Hakeem Leonce

Reflection #1/Reflection #1

Hakeem Leonce Reflection #1

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After looking back through my project proposal, my reflection on how it came out is that I am extremely satisfied with the end result. Speaking in regards to its creativity and individuality and it was able to take principles and concepts from both technical labs and project proposal and morphed into a report that reaches a wide spectrum of audience while maintaining its technical and formal integrity. It is formal but in a very simplistic form and this was accomplished by my time put in studying formal proposal and reports to understand their purpose. Once that was in my head it took critical thinking mixed with creativity to create a proposal that shares characteristics of a technical report.
Now, with the formatting, while it was hard to derive a setup to accomplish both proposal and report, I believe that my report is very clear in differentiating between subcategories and why it holds a place in the overall published report. With all this said, this technical report looks like an A+ due to the finished product and the unspoken time and effort put in to making it presentable and if I may add pretty informative to the reader.

Week #5 Response/Week #5 Response

Hakeem Leonce week 5 Response

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There have been a number of androids in cinema and yet Garland gave Ava a distinctive look, creating the true highlight of the film. Ava has skin layered over her hands, feet, and face, but everything else is robotic molding, apparent with her clear arms and legs that show the connections between the limbs. So far is the conceptualization brought to reality here that we actually get a monologue on what Ava’s “brain” is made out of: something along the lines of liquid electronics able to build and mold itself. Against the backdrop of the ultra modern compound where Nathan and Caleb are, Ava manages to look perfectly at home.

Yet as the film progresses, each new day is announced with a title card and we get an impending sense of doom. The facility, which is Nathan’s secluded workspace for this experiment on a remote piece of land he owns in the middle of millions of acres, is plagued by sporadic power outages that cause the entire place to take on a nightmare feel and shut down to make sure nothing can get in or out. Nathan even has Caleb sign an incredibly thorough non-disclosure agreement, despite being in a secluded compound. Of course, it all makes sense as the tech he is going to reveal is a game changer. Nathan has various cameras throughout the facility and monitors Caleb’s interactions with Ava. He guides Caleb and wants him to try to pierce the veil of Ava’s mind. He wants Caleb to explore without inhibition as he plays mentor, when he isn’t getting stumble-down drunk.

Week #3 Response/Week #3 Response

Hakeem Leonce Week 3 Response

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After reading the excerpt from Safiya Noble – Algorithms of Oppression I came to a deeper understanding of the “numerical” influences of social grouping and its powerful impact of the things we see, believe and most importantly follow. On a general scale, the digital decision-making society call fair and as far from race and/or sex driven is and will always be created by men and women who are in fact the same thing they are attempting to not create. So to believe that they can create this vacuum of ideal prediction without any pre-judgements is false. These codes, and the underlying ethics of technology comes from minds that are asked to predict the future. The only way you can make a proper hypothesis, is by studying the past and present to make an educated guess of what the future will be. If this is in fact true, you cannot just blur the information of all the “others” of civilization no matter the time period.

 

In the excerpt there was a part that stated, “At the very least, we must ask when we find these kinds of results, Is this the best information? For Whom?”. This short line contended all that algorithms represents. To ask a program, to make sure you take in consideration all people from near and far before making your decision is impossible. So ultimately, these outcomes made will not only be for a specific group but it was also made by a specific group adding to the inaccuracy it has for all types of individuals within the huge spectrum of men and women which itself has blurred lines of identifications.

 

Week #2 Response/Week #2 Response

Hakeem Leonce Week 2 Response

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With my appreciation for sports alongside the world of STEM, the article, “Grab and Go: How Sticky Gloves Have Changed Football” by The New York Times discussing how sticky gloves changed the NFL was a no brainer. This article explained how the advancing in technology and engineering not only gave us a better product regarding the game, but it also shows the futuristic approach the scientist and engineers possessed to bring about the generational change. Prior to modern day gloves, football players were essentially wearing mittens to catch footballs. Understanding that the exterior of the football was always pigskin, the did not make matters easy attempting to catch. Developed in the 1990’s, utilizing grippy polymer which is about 20% stickier than human hands made those impossible one handed catches viewed by folks of the pass, seamlessly a thing of ease.

 

The images shown with the articles showed multiple examples of spectacular one-handed catches made by various ages of athletes. This in a major help convey the validation of the sticky gloves truly being the force to make difficult passes easier. It also had an image from a M.I.T. laboratory that correlates to the scientific and statistical truth of experimentation to bring more validation. Having all these visual supporting evidence, with statistical proof of their argument, the overall intent of the article was clearly acknowledged. Which in fact was to show how one minor change in the material of an even smaller aspect of being a football player changed the game forever.

 

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