Número cinco - A Visit From Erik Hanberg

I liked the talk he gave. It gave some insight into the struggles of trying to be successful. He also gave good examples of his multiple income sources like his books. I also didn’t really understand how big of a thing online business was back then when it first came out but from the lectures you gave, and Mr. Hanberg really put into perspective how I might take for granted how important and integrated online businesses are to our society. One of the main questions I wanted to ask Mr. Hanberg was if he went to college, and if he did, did it help him at all in his journey to his current occupation. I wish I did ask it because it’s a big deal for me. College is very expensive and for the degree I’m getting (computer science) there’s other things you can do besides college like bootcamps and get some of the same positions as a college graduate minus the cost of college. Also, it was cool that he wrote books that he was passionate about like his sci-fi and mystery books but also the non-profit books. I never really thought about doing any type of non-profit in the future, it was just never something that crossed my mind much less as a future job given my degree. But after the talk he gave it gave me more reason to check out that type of work because I think I’m a person who would enjoy doing work that helps people in that way. Overall, I really liked the talk and hope you bring more guest speakers in the future.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Número ocho: Dot.com to Dot.bomb

The dot.com to dot.bomb presentation covers what happened back then and is seen through the eyes of dinosaurs. The Dot.com bomb refers to when the www was developed by Tim Berners Lee and released to the general public. It was written using HTML, a coding language that allows a user to create interactive and visual web pages. This revolutionized the internet and brought about a decade in which companies boomed and the market was healthy. The startup.com movie gave us a perfect example of one of those companies, govWorks. They went bankrupt after not being able to adapt and burning through all the money they received as investments. Man, companies had a tragic ending like this and that is why the dinosaurs were used for this presentation because they represent a species/race (companies) that were wiped out in one fell swoop because they couldn’t handle change. Just like in the past these dinosaurs and companies died off because they couldn’t adapt to the ever-changing market and the one...
Read more

Número dos: How to spot a deep fake

Spotting a deep fake is hard. Tech is getting so good now it's becoming increasingly harder to tell what's real from what's fake. One of the easiest ways to spot a deep fake is by checking the lighting. let's say the person is wearing glasses, is the light reflecting off the lenses. Are the shadows in the correct spots? Are there even shadows? Make sure the lighting physics are natural and it doesn't look off. But there probably will be ways around that soon. In games, I know Nvidia and AMD are working on ray tracing for video games right now and bringing that tech to the mainstream. Since they've already figured out how to make light behave in games like it does in real life I doubt it'll be long until that same tech can be used in deep fakes. Another way you can tell might be skin-based. Like if the person is on the older side are there any simple lines or wrinkles. Is the skin completely smooth without any natural "defects" and how does the cont...
Read more

Número tres: Creating a Simple HTML Page

 <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Hello, I like cars and computers.</span></p> <p style="text-align: right;"><em>this is a basic HTML page.</em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>PRETTY COOL</strong></p> Honestly making this html page wasn’t too bad. The thing that caused me the most issue is on my mac it wouldn’t let me save the html file as html, it kept saving as an rtf document. I had to  find the file in the file explorer and saving as html after I finished making the document, weird. I used a couple of different things. I used the paragraph, bold, italics, and where the lines start. It honestly sounded harder than it actually was and only actually took my 5 mins to do. I remember taking a html course a couple years back and looking back on it, I find this to be way easier than any of my other languages like java or python. I know they aren’t in anyway the sam...
Read more