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 # Summer-MachineLearning
 
+This is a repository for summer intern student research. The idea is to 
+ * reproduce some machine learning paper to find gravitational wave events (e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.13442 Gravitational wave signal recognition of O1 data by deep learning)
+ * compute the p value/ false alarm rate for machine learning algorithm 
+ * extend the above paper to O2/O3a