Vaishnavi’s GSSE blog

  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, ...

 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...

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. 

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://...

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...

 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...

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...

 I took a coding class before coming here, honors math computer applications. However, these classes did not have a focus on python, instead it focused on html and other types of code. I also did a two week course, girls who code, but once again it did not teach me python. I chose to do the beginner course with codeacademy. In it, I covered syntax, conditions, loops, and more. There was coding in which we created a platform in which a user could type in an answer. I learned that you can set if and elif statements to correlate to certain conditions. One example is if x>5, "Hello World" will print. It was really fun to learn, but as I got further in some of it was a little complicated.

 Today in class we discussed 3D printing. We started by watching a video that introduced the uses of 3D printing throughout society. Some examples were buildings, tampon holder, prosthetics, and body parts for animals. They are now already being used in more areas and scientists continue exploring that field. We then started talking about 3D printing specific to our classes. There were specific rules such as a specific height and width. The process itself had a few main steps and components to follow. The steps were to define the problem, research the problem, brainstorm solutions and ideas, create, test, improve upon the idea or creation, and lastly redesign.  We began by looking at our materials such as the Legos. We researched some ways to build a car such as with two wheels, three wheels, or four wheels. After researching we decided to do a three wheel car, similar to a tractor. This way it could carry an object while also being balanced. We brainstormed that we create a l...

a. Some of the animals and plants that I found were petunias, rohdea japonica, trillium, frisco european beech, crows, birds, bees, and fish. The flowers all belong in my roots because I have been involved in gardening from a young age. My mom loves flowers and would always bring me outside to garden with her. These flowers are a constant in my life and they are always there through rain and shine. The bees would be on the fraught line because although they are good for the environment, they sting me. I always have mixed feelings about them as they cause me to feel fear and harm, but help the environment. The crows and birds would be in the inside because they have been a big part of my neighborhood and are always around. The fish would not fit in my circle or tree at all just because I never had a pet as a kid and fish were not a big part of my life.  b. I observed a bird in the garden. When I first started observing it, it was jumping around in the grass and pecking at the ground...

We began class by discussing the definitions of STEM and the components involved. Some relations made were empiricism, scientific method, and critical thinking. This relates to how we make discoveries as well as make decisions in the STEM field. The basis of the theories we make depends on these thought processes and conspiracies already establishes. However, along with this there are also other field such as law, art, and history which also have connections to STEM. Each letter in STEM has connections to each other. Such as, science can help lead to advancements in technology and engineering while the vice versa also applies.      We also started the lesson itself by discussing demarcation and how although there are connections between fields; there is a time at when science ends and something else starts such as knowledge of technology or engineering. Although science exists in everything, whether we are making a thought process based on observations (empiricism), there...

I think that the car should choose straight into the obstacle because they should not be harming other lives. They signed up for the car, so they need to face the consequences. I think that self-driving cars are a complicated topic that require a lot of thought. They can be very helpful in preventing drunk drivers from driving and avoiding crashes when irresponsible drivers are behind the wheel. However, at the same time their can be bias in the programming which only leads to further issues. One such is the example that was referred to was the hay falling off of a truck. The car could either save themselves, kill the motorcycle rider, or lead to injuries in both car parties. I think that the car could also have bias in relation the programming as statistics are biased themselves. It would factor in age and could even make decisions depending on health issues, which would only cause further legal issues which would lead to uncertainty about who would pay the costs for the health issues...

 This blog is to record my time at governors school, specifically stem skills in society. In today's class we began by meeting the teachers and TA’s. After that we got to introduce ourselves to the teachers and class by what place we wanted to visit across the world. Along with this, I was introduced to the topics we will be covering throughout this course such as agriculture and coding. We also watched a Ted talk to introduce us to the concept of visualization. The speaker talked about a lot of random statistics such as breakups and fears. In addition to this, we watched a video about self-driving cars a now they can have algorithms that could be considered homicide. This was super interesting I had never considered in it a choice manner. I learned that there is so much to the “future” than just the idea of creating something, such as flying cars. I can apply this by focusing on his there are statistics for the smallest things such was when the mist break ups happen and the least....