Tech Post 3 : Atoms

Hi guys,

In technology right now we are learning about atoms. Atoms are what make up our world and they are pretty complicated. An atom is made up of Neutrons, Protons, and Electrons. In the center of atom, there is a nucleus. The nucleus is made up of Protons and Neutrons. Neutrons have a neutral charge and the Protons have a positive charge. The neutrons keep the Protons away from each other because they can’t touch. Surrounding the nucleus are Electrons that orbit around the nucleus. The Electrons have a negative charge. Depending on how many Protons and electrons there are you can tell if the atom is positively charged or negatively charged. That’s all for now. I’ll be posting again soon, bye!

Breakout EDU

Hey guys,

Today in Tech class we did a breakout EDU. This is a game where you have to find clues to open locks that are scattered around the room. You have a certain amount of time and you have two hints if you need them. Our class was split up into two teams which each had our own clues. We had three locks, a direction lock, a word lock, and a number lock. There was also an addition bonus lock, but only one for the two teams and this was also a number lock. My team finished in about twenty minutes and it was really fun. I hop that I get to do one again soon.

Starting Technology And Safety: Tech Post #1

Hey guys,

I just started the Technology quarterly, and we learned about safety when using all the different tools. Some of the different tools include drill presses and soldering irons. There are twelve rules that you should always follow when  working with these tools.                                                                                                                                                                            1. Slow down, think before you act                                                                                                                                                          2. Dress responsibly. Tie back long hair. No baggy clothing and dangling jewelry                                                                      3. Don’t assume you know training before tools.                                                                                                                                  4. Power tools need concentration. NO talking when using machinery.                                                                                        5. Protect your eyes. Always safety glasses wear.                                                                                                                                6. Before using a machine get instruction, get permission, inspect machine.                                                                                7. Use all guards when using machines. Shut off and before making adjustments, unplug.                                                      8. Power tools are dangerous. Never leave a tool running unattended.                                                                                          9. Soldering irons are hot. Be cautious. Soldering irons heat to over 842 degrees fahrenheit.                                                  10. Xacto knives, saws, and awis, oh my. Be careful when handling sharp things.                                                                      11. Walk all the time. Never nudge or push someone.                                                                                                                        12. Report all accidents. Burns, cuts, scratches, and splinters, no matter how small.

Those are the twelve safety rules for technology, and if you can follow those you should be good to go. That’s all I have to tell you, Bye.

Ai Automation

Hello again. In my last post I talked a little bit about ai automation and I wanted to tell you guys more about my research. In the past, ai was programmed to do tasks that happen over and over again. A big group of factory jobs were affected from this. Automation that is happening now, and will happen a lot more in the future is automating jobs that are not repetitive and predictable. I interviewed James Manyika, senior partner at McKinsey & Company and Chairman and Director of the McKinsey Global Institute, and we talked about how some of the things that are being automating are things in our head that we don’t fully understand, and we can’t just write them down as an algorithm on paper. It is hard to predict how many jobs will be automated in future years though, because the only way to figure that out is from the information of the past, and we know that the future of this technology will be much different than what has happened in the past.

 

There are many predictions about the future of our society once automation gets really bad. One prediction is that if everyone’s jobs are automated, than most people will have no money and the small group of people that still have jobs will be extremely rich and the rest of society will be extremely poor. Another prediction is that when some bad people get their hands on very powerful ai, they can use it on machines with bad intentions and could potentially turn automation to make powerful weapons. A third prediction is that if machines get so smart and so powerful, they will be able to duplicate, and they will be running our society, and we would potentially be taking orders from them.  

 

Another part of this topic that many people are worried about is how we are going to be able to adapt to all of the changes that are, and are going to occur to our workforce and economy. A concept that people are going to have to take into account going into the future is called lifelong learning. Lifelong learning is the idea that you are open to learning new skills your whole life instead of going down one very narrow path for a profession at an early age, a profession that could get automated in the future. Lifelong learning is good because in the workforce of the future, you are going to need to do more than one job to maintain a living. This is because many tasks in certain jobs are being automated, but not entire jobs, so jobs won’t be paying as much since you would only be doing certain tasks. Lifelong learning will help us overcome any problems that we might have with our jobs being automated because we will already know how to do many other jobs.

 

While less than five percent of all U.S jobs have already been automated, 60% of 30% of all U.S jobs can be automated. This means that 60% of the things that someone needs to do in their job can be automated, and the other 40% can’t. Most people think that the lowest paying jobs are the easiest to automate, but this is actually not true. Most of the jobs that are being automated in our country are middle class jobs like accountants and auditors, which are two repetitive jobs. Many other middle class like these are also at risk. Most low class jobs on the other hand are not at risk for automation in upcoming years. This is because most of these jobs require many different skills as the demands of the job may be different every day. Examples of these jobs are caretakers, and janitors. This is a problem because if we don’t have a balenced society with people in the middle there will just be wealthy people and poor people. 

 

High School Teachers .8      
Physical Therapists 2.1
Lawyers 3.5
Mathematicians 4.7
Electricians 14.8
Airline Pilots 18.1
Computer Hardware Engineers 22.5
Barbers 79.5
Real Estate Agents 86.4
Accountants and Auditors 93.5
Umpires and Referees 98.3

 

This chart shows the percent chance that a job has of being automated.

 

If you are interested in this topic and would like to learn more about it you can check out some of the links below. Please comment your thoughts on the topic, and or share further information that you know about it that wasn’t discussed in the post.

 

https://www.google.com/search?biw=1366&bih=637&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=WuH8WsXKMoeRjwSu2ZKYBQ&q=automation+cartoons&oq=automation+cartoons&gs_l=img.3…7986.50704.0.50872.48.26.1.0.0.0.1137.2183.4-1j1j0j1.3.0….0…1c.1.64.img..44.4.2190.0..0j0i67k1.0.Y8XXPGpMpC8&safe=active&ssui=on#imgrc=176C5uKPVfHjJM:

This is a cartoon about automaton

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSKi8HfcxEk

This is a video that I used for a lot of my research

Artificial Intelligence

Hi guys. Recently I’ve been looking into a problem that our country has faced and will continue to face more as time goes on. This problem is that artificial intelligence is automating jobs in our country. Artificial intelligence is a type of computer science that can think, solve, and analyse data. Artificial Intelligence is taking our jobs, and it isn’t all completely bad. For the creators of these robots and this technology, they are making a lot of money. Business owners are also making more money because with ai they are doing thing faster and cheaper.

Ai all started at a meeting/class at Dartmouth college. It was presented as computers that can think, not just run by programming

I will continue to give you guys updates on my research, jokes about my topic, and much more stuff like that. Here is a link to a video to see artificial intelligence in action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P18EdAKuC1U

Jokes

Here are two joke that I would like to share with you guys. This first one is one that I found in the book that I am reading called Into The Cosmos by Jack Cheng about space and rocketry. Here is the first joke.

Why do moon rocks taste better than earth rocks? Because they’re a little meteor

Here is the next one, I made it up myself.

What do Golden State Warriors fans order from Indian restaurants? Curry

Washington D.C

Many of us have learned about the Decoration Of Independence, Constitution, and Bill Of Rights. Not many of us have seen all three of these in real life though. This February break I was fortunate enough to see these three important documents at the Archives Of The United States Of America in Washington D.C. This is only one of the many museums/monuments that we went to over the three day trip. The documents were amazing to see, but not what I imagined. I imagined a big grand paper with stars and stripes all over, but instead it was about the same size of a page of a newspaper. Besides the writing, their was just signatures of many important people. It was exciting to see my countries history, and I hope you guys had a great break if you were on one.

Bradly’s Writing

Today, we celebrated our buddies writing. Bradley, my Buddy, wrote a story called Stitches. Bradley says “I like to write because it is fun.” In the story, we experience how fast things can change as Bradley begins the story with fear, and ends being brave. He doesn’t have a favorite part because he likes it all. The story took Bradley three days to write. He also says “I am proud of my writing because it has lots of detail.” Bradley enjoys writing and will continue to do it, and I can’t wait to read what he will write next.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year everybody. I had a great New Years eve and I hope that you did too. I went to Popojito, the new Mexican restaurant in Scarsdale village. I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys Mexican food. When I got home my family and I enjoyed an ice-cream pie, that my dad made. It was a layer of chocolate ice-cream on the bottom, Reese’s peanut butter cups in the middle, vanilla ice-cream on top of that, on topped off with chocolate sauce. My New Years resolutions for the blog are to post a ton of jokes, keep posting my writing, and other important things that I would like to post. To me though, the most important thing is that you enjoy my posts, and they either give you a laugh, give you something to think about, or inspire you. I hope you have an amazing 2018, and I will be posting soon, bye.