular web game called Wordle. I am in the process of writing code for:
    • scraping lists of five letter words from various websites
    • a Wordle solver
    • a program that computes best strategies for humans
    For me, it's a testing ground for trying out some machine learning techniques.

  2. I absolutely love a particular visual puzzle called a nonogram. Again, as a personal project, I am looking to create a solver for
    • black and white nonograms
    • colour nonograms (similar but more colours than just the one).

Competitions

I recently took part in various competitions. In particular, I took part in the 2021 (Season 8) West Coast Tournament of Terminal run by Correlation One. It is an AI game where you compete by programming algorithms and battling them against each other in a live e-sports tournament with $25000 in prizes. My team (called 'AKO') qualified to the final knock-out bracket by beating all Caltech teams. In the knock out, though we had the third strongest algorithm in the round robin, we ended knocked out early eventually fighting back to come fifth.