by admin | May 7, 2024 | 2. What does it mean to be digital, 7. Critique of Digital Classification, Uncategorized
At its core, the purpose of digital technology is to provide exact answers that are robust to noise. For something to be digital, there are a few criteria that must be met. Digital technology: has a fixed number of symbols/inputs, can reliably distinguish the...
by admin | May 2, 2024 | 1. Journey, Cuirosity Reserach, Learning Objectives
I believe that the final goal of digital advancements is to create an animatronic version of the human brain. This model would be impervious to environmental distractions, cognitive bias or limitations, and would not be bound by computing power like the human brain....
by admin | Apr 11, 2024 | 8. Benefits and Liabilities of Digital, Cuirosity Reserach, Learning Objectives
If a story does a good job illustrating a point you are trying to make, does it matter if it is true? Back in the 1960s, the Department of Defense (DOD) began developing a primitive AI that it hoped would be able to detect military tanks in photographs. Like all AI,...
by admin | Mar 25, 2024 | 4. LImitations of Digital Representation, 8. Benefits and Liabilities of Digital, Cuirosity Reserach, Learning Objectives
Virtual interviews are unfair to candidates and generally bad practice. Objects are categorized as soon as they are perceived. That’s what researchers found in a study posted to Psychological Science. This phenomenon is why first impressions are so hard to...
by admin | Mar 7, 2024 | 6. Digital vs Natural Comparison, Learning Objectives
As humans, we emotionally connect with lived experiences in ways that just cannot be recreated by digital representations. To quote the late great Robin Williams in my favorite movie, Goodwill Hunting, “So if I asked you about art, you could give me the skinny...
by admin | Mar 5, 2024 | 5. Process of Digitization, Learning Objectives
Digital photos have the capability to represent 281 trillion colors. The most common color system used for computers can represent over sixteen million different colors, which is still six million more than the human eye can even see. You have never taken a picture of...
