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6/29/23 STEM in Society OP ED

  Euthanasia Should be Legalized in All 50 States of the United States On a deathbed, sick, crying, and in pain. That is the life that many patients with terminal illnesses face; pain that has no end. Approximately 40% of the population, about 133 million people, in the United States have incurable chronic diseases. Many of them wish to end their life to escape the suffering that they have faced. Euthanasia is physician-assisted suicide for people in extreme pain, however, it is only legal in a few states such as California, Colorado, Oregon, and Vermont. But, euthanasia should be legal in all 50 states because it allows for death with dignity, psychological relief, and ends their pain. To begin, one of the most common phrases related to death by euthanasia is “Death with Dignity.” A real-life example of a woman is Diane Pretty, who is suffering from motor neuron disease. She wanted to be in control of her death, a death where she would not slowly fade away and become incompetent, ...
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6/26/23 STEM Skills visualization

 1.  I created both of these by changing the colors to green. I also changed the latitude and longitude of all the circles so some of them went off of the page. This led to the planets being out of order.  2.    In the second visualization exercise, I used a  Python program named maps.py along with a csv data file to create a map with the locations from the program. The maps.py program read and stored the CSV data. Then it completed a function from the imported folium library to create leaflet maps. Through a loop, the program printed the map with the dotted locations from the data file and ultimately saves it as an HTML file, which you can run on your browser. 3.   For  the third visualization exercise, I used a file named amanda_temp.txt, which consists of two columns of data with temperature and thermistor. The second column provides the best estimation of the corresponding depth of the thermistor, measured in meters. I used ChatGPT to dev...
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6/22/23 STEM in Society AI in Society

AI is becoming more prevalent in today's society. It has a bigger impact and more and more people are using it to complete simple activities or even have conversations with. This leads to the question of whether AI is conscious. I would believe that AI is conscious if it was able to relate to personal experiences and give answers as such rather than taking from others. One example is the use of empathy rather than sympathy. I would ask questions such as what makes them feel sad, happy, proud, and other emotions. Furthermore, I would ask for previous situations that the AI had faced.  I look at it like this because I believe humans are conscious and have created their emotions and consciousness from experiences. I would expect relations from AI from their past experiences to their emotions. 
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6/22 STEM SKILLS AI Article Summary

When using AI it is important for one to know that AI is only what it is able to draw from the web and what its creators made it to be. Because of this AI can end up being bias. If the computer scientists who wrote the code of the AI had some inherent racism or sexism, it could potentially be embedded in the code they wrote. Even if that does not happen, their can be bias based off blogs that AI scans that could be sexist or racist as well as by looking at some striking headlines. Specifically, In the article written from personal experiences, it was addressed that when testing out AI with human participants in situations such as face ID, bias can be formed. The test subjects usually have similar features such as light skin and male, which makes it harder for dark women to be identified. This is a common happening as other AI has shown to have the same attributes. Many times, AI reflects the developers who are men in a male dominated field.  2. summarize these two articles https://...
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6/20/23 CAFOs STEM in Society

CAFOs are industrial-sized live-stock operations. They are a controversial topic as they have both advantages and disadvantages. A term that could be used to discuss it is intersectionality. Intersectionality is the idea of multiple factors coming together. CAFOs are known for their pollution to the environment through their run off as well as unethical practices. Animals are cramped together, fed uneatable food, and debeaked. They are kept from the sunlight and live in horrible conditions. However, this intersects with an advantage of CAFOs. CAFOs have cheap food, which allows for people of all classes to have access to meat. Food that comes from family farms is usually considered organic and costs more. However, its usually that the more privileged are buying it. This leads to a pattern of the the richer continuing to eat better while the poor suffer. This intersects because although the animals are suffering, the population of humans has an advantage.  Furthermore, CAFOs are abl...
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6/16 Titanic AI STEM Skills

 AI is a way for technology to develop the ability to perform tasks like a human. It can develop emotions or reasoning abilities. However, AI can also be used to complete other tasks such as predictions, scanning, even personalized shopping. In today's world AI is used to create more opportunities for people and corporations to become technologically advanced. Furthermore, in the future it is hoped to help with cars and the use of robots in everyday life.  My team and I first started by discussing the chosen people. We started with the idea that all women would survive, however as we progressed in our project, we took into consideration the class. Women that were in the 3rd class were assumed to have died, while women in 1st class survived. Women in 2nd class had a varied amount of survival rates. When talking about the men, only first class would have survived. It was difficult to decide, but we also assumed that all children survived.  When doing the code it was a littl...
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6/13 STEM Skills 3D Printing

I have never done 3D printing before, so this was a new experience. I chose to use the onshape platform to create my design. I originally started with tinkercade, however I realized soon enough that it did not have the materials or shapes that I wanted. So, when I started experimenting with onshape I realized that I could achieve a keychain by creating layers and a hole on the sketch. I started by designing a square with a rounded edge. I then put a hole for a chain to go through at the rounded edge. I followed all of this by putting my initials on the top.  I learned how to use onshape as well as tinkercad and interact with the websites through a multitude of ways. It was interesting to take into account the dimensions that we were given and create an object off of that. I also learned to create a depth on the object that I am creating, as I forgot that in the beginning and was not able to complete other steps.  https://cad.onshape.com/documents/fdd584f772081ddc2c224b71/w/417...
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