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Lab 16

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    During Lab 16 we had to implement the same skills from our last lab, lab 15, to create a web page with our two other games from code.org which were the color sleuth and the clicker game.The point of the game Color Sleuth was to try and figure out a box with slight differently color and click on it. If you were able to guess it right, you will gain a point, but if you guess wrong, you will lose 3 points.There are two players and the first one to 10 wins! The next game was the Clicker Game and this game was based on clicking apples with a certain mark on it and if you got it right, you gained a point, and if you guess wrong, you lose a points. This game was much simpler to code and create.    These skills are super important for a web designer because they make a creating a website more simpler and easier. The use iframes you are able to  display sections of web pages inside a one single html document and allows you to click through it. This is ver...

Lab 15

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During Lab 15 we had to mainly about embed our  digital scene and clicker game that we made collaboratively earlier this month.  In order to embed these apps into Dreamweaver I needed to first aquire the iframe URLs from code.org. After receiving the iframe link I placed the apps using the <iframe> tag into my html document. Then after that I placed the URL that I received earlier to let iframe retrieve the information of the apps and display on my website. I put both of the apps side by side to show off each one. I added my heading using the <h> tag and divs to create the styles.      These skills are super important for a web designer because they make a creating a website more simpler and easier. The use iframes you are able to  display sections of web pages inside a one single html document and allows you to click through it. This is very useful because as a consumer having to click through many pages can lead to a bad ...

CTE Expo Reflection

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     During the CTE expo I was able to intrigue a lot of freshman's by walking up to them first and bringing them over to show them my final project.  The objective of the expo was in order to show the incoming freshman's what the academy is all about and what we have been learning and experimenting with. To prepare for this expo I made sure my website and game was all ready and working. Also prepared a business casual outfit to look professional. I think what went really well was the fact that I was able to attract freshman's that were interested and answer all their questions they have. I also think what really went well was that I was able to be more confident since this was my second time in the expo, and because of this i was able to gather more than 1 freshman at a time and lead them to other classmates for a more smooth transition. For the next year expo what i can definitely improve is being able to transition the kids to my classmates more often to create a ...

Current Events 2

" Minority and dissident communities face a perplexing challenge in countries with authoritarian governments. They need to remain anonymous to avoid persecution, but also must establish a trustworthy identity in their communications." Computer science and researchers traveled to three countries to help assess their challenges of maintaining a secure social media presence. They designed an app for android that would create a safeguard for the members for their anonymity and reliability of posts. The three countries were Mongolia, Zambia, and Turkey. These countries suffer from restricted speech, like Russia and China.  " The problem with anonymous communication is you don't know if it's credible," said Miriam Metzger.  This is where the app SecurePost comes into play because it allows the community to create secure groups on famous media, like Facebook, to maintain consistent presence on social media. The app allows total anonymity and flags any potential pos...

Current Events 3

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" A robot created by Washington State University scientists could help elderly people with dementia and other limitations live independently in their own homes." The Robot Activity Support System uses sensors to determine where the residents are, what they need and what they are doing. The robot navigates itself through the rooms and provides video instructions on how to do things and can also lead their owner to objects they need. The CASAS researchers have been developing smart technology to help elderly with memory or other impairments.  Once the smart home sensors detect a failure in a human activity or task the, RAS receives a message to help.  The RAS is programmed to take medication with food and water. water plants and get ready to walk the dog. The person can then control through a tablet interface what they wanted to see, or ask it to do a task. The tablet interface were easy to use. The group still wants to upgrade the RAS performance with older adults t...

Current Events 4

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" To address the shortage of workers, many companies are considering robots. However, reliably grasping a diverse range of products remains a Grand Challenge for robotics." The robot system used in e-commerce mainly have suction grippers which limit their range of objects they can grasp. The UC decided to create a ambidextrous solution to create varieties of gripper types. As the image above shows the robot being able to grab different things using both "arms". This allows the system to decide which gripper is better for the situation. They plan on creating a learning reward function using sensors and geometry of each gripper. Once tested the researchers concluded that reward functions for parallel-jaw gripper and suction cup arm on a robot cleared bins at a rate of 300 pick up per hour and 95% reliability. " When you are in a warehouse putting together packages for delivery, objects vary considerably," said Goldberg. "We need a variety of grippers ...

Current Events 5

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 "Building on recent work programming computers to identify synthetic pathways leading to pharmaceutically complex molecules, researchers in Poland and South Korea have unveiled computerized methods to suggest only synthetic strategies that bypass patent-protected aspects of essential drugs." "When we started this project, I was somewhat skeptical that the machine would find any viable synthetic alternatives -- after all, these are blockbuster drugs worth gazillions of dollars, and I was sure that the respective companies had covered the patent space so densely that no loopholes remained," says senior author Bartosz Grzybowski, Developing the painstakingly increases purity and reduces the cost. The researchers decided to freeze each target molecule to allow the computer to approach on basis of mechanistic rule. In each run the program recommended the commercial synthesis.  "By algorithmically locating the key bonds on which patents hinge and propagating them ...