Week 8: Frontend Magic, Backend Data

I must say, the euphoria of finally seeing your work compile successfully is pretty amazing, but sooner or later you have to step back from the coding process and actually explain it. Welcome back to my senior project week 8! I finally hung up the coder’s hat and donned the author’s hat. After experiencing a few adrenaline rushes during last week’s noise sweep experiment runs, I found myself staring at a blinking cursor with the task of actually writing a full-fledged research paper based on my results. Even though my results’ discussion and conclusion are not ready yet as I’m still processing the final batch of data, I’ve managed to do quite a bit of writing this week. First, I outlined my document in meticulous detail. Then, I carefully formatted my bibliography according to the ACS style guidelines. Finally, I edited both the Introduction and the Methodology chapters, so now I can proceed with my paper once I receive the final set of results.

While working on my paper, I realized one thing, there is no one other than researchers within my area of expertise who will want to look at a web page of nothing but raw TensorFlow code and console output screenshots. As the date of my senior capstone exhibition comes closer, it is time to stop caring about the process of creating models and start thinking hard about their audience reception. I need some sort of tangible way of presenting my theory to my potential readers. I decided I need an application which would allow me to show people first-hand the discrepancy in resistance of my models against static.

I have begun sketching the design of the website which would be used for my final demonstration. The main goal is to create an interface which would feature a slider where the audience would have to increase the Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN). As the level of static increases, graphs depicting my classical and quantum models’ behavior against the same exact static level would appear on my website screen. The viewer would experience firsthand the moment when the classical architecture fails while the quantum one stays stable and accurate. Besides this interactive website, I have been pondering over the layout of my physical exhibition poster, considering ways of including the architectural diagram of my quantum gates and the underlying logic behind them.

Patrick Zhou, signing off.