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June 27: Op-ed

 Social Media: The Genocide of the Youth Although social media can be used to build global connections and maintain friendships, it often is not used in this way. Social media can have many negative effects, especially for young people . Despite its potential, social media has mostly negative effects on its users.  These negative effects include wasting your time, causing constant comparisons, and being an unsafe place to surf.     Social media wastes your time , a resource you can never get back . Social media algorithms are made to be addictive. Many of these algorithms know more about you than you know about yourself. Like any other addiction, t he earlier you start social media, the more addicted you will be. The average teen spends  4.8 hours  on social media ! This   addiction to social media prevents teens from completing  their responsibilities like homework . It can also prevent teens from doing basic daily ta sks such as   exerc ise , sleep ing , and eating. Social m
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June 18: Machine Learning

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Machine Learning Talk Today in STEM Skill we had a guest speaker named Dr. Schuman. She talked to us about Machine Learning. First, she explained the difference between learning and memorizing. When training an AI, it is important that the machine is learning and not just memorizing the training set. You train an AI by giving it training data and letting it check itself. Machine Learning is used everywhere from Google's search engine to self-driving cars. Then, she told us about k nearest neighbors and how AI can recognize objects. She used the example of apples and oranges and graphed known values for each. Then one must determine  if k of the nearest neighbors are mostly apple oranges. She also told us about Neural Networks and how neurons communicate with synapses. A Chatbot as complex as ChatGPT has trillions of synapses.      The most interesting thing I learned is how Neural Networks and Machine Learning models are models to imitate our brains. It has neurons and synapses tha
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June 24: Chatbot

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 Chatbots   Today in STEM Skill we made our own chatbot. A chatbot is a program that can help automate customer service questions. Although it cannot completely replace humans, it does make customer service jobs much more efficient. One person can manage many different customer calls at the same time. Unless it is a difficult issue to solve.      First, we copied code for a basic Python chatbot. I made the bot recommend an instrument based on the user's favorite genre of music. The code was surprisingly simple. It used loops, if else, and else statements. Here's a picture of my final code:  Then I used Chatfuel to make an interactive Facebook page to tell you what woodwind you should play. It worked like a flow chart and was very intuitive. First, I asked what octave the user wanted to play in and filtered it down to one instrument from there. Here's a picture of my flow chart: Flow is filtering down user inputs to get to one solid answer. It is like a flow chart of user op
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June 21: Natural Areas Observations

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 Natural Areas Observation Reports
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June 17: Data Visualization and AI Overview

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Data Visualization  Today in STEM Skill we learned about data visualization. We followed a YouTube tutorial for Excel and made a report on the sales of a product in South America. I learned how to create and edit graphs based on sales data. Specifically, I learned how to manipulate the graphs to show data effectively. AI Overview Artificial intelligence (AI) is a computer learning model that learns based on the data given. It generates responses to questions asked by users based on this data. My team used gender, class on the ship, age, and our premonitions about each character to predict who would survive. Gender was our main predictor because, in the movie clips, only women and children were allowed on the lifeboats. We also used class since one man bribed the captain to get a lifeboat and first class was higher on the ship (they would have more time to get on a boat).  The code had a 0.77511 success rate which is higher than using just gender. It did well overall. Through this exerc
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June 14: CAFOs

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This is what my group came up with: think of the delectable Chick-fil-a chicken sandwich and scrumptios waffle fries too reliant on CAFOs to stop now must continue CAFOs or people with starve allows poorer people to afford meat have a more balanced diet people's lives saved by CAFOs are much more valuable than animal's lives sacrificed at the CAFOs
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