Engineering🌉
True/False: When building a bridge with limited resources, you should use the best pieces at the beginning.
What is false?
When building any type of tower or structure, this part should be the most reinforced.
What is the base?
Recall as much of Ms. Mel's story about Tungsten Cubes.
Anthropic gave the AI control over a mini-store with snacks and drinks.
Employees could request products through a messaging channel.
One employee jokingly asked for a tungsten cube. Instead of recognizing it as a novelty request, the AI decided tungsten cubes were apparently a great business opportunity.
Claudius started buying and stocking expensive tungsten cubes, even filling parts of its snack inventory with them.
It then compounded the problem by pricing items badly, giving discounts too freely, and in at least one case offering cubes for less than it had paid for them.
Employees quickly learned they could persuade the AI to hand out deals and freebies, despite the AI's stated goal of making a profit.
This is the most fundamental coding language.
What is binary?
True or False: Binary is the only coding language.
What is false?
Why was the Da Vinci bridge so important during it's time?
Soldiers could build quickly to cross rivers, disassemble so enemies couldn't follow, easily transportable, no tools necessary, etc.
When building your egg drops, this resource was used the least and for this reason.
What is the tape, because it was expensive?
Explain why or why not tungsten is a good material to build with.
Justify your answer.
This is the name of the free coding app you used today?
These two numbers make up the binary language.
What is 0 and 1?
Compression forces do this.
What is push things together?
Balancing weight distribution, wind, fragile materials, no attaching tools, etc.
A small cube of tungsten feels shockingly and unnaturally heavy because of this.
What is extreme density?
Computers are full of tiny on/off switches. This binary number codes the switch 'on.'
What is 1?
When coding on the iPads, the code doesn't work unless the code blocks are this.
What is attached/connected?
On our Da Vinci bridges, we used these as friction locks.
What are the rubber bands?
This feature made the paper airplanes stay in the air the longest.
What is width?
Tungsten cubes are expensive because of this.
Metal has extremely high melting point, costing a lot to process.
True or False: Coding is a lot of trial and error.
What is true?
When coding, you have to be specific about what object you're talking about, otherwise the computer will do one of two things.
What is make an assumption or error out?
This is the force that pushes sideways when weight presses down.
What is shear force?
These variables were unaccounted for in our Airplane Experiment.
What is wind, direction, starting point, projection angle, projection strength, etc.
A 7-inch block tungsten costs about this much.
What is $150,000?
Explain how if/then statements work.
If something is true, then do this action.
In the 1600s, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz came up with this idea (that later inspired binary code).
What is using only 2 numbers to do math?