Featured projectIn Progress
Training an AI to Race in F-Zero
Experimenting with machine learning and genetic algorithms to train an AI agent to complete a race in F-Zero.
- Python
- Machine Learning
- Genetic Algorithms
Started September 6, 2026
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Charles Walsworth
First-Year Computer Science Student
University of Michigan
AI · Machine Learning · Robotics · Software Engineering
I am a first-year computer science student at the University of Michigan who enjoys building, learning, and exploring the intersection of AI, robotics, and real-world software.
Selected work
Featured projects
Things I am building, with write-ups covering what worked and what did not.
Lab
Latest experiments
Smaller builds and tests. Some of these grow into full projects; most do not, and that is the point.
Sep 2026Sample
Testing Object Detection on a Raspberry Pi (Sample)
Experimenting with real-time object detection on inexpensive hardware to see where the frame rate actually falls over.
- Python
- OpenCV
- Raspberry Pi
Aug 2026Sample
Can an LLM Review My Own Pull Requests? (Sample)
A weekend experiment pointing a language model at my own diffs to see whether the feedback is useful or just confident.
- Python
- LLMs
- Git
Aug 2026Sample
Watching A* and Dijkstra Disagree (Sample)
A small visualiser built to see where a heuristic actually changes the search, rather than reading that it does.
- TypeScript
- Algorithms
- Canvas
Writing
Latest posts
Notes on what I am learning, written mostly so I understand it better myself.
2 min readSample
What I Learned Building My First Computer Vision Model (Sample)
Lessons from training and debugging my first image classifier, most of which had nothing to do with the model.
- machine-learning
- python
- computer-vision
1 min readSample
Fitness Functions Reward What You Wrote, Not What You Meant (Sample)
Notes on why a genetic algorithm that is working perfectly can still produce something useless.
- genetic-algorithms
- machine-learning
- game-ai
1 min readSample
How I Read Machine Learning Papers as a Freshman (Sample)
A practical routine for getting something out of a paper when most of the notation is still unfamiliar.
- learning
- machine-learning
- research
Reading
Currently reading
Books, papers and documentation I have open right now.
Research PaperSampleReading
Attention Is All You Need
Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, and Niki Parmar
- transformers
- machine-learning
BookSampleReading
Deep Learning with Python
Francois Chollet
- deep-learning
- python
Aug 2026
Currently exploring
- Genetic algorithms
- Reinforcement learning
- Computer vision
- Robotics simulation