Jayden Tactay

Graduate Assistant

I am a Graduate Assistant pursuing an M.S. in Computer Science, with a keen interest in machine learning and software engineering. I expect to graduate in Spring, 2025.


Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software Development


Projects

Comparative Analysis of Prompting Techniques for Text Classification Across Multiple LLMs 2024-12-05

Final project for ICS 661 that aims to gain insight into LLM prompting techniques and design.

Machine Learning Natural Language Processing Large Language Models Python

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HACC-Hui 2023-11-29

A program developed during ICS 414 that allows for easier team management for the Hawaii Annual Code Challenge.

Software Engineering JavaScript React

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That's My Spot! 2022-12-13

A program developed for ICS 314 that allows users to reserve parking stalls in the UH Manoa Zone 20 parking structure.

Software Engineering JavaScript HTML/CSS

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Sorter GUI 2021-10-24

A sorter GUI that visually displays different sorting algorithms in action.

Algorithms Sorting Python

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Essays

Through It All

11 Dec 2023

Another semester, another high-stress preparation period for finals week — scratch that, another high-stress 16 weeks. As I seek to wrap up my undergraduate studies and graduate next Spring semester, this semester has seen one of my highest workloads, and...

Software Engineering JavaScript React Bootstrap

Efficient is Sufficient

14 Dec 2022

As I write this, Fall 2022 is nearing its end, and finals week is in high gear. Thankfully, my ICS 314 course has no final “exam”, allowing me to redirect my stress to other finals (cough cough PHYS 272 and...

Software Engineering Coding Standards Design Patterns

This Just In: Design Patterns

30 Nov 2022

Developers encounter problems of some sort on a daily basis, especially with programming. Something fails to compile, a program does not run as it is intended, an error somewhere crashes a program. The recurrence of these issues eventually leads to...

Software Engineering Design Patterns

What's On Your 'Face?

06 Oct 2022

HTML and CSS are the languages of the Web. HTML lays the basic foundation of a page and CSS heavily supports the page with its styling capabilities. Going hand-in-hand, these two languages create almost the entirety of the web, but...

Software Engineering UI Frameworks Bootstrap

A Method to the Madness

22 Sep 2022

Picture this: you are a software engineer working on a team project. One team member, no matter how hard they try, just cannot get their code to work. No amount of brainstorming, debugging, or StackOverflow surfing on their end is...

Programming Coding Standards

Is There Such Thing As A Dumb Question?

08 Sep 2022

According to Carl Sagan, “there is no such thing as a dumb question”. As he says, all questions are asked to gain an understanding of some topic. While it might be true that no question is inherently dumb, how it...

Questions Answers StackOverflow

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