Day 17: Working on a VQA model

Today started with a meeting about everyones presentation outlines. All the interns ran though their plan for the presentation. I felt everyone did a great job but I realized I had a way to go after I struggled to concisely explain some of the things I planned to present.  After the meeting I continued to create my own VQA program. I struggled in the morning to implement most of the programs. After some help from Kushal I was able to implement a function that could successfully accept the data as input and then manipulate it into a vector. I plan to try and get a model to make predictions on the data tomorrow.

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