Teams & Projects
An analogy for engineering as a discipline.
What is a team sport?
Two of the three main themes of the Enlightenment
What is reason, science, progress?
The unabbreviated names for both DNA and mRNA.
Bonus: the powerhouse of the cell.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid and messenger rubonucleic acid?
What is Adderall? Mitochondria OK too I guess.
The German encoding system broken by British scientists led by Alan Turing?
What is the Enigma code?
My favorite part of TA'ing
What is money?
Jk, jk
What is helping students find ethics and purpose?
A new aspect of engineering today compared to the 1960s
What is diversity?
The primary contribution by Henry Ford to society (general).
What is mass production?
The technology that uses the CAS9 protein to modify genes, kinda of like a scissor.
What is CRISPR?
Ray Kurzweil's prediction.
What is the Law of Accelerating Returns?
My favorite ethics system.
The reason for the failure and collapse of the Minnesota Bridge?
What is gusset plate?
The design philosophy in which "form follows function".
What is Bauhaus?
U.S. military budget for 2025, +/- $25 billion
What is $850 billion (to spread freedom)?
GPT stands for and means.
What is Generative Pretrained Transformer?
What is an autoregressive model that's trained on large corpus of data and incorporates the transformer architecture (multi-headed attention)
My favorite section this quarter.
What is any section except 1E?
Something exhibited by Ford for both the Pinto and the Explorer
What is negligence?
They did cost-benefit analysis for Pinto, knew about poor SSF for Explorer
The percent of the world's carbon emissions that U.S. and China account for, +/- 2%.
What is 33%?
Isaac Asimov's 3 basic Laws of Robotics.
What is don't injure other humans? What is always obey humans? What is try to protect yourself?
The demographic that recently reported a record level of sadness.
What is teen girls?
The number of siblings I have and their relation to me.
What is only-child?
The fact that society's leaders come from the humanities but society's critical issues are increasingly technological and scientific.
What is Two Cultures (C.P. Snow 1959 Lecture/Essay)?
The critical warming threshold for catastrophic effects of climate change, +/- .1 degrees F
What is 2.7 degrees F?
3/5 of the factors that the Bayesian model for lethal autonomous weapons employs when assessing situations.
What is necessity of defense, long-term military benefit, collateral damage, target uncertainty, and questionable no-fire areas?
The 4th Amendment's provision along with the principle underlying it (as found in courts).
What is the right against unreasonable search What is the expectation of privacy?
My favorite book.
What is The Myth of Sisyphus?