Alignment of the instructor to students for teaching is crucial. Students will always have different frames of reference from the instructor. It is critical for an instructor to seek alignment with students background, and view, this provides a feedback mechanism for the instructors own view and knowledge on a given topic.

My mentors have helped me understand not only the subject material, but how important, crucial, and vital a positive mentor-mentee relationship is to ensure the success of a student.

While others may consider learning disabilities as a hinderance, it has been shown that adding ‘noise’ during a machine learning training session can actually be beneficial in machine. In various disciplines it has been shown added noise during the training has been shown to increase model performance in unfamiliar settings, while lowering performance in testing [1][2]. Thus increasing generality of the model enabling better adaptability.

[1] Brunton, Steven L., and J. Nathan Kutz. Data-driven science and engineering: Machine learning, dynamical systems, and control. Cambridge University Press, 2022.

[2] Hinton, Geoffrey E. "Boltzmann machine." Scholarpedia 2, no. 5 (2007): 1668.

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