The End of University and Thoughts on the Future

Hey there, so now University has been officially completed! My honours project and viva voce have been completed, all exams are done and now it's just a matter of deciding what to do for the future. My marks and grades should come in the beginning of June and my graduation will be in July. In the meantime however I need to decide between two courses of action for the immediate future and that is either getting a job or post-graduate education. Currently I have received an offer for a funded PhD in Pervasive Parallelism at Edinburgh University which stands as a good contender, however on the opposing side getting a job in industry is an attractive option. Money and experience is always a good thing. As such these last couple of weeks have been a form of turmoil as I slingshot between the two but there's not much that can be done until I receive back all my formal offers. As such I shall post an update in the coming weeks.

However, in the meantime, now that university is over my goal is to continue honing the skills I've picked up over my time here. Alongside this I aim to finish many of the side projects that I haven't had time for over the past few weeks not to mention all the unplayed games in my steam library that need finishing. Currently I'm in the process of writing a neural network library, the goal of which is to make an optimised package that will integrate into your C++ project with ease to provide automatic fast neural networks. All you will have to deal with on your end is deciding network topologies and normalising the input data. It's nearly complete but most of the trouble is getting my head around the neural networks in the first place and making sure the classes actually work. I'll throw up a link to the github repo once I get version 1.0 working properly.

Anyways, apart from these things I'm back to writing and game design as well and will be looking into Unreal Engine 4 stuff as I'm hoping to learn that over the next few weeks. Not much else to say really other than it's been a fun few years at university but I'm looking forward to moving on to bigger and better things! 

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