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Faculty Fun Facts
Faculty Fun Facts
ORDA members Fun facts
100
Your Spotify playlist has 50 songs and shuffle picks one at random. What is the probability that it is your favorite?
1/50 or 2%
100
When was the term "Artificial Intelligence" first coined?
a. 1955
b. 1976
c. 2010
d. 2018
a. 1955
100
This faculty member is the faculty athletics representive
a. LCDR Maio
b. Dr. Johnson
c. Dr. Kathy Krystinik
d. LCDR Zelman
c. Dr. Kathy Krystinik
100
This faculty member is involved in OCF and the Boxing Club
a. Dr. Kudlak
b. Lt Fenster
c. LCDR Maio
d. Dr. Frommer
c. LCDR Maio
100
This Informs leadership member was close to switching out of ORDA 4/c year. (Don't do it!!)
a. Shaley Dunn
b. Devon Elmendorf
c. Mara Maas
b. Devon Elmendorf
200
This 2011 movie featuring Brad Pitt showed how analytics and statistics can be used to find the most optimal/undervalued players.
What is Moneyball?
200
When was the first chatbot created (an extremely simplified version of Claude or ChatGPT)
a. 1956
b. 1966
c. 1998
d. 2007
b. 1966
ELIZA was built at MIT in 1966, the model mostly rephrased your original question as the output.
200
This faculty member's favorite mlb team lost in the first round of the playoffs.
a. Dr. Johnson
b. Dr. Kudlak
c. LCDR Zelman
d. LCDR Maio
a. Dr. Johnson
200
These faculty members are working currently working on better techniques to denoise digital images (extract information from the image even if the pixels are imperfect due to glare or motion
a. Dr. Bagchi Misra and Dr Kathy Krystinik
b. Dr. Kudlak and Dr. Frommer
c. Dr. Johnson and Lt Olds
a. Dr. Bagchi Misra and Dr. Kathy Krystinik
200
The current informs presidents met their 4/c year, what class did they originally meet in?
a. Chem 1
b. Foundations to Calculus
c. Calc 1
d. American Gov
d. American gov
300
A Instagram Reels video goes from 100 to 200 to 400 to 800 views, doubling each time. What type of growth is this?
What is exponential growth?
300
Chatbots are built on training data, if the training data has holes in it, the chatbot may make up something that sounds right but was completely made up. This term is used for when a chatbot confidently states something that sounds right but is false.
What is a hallucination?
300
Which ORDA faculty member has the most cats?
a. Mr. McCormick
b. Dr. Frommer
c. LT Fenster
d. Lt Olds
c. Lt Fenster
300
This faculty member plays the drums
a. LT Fenster
b. Dr. Frommer
c. Dr. Johnson
d. Dr. Kudlak
b. Dr. Frommer
300
This ORDA 4/c has gotten stiches around their mouth... 3 times
a. Heidi Locker
b. Ryan Moore
c. Bode Wilson
d. Ezekiel Schultz
b. Ryan Moore
400
In programming, a clear sequence of steps for solving a problem is called this, and TikTok's version of this picks your next video.
What is an algorithm?
400
In November 2022, this chat both was released, and within 2 months this AI reached over 100 million users.
What is ChatGPT?
400
This faculty member once won a costume contest as the energizer bunny.
a. Dr. Kudlak
b. Lt. Olds
c. Dr. Johnson
d. Dr. Frommer
c. Dr. Johnson
400
This faculty member used to play the harp
a. Lt Olds
b. LCDR Maio
c. LCDR Zelman
d. Dr. Kudlak
a. Lt Olds
400
This ORDA 4/c once visited Napoleon Bonaparte's tomb.
a. James Mckenna
b. Molly Enestvedt
c. Yunhan Chen
d. Hudson Newsom
c. Yunhan Chen
500
Spotify and Netflix both use this algorithm to recommend future songs or movies based on your recently listened/ watched.
What is a recommendation algorithm?
500
This chess-playing IBM computer defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, marking the first time a computer could surpass humans in chess.
What is Deep Blue?
500
This faculty member went on eagle as a kid
a. Dr. Kudlak
b. LCDR Maio
c. Lt Fenster
d. Mr. McCormick
a. Dr. Kudlak
500
This faculty member once played Jafar in their high school's rendition of Aladdin
a. Dr. Johnson
b. Dr. Frommer
c. LCDR Maio
d. LCDR Zelman
c. LCDR Maio
500
this ORDA 4/c weighs exactly 186 lbs.
a. Ryan Moore
b. Robert Blenman
c. Thomas Park
d. Connor Marshall
d. Connor Marshall