# Welcome to my mind!
#work-in-progress
> [!WARNING]
> ==The site is still WIP, so, please, be patient with certain sections. Thank you!==
This little site is the public front for my projects, thoughts, notes, plans, and who knows what else!
*If you came here from [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/simtoon/), you might want to jump to [[#Professional background]].*
### Active projects
- [The Advanced Communication Augmentor and Relational Insights System - v2](The%20Advanced%20Communication%20Augmentor%20and%20Relational%20Insights%20System%20-%20v2.md)
### A little something about me
I'm a programmer and I, among else, conduct research in the machine learning field.
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Ever since I was a child, I wanted to write stories and then somehow be able to show them to the world. I started writing e-books, but that wasn't satisfactory; something was missing: there was no way to interact with the story and change how it unfolds.
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So, I got into game dev. A few years have passed, and I have incorporated my own company, and started making primarily games, but my company also made websites, and provided tech support.
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When the 2023 "*AI hype*" began, I made a difficult decision to step away from game development and get into machine learning full-time. I had core knowledge there, so the transition was relatively easy. Ever since, I've been in this field, studying hard to become proficient. I led a small crash-course for several interns from my school that covered the basics of neural nets, strengthening my own command of the topic.
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Today, I specialize in natural language processing, specifically using the [Transformer model architecture](Transformers%20for%20Natural%20Language%20Processing%20-%20Second%20Edition.md). I code in Python and C++ and have completed over 10 functional personal projects with it. I am currently working on another—a research project, [ACARIS](Arch.md), aimed at improving social understanding within NLP, and a [research project](Simtoon%20Brain%20Institute.md), though technically associated with [ACARIS](Arch.md), that aims to identify hypoactive brain regions in ASD social interactions and apply non-invasive brain stimulation to attempt to improve through neuroplasticity.
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I'm also teaching myself cognitive science to gain more knowledge on how to combine a human with the immense capabilities of machine learning.
#### Big Five
^ebc132
![](https://github.com/simonSlamka/simonSlamka/blob/3ffce6a9ea6071fb6ef3aadbcaca3f5aa45ab85d/BIG5-graphic.png?raw=true)
#### MBTI
^31feee
![](https://github.com/simonSlamka/simonSlamka/blob/b31de57a13bff648f71a660dd5aab965dc23674c/mbti.png?raw=true)
#### "Dark Triad"
^1b7255
![](https://github.com/simonSlamka/simonSlamka/blob/93a40834fa5eb719062c5b93e7ed7cfcce00324b/Screenshot%20from%202023-12-19%2008-15-13.png?raw=true)
#### Mach-IV
![](https://github.com/simonSlamka/simonSlamka/blob/788de59eb3843460f01ef59d3c5f8465f6cfdf8a/Screenshot%20from%202023-12-25%2013-10-35.png?raw=True)
#### Narcissism
![](https://github.com/simonSlamka/simonSlamka/blob/788de59eb3843460f01ef59d3c5f8465f6cfdf8a/Screenshot%20from%202023-12-25%2013-15-02.png?raw=True)
![](https://github.com/simonSlamka/simonSlamka/blob/788de59eb3843460f01ef59d3c5f8465f6cfdf8a/Screenshot%20from%202023-12-25%2013-15-38.png?raw=True)
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### Professional background
![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/simonSlamka/simonSlamka/main/metrics.classic.svg)
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![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/simonSlamka/simonSlamka/main/metrics.plugin.isocalendar.fullyear.svg)
*total since 2019*
![](https://wakatime.com/badge/user/70f280d9-2d73-42e5-894d-a0d0f2acbd75.svg)
*For coding stats, [click here](Personal%20interests/Coding/Stats.md).*
[==GitHub profile==](https://github.com/simonSlamka)
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I've had a few student jobs, but nothing related to my field. I also own and manage my own business, but it hasn't taken off (yet).
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From January until March, I managed a team of a total of 7 interns and led them through a machine learning crash-course consisting of the basics of neural nets, replication of [micrograd](https://github.com/karpathy/micrograd), the making of a simple bi-gram language model (*replication of [makemore](https://github.com/karpathy/makemore)*), the basics of reinforcement learning, stable diffusion, and other, smaller topics.
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I will use the following section to document various projects that I have had a hand in.
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#### Game development
##### Experience in:
- Unreal Engine 4 (*with several months of experience in Unreal Engine 5*)
> [!DONE|noicon] [Beat Rush](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a1pWekduNI&pp=ygUPYmVhdCBydXNoIHN0ZWFt)
![](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a1pWekduNI&pp=ygUPYmVhdCBydXNoIHN0ZWFt)
> [!DONE|noicon] [Terminal Insanity: RackJacker](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51LNsCKf8ic&list=PLJR39Q1c4BTPJkORZSzTqDeeqnk98_CKX)
![](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELHdPonwfZ0&list=PLJR39Q1c4BTPJkORZSzTqDeeqnk98_CKX&index=15&pp=iAQB)
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#### Machine learning
[==My Weights & Biases profile==](https://wandb.ai/simtoon)
[==My Hugging Face profile==](https://huggingface.co/ongkn)
##### Experience in:
- PyTorch
> [!DONE|noicon] the [Advanced Communication Augmentor and Relational Insights System](Arch.md)
> [!DONE|noicon] [MarkIV](A%20New%20Path%20-%20Ongakken%20Leaves%20Game%20Dev.md)
> [!DONE|noicon] [ai.ongakken.com](https://ai.ongakken.com/)
> [!DONE|noicon] [Niche classifier](General%20info.md) (*work in progress*)
^2831e2
>[!DONE|noicon] [Cerviguard](Projects/Work/Cerviguard/Hypothesis.md)
> [!DONE|noicon] [Does she like you?](https://github.com/simonSlamka/does-she-like-you) (*this was an early stride into ML and while very simplistic, it sparked my interested in the field and is one of the reasons why I am currently in it*)
> [!DONE|noicon] [NeuroWorld](https://github.com/ongakken/NeuroWorld) (*even though barely started, this project was likely the very first contact of mine with anything ML-related. Originally, it was supposed to be an RL simulation consisting of agents fighting for their lives*)
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- HF `transformers`
> [!DONE|noicon] [Girl classifier](desc%20-%20girl%20classifier.md)
^girlclassifier
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- Keras
> [!DONE|noicon] [Neko classifier](https://huggingface.co/ongknsro/neko-classifier)
> [Dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/ongknsro/nekos-nonnekos)
> [School doc](portfolio.md)
> [Jupyter notebook used for training](https://github.com/simonSlamka/neko-classifier/blob/main/prop_nekogirls.ipynb)
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- OpenCV/dlib
>[!done|noicon] [Cuteness calculator](intro%20-%20cuteness%20calculator.md)
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#### Music production
> [!DONE|noicon] *[a GitHub search filter for the songs that I open-sourced](https://github.com/simonSlamka?tab=repositories&q=song_&type=public&language=&sort=)*
> [!DONE|noicon] [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/artist/2DDZznPqd8lnsIeqkgKyxN)
> [!DONE|noicon] [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@Simtoonia/)
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#### Misc
> [!DONE|noicon] [vidminify](https://github.com/simonSlamka/vidminify)
> [!DONE|noicon] [end dev session](https://github.com/simonSlamka/end-dev-session)
> [!DONE|noicon] [My writing](https://www.amazon.de/Simon-Slamka/e/B09NCLWKH9)
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### Academic background
> [!DONE|noicon] Audiovisual technology at "Secondary School of Electrical Engineering", Karola Adlera 5, Bratislava, Slovakia
> [!DONE|noicon] "IT-teknolog" program (*essentially computer science*) at ["UCL Erhvervsakademi og Professionshøjskole" in Odense, Denmark](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/simtoon_just-finished-the-it-teknolog-educational-activity-7079778477356261376-UFjq)
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### Extracurricular background
> [!DONE|noicon] "SOČ" (*a Slovak high-school competition*)—made it into the national round
![soc-postup-regional](soc-postup-regional.jpg)
![soc-regional](soc-regional.jpg)
![soc-cert-national](soc-cert-national.jpg)
> [!DONE|noicon] "AMAVET" (*a Slovak tech and science competition*)—made it into the national round
![amavet-cert](amavet-cert.jpg)