Mtg 16/26: Thu-07-Mar-2024

Outline for Today

Midterm, Sustainability

Administration

Response to Responses

Response to responses

Today

  • Midterm
    • Didn’t mention Pocahontas in class before today, but you may be interested in this alternative audio track for the Disney film – Missing Matoaka
  • Sustainability

Summary

Summary

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Media

Transcript

Audio Transcript

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  • everyone today
  • I just
  • said Do you buy tickets you
  • know just say we need to come today
  • both 45 minutes long. So, last time for discussion
  • gold provides some resources for you to look at ahead of time
  • so I found out a little bit about the camera here
  • I'm going to try it out again
  • last week
  • my daughter has a sneeze like
  • so we'll find out what's going on with the camera anyone else
  • find out information about cameras and surveillance related
  • to our discussion last day
  • so we'll keep that in mind
  • so infographics
  • first assignment first graphic assignment is due on Monday at
  • the end of the day. questions or concerns
  • gotten some emails
  • if you send me an email, come and see me after class.
  • So I was trying to get
  • to get a better sense of
  • midterm exam results so I was fighting for the exam forget and
  • I did
  • so I'll go through the exam as promised today and I'll tell you
  • what I had for my answer key
  • I'm
  • I want to say
  • I'm not going
  • I may prison the positive I may make some adjustments. I might
  • make the mark out of less than 41. So I'll try and account for
  • issues. The ones that I made too difficult so I'll go through
  • this now and then
  • then we can discuss these and
  • then before next meeting I'll have grades updated online.
  • So some most people follow the instructions. I would say some
  • people gave me their birthday
  • SAS and
  • readers ation. So it was just the name and your student ID
  • that we were looking for fun on the farm. So first question what
  • did David Horowitz give to illustrate the kind of analysis
  • that could be done with just one person's data
  • so I have D as the option as occur as the best answer for
  • that
  • so who is Damon Horowitz? Moral operating system Yeah.
  • Which movie was not mentioned in class? It was Pocahontas
  • and she class you have a beautiful story about the
  • alternative audio tracks that was created through the Disney
  • version. So if you have us I guess for the DVD or VHS
  • anyone know what VHS is
  • if you have a copy of that movie, play the video and then
  • listen to the alternative idea which tells a story of a real
  • life person was one of the first missing and murdered indigenous
  • women so I'll put that link up
  • and go can call on fans we're done that's
  • it I haven't done it yet. Related I intend to assume
  • Okay. According to the code and more of the same can be a whole
  • new thing. What is the impact of exponential growth on
  • perception?
  • Makes things changes appear sudden
  • 714-816-6428.
  • So if we have something that's
  • this size
  • and we believe we're only half full
  • we've got plenty of room
  • but
  • you can check my math
  • so this is two to the
  • right to the zero to the one
  • for 234 and so on
  • according to the ACM code of ethics, which is not a primary
  • ethical obligation of competing professionals so that's D seek
  • personal gain at the expense of others.
  • What was it for?
  • D
  • so five is D as well. So these are the lower levels on Bloom's
  • Taxonomy.
  • Which fallacy represents misrepresents someone's argument
  • to make it easier to attack?
  • Straw Man straw
  • Yeah. Straw Man. So we make we simplify the other person's
  • argument misrepresented so it's easy to knock down
  • ad hominem ad hominem
  • is
  • about attacking the person instead of the argument.
  • So then seven, which of these dark, dark patterns is
  • asymmetric?
  • So this was a quiz question. So all of them are asymmetric.
  • And what is the ad hominem fallacy. So that's a attacking
  • the person making the argument rather than the argument itself.
  • Nine what does the SIFT acronym represent? Stop, investigate.
  • Find and trace. So that's B.
  • What is the red herring fallacy?
  • Introducing an irrelevant topic to divert attention away from
  • the original issue
  • what do you hope to find with the SIFT method?
  • This was gonna say maybe this was too much. Because remember
  • that sift is stop, investigate, find. And trace so the find is
  • from the acronym so the tag that goes with F is find better
  • coverage
  • so D
  • who thinks that's clever Oh, thanks. That's me.
  • Ah, three. Go.
  • I don't know why it didn't show them. The first time.
  • Okay, can you see that? All right. So the question was,
  • according to Steve McConnell, what's theirs doing? Analysis
  • and judgment
  • and that was D.
  • How do dark patterns affect user behavior? That's B. They
  • remember you they manipulate us into taking actions they may not
  • want.
  • What does David Horowitz suggest is essential for making ethical
  • decisions
  • So, these are a few of the lines from the video but he is best.
  • engaging in thoughtful reflection and discussion. Which
  • attribute of dark patterns involve involves inducing false
  • beliefs. And users through misleading statements or
  • omissions.
  • See deceptive
  • description of which cone is the Domesday Book mentioned
  • so that's a there's one in the midst of plenty. Do you remember
  • the
  • story it's about 1000 years old. And then more recently, the
  • aversion
  • to laziness.
  • More seriously ask those who have seen it LaserDisc. Enough
  • the size CV they're not around anymore so even though they
  • digitized, the format they chose was not accessible anymore so
  • they were in danger of losing
  • that. That effort of digitizing the Domesday Book
  • so other examples of there's
  • one in the midst of plenty if you're not on the web if you're
  • not searchable, findable by Google. It's a bit late. You
  • don't you're not there
  • so 17 what was described as a hidden goal, driving the
  • direction of technology.
  • And that's D the race for attention.
  • 18 What does KIPP stand for?
  • That's a Canadian information processing society.
  • 19 What does the acronym care in the proactive care process
  • represent?
  • Consider analyze, review, evaluate. So that's B. 20. What
  • does fear stand for?
  • That's also B skills framework for the Information Age. What is
  • the purpose of the proactive care process? 21. To help
  • competing professionals think through ethical issues that's
  • see.
  • 22 What can be said about the relationship between ethics and
  • law
  • so that's the
  • ethics and law can deviate from each other. Which ethical
  • approach prioritizes relationships and emphasizes
  • empathy and compassion
  • the care ethics lens that's B.
  • 24 which is not one of the listed which is not listed as
  • one of the six six ethical lens lenses in a framework for
  • ethical decision making. And that's also be the morality
  • lens.
  • 25 What is not a valid reason to avoid showing who answered what
  • into your courses pull
  • in such a large class students remain anonymous in practice.
  • I struggle with this wording on this one. Makes sense? So just
  • say Germany was the gentleman's house anyway so that your son
  • hates for a few seconds. Nobody. That's not valid if that makes
  • sense.
  • That came up in class the Tuesday before the exam
  • Okay, 2626 What risks do free societies face in managing the
  • flow of bets so that one is a being undercut by their own
  • principle by their own principles of information
  • freedom.
  • According to the ACM code of ethics, what is the primary
  • focus of computing professionals?
  • So that's C
  • contributing to society and human well being
  • was one of the social roles of privacy
  • that's D as well not as well as D allowed allowance for
  • deviations from prevailing social norms.
  • What is the impact of digital technologies on privacy
  • expectations?
  • Be at a shift in thinking about what should be private
  • I'm 30. What did Cambridge analytics do with the data
  • harvested through Cogan space Facebook app, the quiz app. So
  • it was used to analyze voters identify likely voters and
  • tailor the messages to them. So that was C 31. Which web search
  • resources did we do? Research? Let me try it again. Which web
  • search resources did we use to do research using sift in class
  • so that was the day we're talking about question, ideas
  • for questions, suggestions for questions and so made up one on
  • the board.
  • So it's a and b which is D 31. Under under the D 31.
  • Stop with
  • those kinds of comments. So how did que industries violate
  • respect for privacy of the ACM code of ethics?
  • So as I read that, that's maybe not the most clear phrasing of
  • the question. So how did you industries from the case study
  • violate the respect for privacy principle of the ACM code of
  • ethics?
  • So that was B
  • failing to respect the privacy of innocent bystanders?
  • How does the use of encryption impact personal privacy and
  • security
  • enhances both personal privacy and security? See?
  • What is the impact of perfect copies and instant communication
  • on intellectual property?
  • They have read see they have rendered traditional
  • intellectual property laws less relevant
  • How can encryption technology be described in the context of
  • intellectual property?
  • As a tool to protect intellectual property that's be
  • what is emphasizes a crucial role for optimists in the age of
  • technology in the era of technology?
  • To articulate a shared fate for humanity that's B that came from
  • your undivided attention podcast.
  • Which of the following is an ethical concern related to
  • artificial intelligence and computing?
  • So I said
  • I have EA is the best option preventing discrimination and
  • bias.
  • 38 What unexpected consequence occurs when the broom is
  • animated by the Sorcerer's Apprentice
  • it becomes uncontrollable.
  • That's a
  • what is a fundamental aspect of cognitive Liberty
  • the right to control one's own thoughts and cognitive processes
  • it's a from the story about the Tim Hortons app but it's a key
  • consideration for businesses when developing a mobile app.
  • Be only collect information that is immediately needed and which
  • of the following best describes the key characteristic of free
  • software licenses? And that's see the grant the freedom to
  • run, study, modify and distribute the software
  • that seem okay
  • So what are the what's the Montreal Protocol?
  • Dealing with the ozone layer. So require drastic action and it
  • brought together people, leaders from around the world and they
  • decided to take decisive action and it was up
  • Montreal Protocol so in the latest episode of the podcast
  • pod reach
  • the guest
  • said we need to do more of these things.
  • So what did you think? About the pre banking?
  • So the idea of providing something that is proactive when
  • we talk about trade visual forgeries before before us get
  • into the news, and people are commenting on this being real
  • in Taiwan natively. The path of demonstrating how to start what
  • to look for. People became inoculated against the impact of
  • these digital forgeries.
  • We also talked about using social.
  • So why build bridges? So finding ways to have people focus on
  • common values they have instead of focusing on the issues that
  • divide that divide us
  • so the podcast is talking about
  • democracy.
  • So excited just about resizing democracy as a possibility dealt
  • with issues of sustainability
  • so how is sustainability computing concerned?
  • Any ideas
  • so maybe
  • the second
  • most empirical way the middle one to spend extra cycles extra
  • power on
  • on inefficient algorithms.
  • So that's obstruction important in computer science
  • we hear a lot about in classes
  • so it's a powerful tool for analyzing writing code so that
  • we can want to share
  • so we can simplify problem nicely keep for us that helps us
  • write better code that's more efficient. But it also
  • show is good for solving problems writing code, but it's
  • bad because it's.
  • So
  • it can be bad because it destroys the connections and the
  • context of things.
  • So turns provided so that's not necessarily bad if we're talking
  • about GPUs. The board going through your personal computer
  • to turn it into a very powerful computers. Last week, Tim doll
  • shirt from EA was talking about when he started the graphics
  • side of the desk he recruited me from Silicon Graphics
  • Incorporated was
  • $68,000 a workstation yeah
  • that was the norm for quite a while, very expensive
  • workstations. Then came along and modified graphics chip and
  • we don't have Silicon Graphics anymore. Our company doesn't
  • exist
  • so if you're just thinking about having a piece to plug in to a
  • larger system then we're not we don't understand the context of
  • the pieces and you're missing important information.
  • Like the scarcity of resources.
  • The sustainability of computing concern.
  • So how many people want to access to
  • acquire the list of things to do. A few hands up and nodding.
  • Heads. So how did you get into that?
  • information and
  • making sure to get good information and avoiding
  • misinformation
  • You ever thought about this
  • so maybe one day sustainable approach to computing and
  • blockchain if we're doing a proof of work that takes a lot
  • of CPU power.
  • So there are other ways to save other ways that are less
  • computationally intensive.
  • Thought I'd turn the screen
  • anyway
  • final closing thought with suitability repeating seems like
  • five pack.
  • positive associations years ago prefabrication has the least
  • rejects chips became very hot during toxic waste sites. So.
  • So there are some things that are lurking perhaps we think
  • about I think there's lots of potential to address these
  • issues. We made a positive impact
  • feel empowered to
  • take action.
  • I'll try harder to inspire you next day. Anyway, shall we call
  • it a day any questions or concerns before we go?

Responses

What important concept or perspective did you encounter today?

  • Today I learnt about the relationship between computing profession and sustainability.
  • midterm result
  • discussed midterm answers
  • The midterm answers and the potential results and mistakes i have made
  • discussed the midterm
  • Sustainability in computing
  • sustainability of information in the digital age.
  • We talked a little bit about the midterm and then the assignments
  • Nothing, we just discussed about midterm result.
  • Sustainability in computing
  • The Montreal Protocol was one of the important concept i have encountered.
  • Sustainability
  • protocols against specific harms that AGI could bring
  • How sustainability can affect computer science in a positive as well as negative way. Positive by using abstraction so that the resources are not wasted on inefficient code. Negative when it stops the connection between the code.
  • no
  • About prebunking
  • We discussed the midterm questions, etc.
  • From today’s podcast, I learned about Montreal protocols which aids to protect the stratospheric ozone layer and any harm that AGI brings.
  • The concept which we encontered today was we related to sustanibility
  • Montreal protocol
  • Computing and digital resources seem infinite and replenishable, but it is important to consider the power computers use and have in relation to sustainability.
  • The infographic part 1 due date was extended. The exam questions were very much related to everything taught in class.
  • Sustainabilty
  • Blockchain computing is severely unsustainable. I learned what blockchain was today.
  • We discussed the midterm in class.
  • I found it cool that we are going to watch a movie in class, I assume the next exam will have questions from the Social Dilemna so I hope we get some sort of review for it closer to the final exam.
  • nothing
  • Nothing important today.
  • It was midterm review
  • Answers of the midterm
  • Went over midterm answers.
  • How does being watched affect our behavior and actions?
  • An important concept I encountered today was the concept of sustainability. And what types of sustainability there are, such as environmental, social, and economic sustainability. I never really realized that computing does have an impact on the environment and the resources of a company. Also, there are algorithms used to maximize the use of scarce resources and to help with the environmental impact of computing. And I did some research and there are multiple ways to “Go Green” while computing.
  • not really
  • No
  • midterm solutions
  • Why sustainability is a computing concern. Such as algorithms that are efficient to maximize the use of scarce resources.
  • Midterm review
  • sustainability
  • the imp concept today was the designs of vending machines
  • Sustainability in Computing. I think it is very important because I believe everyone that has some kind of technology should be concerned about the impacts of having everything being digital now. It may get to the point where technology could pollute more than gases, as an example. I feel this way because there are people who always want the best technology and sometimes those people do not care about how their previous devices are disposed off, which leads to pollution in the environment.
  • Future-proofing
  • I learned the importance of AI
  • How sustainability applies to computing. We can use more efficient algorithms in our code in order to maximize resources.
  • Midterm Review, little bit about "Democracy In the Age of AI"
  • How sustainability is a computing concern
  • I learned the correct answers to the midterm which helped me understand the content in this course better
  • We talked about sustainability and how some places that make chips for computers create toxic waste.
  • Sustainability
  • Midterm answers
  • Today we discussed about them midterm paper and about assignments
  • Sustainability
  • Midterm reviews
  • discussed midterm
  • No
  • Midterm answer key
  • Yes
  • A brief discussion about the midterm paper.
  • Why monteral protocol is important
  • Today we discussed about midterm solutions.
  • Sustainability and discussed about midterm
  • it was on midterm results.
  • No
  • Today we talked briefly about sustainabilliy in regards to computers/computer science. Sustainabillity in computers includes things such as efficient algorithms, resources and hardware, and quality digital information and resources.
  • Today we discussed about midterm result
  • We talked about the midterm and I think a solutions sheet should be posted on ur courses
  • Today I found out that I kind of bombed the midterm. Oops.
  • Midterm paper
  • There was not important concept
  • Talked about midterm
  • Sustainability
  • Sustainable Computing Infrastructure
  • EVERYTHING
  • No
  • class
  • Review of the mid term exam
  • midterm
  • Nothing
  • Midterm
  • Security
  • Today we went over the midterm and briefly talked about sustainability.
  • Today we talked about the midterm answers
  • We went over the midterm answers.
  • Today in class we talked about sustainability and how it affects computing concerns. we also talked about algorithms that are efficient to maximize uses of scarce resources such as the black chain proof of work/proof of stake abstraction.
  • Montreal protocols
  • An important perspective I gained today was the fact that not-so-good things can come out of abstraction such as commodities
  • we went over midterm exam solutions today
  • Midtern ans`
  • A computing concerns about algorithms that are efficient to maximize the use of scare resources and abstraction. It is good for writing code, solving problems and bad because it destroys the connectionsand context of things : commodification
  • vending machine
  • the whole midterm sequence
  • I got to know about sustainability in Information technology.
  • Sustainability and its importance on Information society. The efficiency of algorithms and the conservation of resources like computing power and iterations.
  • I got to know about midterm solution today.
  • Lecture was very informative
  • Sustainability
  • That optimizing code makes computers that run it use less power which is good for the environment.
  • I encounter the way of thinking the answers.
  • Sustainable computing infrastructure.
  • midterm
  • nothing
  • Solution to midterm
  • sustainable infrastructure and it development
  • It was simple nothing else
  • about midterm
  • Sustainable life and midterm review
  • We reviewed over the midterm answers today!
  • Sustainable IT infrastructure.
  • Marks of midterm
  • Discuss about the midterm answer
  • the concept which we did today was related to sustainability
  • Sustainable computing infrastructure
  • We discussed the solutions to the midterm.
  • An important concept I encountered today is sustainability, and how it should be treated as a computing concern. Computing professionals must devise ideal algorithms and efficient programs in order to save resources. A possible solution to this efficiency is using a powerful tool called abstraction.
  • Sustainability
  • The midterm's answers
  • Today in class we discussed the midterm.
  • Answers for midterm
  • I find some important concepts through analyzing the midterm exam

Was there anything today that was difficult to understand?

  • No, the lecture was informative.
  • no
  • no
  • today's lecture was simple and clear, everything was good
  • No
  • No
  • Nothing of particular difficulty to understand today.
  • no
  • No
  • How to be sustainable in computer
  • logical fallacy of the exam kind of difficult to understand.
  • None
  • no
  • no
  • Sustainability related to computer
  • No
  • No every thing was perfect
  • No
  • No
  • nope
  • Nope!
  • no
  • No, everything was pretty easy to understand.
  • No
  • No
  • No.
  • no.
  • no
  • No
  • no
  • No
  • none
  • NO it was on point
  • Could AI even be used to help a democracy flourish?
  • Nothing at all
  • Nothing in particular.
  • No
  • Nothing was difficult to understand
  • No
  • Couple of answers to midterm paper
  • nothing
  • NO
  • NO
  • no
  • No
  • No
  • No
  • No
  • No
  • No
  • No
  • no
  • No
  • Not really.
  • No
  • Nothing today was difficult to understand.
  • NO
  • No
  • Nope
  • No
  • No
  • NO
  • No
  • no
  • No
  • no
  • Not really
  • Nothing
  • No
  • Not today.
  • nothing much
  • no
  • n/a
  • no
  • Nope
  • no
  • nope
  • I understood the materials today
  • social dilema
  • no
  • How do we actually use SIFT in our assignment of Infographic.
  • Going over the midterm, I realized I need to work on a lot of the articles and revisit them.
  • I don't think there was anything difficult to understand.
  • Nope
  • not really
  • Not really.
  • none
  • no
  • Nothing
  • No
  • no
  • No
  • N/A
  • Nothing
  • No
  • no it was a good lecture
  • No, there wasn't anything difficult to understand in the lecture today.
  • Nope, I understood everything that happened in class today.
  • no
  • No
  • No
  • No
  • Not really

Was there anything today about which you would like to know more?

  • I would like to know more about the montreal protocols and AGI.
  • no
  • no
  • There isn't anything id like to know more, as midterm results and up coming assignments are already explained in full details
  • No
  • No
  • Block chaining
  • no
  • Would like to receive midterm grades.
  • i would be grateful if we can revise logical fallacy.
  • How sustainability is a computing concern
  • no
  • no
  • Nothing much
  • No
  • it was good lecture
  • No
  • I would've liked to know about what can be done to reduce the risks of sustainability in terms of computation. There is no doubting issues such as the loss of connections can cause harm, but how can we minimize something like that?
  • Marks
  • nope
  • Not particularly.
  • no
  • Midterm marks.
  • No
  • Grades
  • Know what i got on midterm! :)
  • no
  • I would like to know more about how companies try to maximize their sustainability and how certain algorithms has helped them.
  • no
  • I would like to know more about sustainability. I am curious if we are trying to be sustainable in such a way that we are using less material or in such a way that we are only using useful data
  • no
  • No
  • none
  • really not
  • What does a functioning democracy look like in the age of artificial intelligence?
  • I'd like to learn more about the impacts of AI
  • More about how we can use the Montreal Protocol to learn about methods of protection against the harms of AGI.
  • No
  • An illustration on how to act with sustainability
  • Not really
  • nothing
  • NO
  • NO
  • no
  • No
  • No
  • No
  • About the hams that cameras can cause
  • No
  • Yes
  • no
  • Yes
  • Not in particular.
  • No
  • I would like to know more about sustainability in computers.
  • no
  • No
  • Nope
  • Not really
  • No
  • NO
  • No
  • no
  • No
  • the answer of midterm
  • Yes
  • Assignment looks bit tricky
  • No
  • More about the topic we learned at the end of class as we spent most of the time going over the midterm.
  • no
  • no
  • n/a
  • no
  • I would like to know more about how sustainability can be controlled
  • no
  • nope
  • I want to know more about the infographic
  • social dilema
  • no i learned a lot more today
  • I would like to more about sustainability in IT.
  • I guess I got to know about all question's answers.
  • Today we get enough basic knowledge given by professor…
  • No
  • I want to score better in finals.
  • none
  • no
  • More about infographic assignment
  • No
  • yes about assignments
  • No
  • N/A
  • Energy requirement of Cryptography
  • No
  • No
  • no it was a good lecture and covered all the topics
  • No, there isn't anything else I would like to know more about from today's lecture.
  • I would like to learn more about abstraction and the benefits/consequences of using it in our programs.
  • Sustainability
  • No
  • No
  • No
  • No

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