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Week #6 Response/Week #6 Response

QianXing’s Weekly Response 6

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This week’s Star Trek is very shocking to me. It is mainly about Data creates another android named Lal and he treated her as his daughter. And he teaches her every aspects in human life.  This actually surprise me because because it is really hard to create a robot that knows how to think and act like a human because it requires a lot of knowledge in computer science. I am a computer science major  and I know how difficult it is to code a very simple program. Coding a robot with definitely take tremendous amount of time and experience in order to do that since you want the robot to act as a human, you will need a lot of complicated codes in order to do so.  This frightens me because Lal is not created by humans, she is created by another robot. This means that Data is smarter than majority of his crew mates. I have watched a lot of movies and shows about how robots start to fight against human beings because they believe they are smarter and they don’t want to be controlled by humans. And currently, even though the robots/technology do not have their own conscious yet, they are slowly substituting with humans. There is a supermarket near my high school and the supermarket didn’t hire any cashier, they use technology instead. The technology has improved so much recently, and I am not saying it is a bad thing. Since technology also helps humans in many ways especially in medical field

This week’s Star Trek also makes me feel emotional too. Even though both Data and Lal are robots, they behave very similar like a regular human. Especially when Lal are starting to pick up those lessons. She learns that the world is not as good as what she thought, she got bullied by her classmates, the captain of another star ship tries to take her away from her father. All of those are things that humans will go through when they are growing up. At the end, Lal can finally feel emotion, but this takes her life as well. She is no longer there.  Even though I do not support creating a lot of robot because I am afraid they will take over the world, I do want Lal to stay alive since she just begins to feel like a human. However, this can foreshadows that a robot is a robot, no matter how smart they are, they are not going to be humans because humans have emotions- one of the strongest weapon that a human has, while robots don’t. Therefore, I think that is the reason why the director decides to let Lal died. The directors doesn’t want there is a robot who is similar to a human while it is not considering as a human. Therefore, I started to worry about Data, because from this episode, Data behaves exactly like a human. He wants to protect his child. He wants his child to learn. All of those characteristics are very similar to humans. As a result, I made a prediction that Data will not be alive at the end of the Star Trek. Hopefully that is not true, but this is my thought. Robot is  robot. Human is human.

 

Reflection #1/Reflection #1

QianXing’s Reflection 1

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For this lab report, I learned many different things.  First of all, I learned how to gather information and cite them in the form of APA.  Before doing this project, I have no idea how we are suppose to cite the source, all I know was MLA. After I finished this project, I learned that MLA is mainly used for humanities, and APA is what we supposed to use as engineers. In additionally, for this project I looked through a lot of websites. I wanted to make sure that the information that I used on my lab is same or similar to most of the websites, so in this way I know I use a trustworthy source.  Also, I learned how to format a lab report by reading Lab Report guidelines- University of Sheffield. It is actually a lot different than what I learned in my high school. My high school taught me that lab report should be separated into 6 categories- introduction, hypothesis, materials , procedure, data and conclusion, the rest is not important. But in this lab report, I learned that a lab report should have a cover page, abstract, introduction, materials, procedure, results, discussion and a conclusion.  And every parts of it plays a different role and every parts of the lab report is equally important.

Over the course of this lab, I feel like one thing I did well was explaining.  I spend a lot of time on explaining my results and I explained why the results that I got is reasonable with sources online.  Also, I think my steps on how to perform the lab is very clear. I performed the steps by myself to incase that everything makes sense. However, one thing I should do differently in the future is that I should separate the beans into 3 groups instead of 2.  For this lab report, I only have 2 groups, one for water and one for coke. In the future, I should have another group which is mix of water and coke because in this lab report, I only prove that coke itself will not speed up the germination process, however, what if the coke is with water? What if I add water to the coke and reduce the concentration of sugar inside it? This is one thing I didn’t take into consideration when I was doing the report. Therefore, if I can do this report again, I would include this result.

One thing that I need to improve on will be my abstract because I thought we can’t include any results at the beginning of the lab, but the guidelines tell me to do so. Even though I did what the guidelines ask for, I still feel very uncomfortable about it.

For this lab report, I will give myself a 96 because I feel like I did everything that I possible can do for this project. I spend time researching online. I spend time go over the steps. I spend time go over the key components of a lab report. Even though my topic is really easy, I try my best to make people learn something, such as sugar inside the coke will prevent plants from absorbing nutrients and water, and if coke doesn’t have sugar like diet coke, you can use it for the plant and it will speed them up.

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