Miscellaneous
The conclusion of the "Bright Line" analysis for engineering case failures we did...
What is the fact that we need to evaluate them on a case-by-case basis?
An analogue for engineering
What is a team sport?
The Greenhouse Gas effect is...
What is the process by which emitted CO2 traps heat and leads to global warming?
Moore's Law is...
What is the prediction/fact that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every 24 months?
The difference between misinformation and disinformation is...
What is the latter being spread with the intent to deceive?
The DoD budget in the fiscal year 2025, +/- 25 billion was...
What is $850,000,000,000?
My favorite part about TA'ing (out of students, jokes, money)
What is students?
JK, it's the $ LMAO
A snow "activity" that I've sworn off
What is skiing?
1) Dangerous in large amounts
2) Nosebleeds
3) Pressure to "hit the slopes"
MCAS stands for...
The issue with this name is that it's...
What is Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System and vagueness?
Good leadership requires...
What is emotional intelligence?
The required fertility rate for population stability is...
What is 2.1?
Ray Kurzweil's law of accelerating returns was...
What is the prediction/fact that computational technology improves exponentially and there's now (apparent) limit to increases in computational power?
The Megan Meier incident was?
What is when the mother of Megan's friend befriending her on MySpace by pretending to be a boy and then cruelly dropping her, leading to Megan eventually committing suicide?
The number of countries that spend the most on the military (besides the U.S.) which the U.S. outspends, combined, is...
What is 10?
My favorite ethics system
What is virtue ethics?
My favorite NFL team
Bonus 100 pts: what iteration of them
What is the Las Vegas Raiders?
Bonus: What is the Oakland Raiders?
The component that failed in the Minnesota Bridge collapse was...
What is gusset plate?
The benefits in engineering that heterogeneity provides...
What is improving active thinking, critical thinking, and management skills?
In 2021, the percentage of U.S. energy consumption that was sourced by natural gas was... (+/- 3%)
What is 32%?
"Simulation [word] [word]" -Professor Weltman...
What is "Simulation condenses experience"?
The demographic that social media is most harmful to is...
What is teen girls?
The calibrated capability trust is... and it lies between...
What is avoiding too much or too little trust in technology, overtrust = misuse & distrust = disuse?
My favorite discussion section
What is any section except 1A?
They're too happy...
What is engineering failure?
C.P. Snow's thesis in his lecture/essay on "Two Cultures"
What is the fact that societal problems are increasingly technological but our leaders come from the humanities?
The three most important factors for teams are...
What is communication, leadership, and emotional intelligence?
A potential solution, at least partially, for global warming that circumvents some nations' refusal to reduce emissions is...
What is carbon capture?
ELIZA was...
What is an early software simulation of a Rogerian psychotherapist?
The thing that is going to be the main determinant of power, influence, and security in the 21st century is...
What is information?
Isaac Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics (in order and including dependencies) are...
*Bonus points (arbitrary) for the 4th secret law (R. Daneel Olivan)
What is:
1) Robots must not injure humans
2) Robots must obey human orders, provided first law is obeyed
3) Robots must always protect themselves, provided first two laws are obeyedBonus: Robots must not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm
The number of quarters that I have been a TA (including this quarter)
What is 7?
The state I was born in?
What is the State of Gujarat, India?
The cited "Benefit" in the Ford Pinto decision tree analysis
What is the money that would've been saved by not having to pay legal damages to burn victims?
A key issue of trust in engineering is...
What is calibration?
CRISPR stands for...
What is clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats?
GPT stands for and semantically means...
What is generative pretrained transformer?
Generative = autoregressive, make predictions off of previous string of words
Pretrained = trained on massive corpus of internet data
Transformer = self-attention architecture to learn how much to weigh specific words in specific spots in the prompt
The UPSTREAM and PRISM NSA programs were...
What is collecting phone communications & internet data directly from providers, respectively?
The 5 laws in the Law of Armed Conflict are...
What is:
1) Military necessities & objectives
2) Avoidance of unnecessary suffering
3) Distinction and discrimination
4) Proportionality
5) Honor
My favorite book
What is the Myth of Sisyphus?
The number of siblings I have and their relation to me (i.e., 1 sibling, younger brother)
What is an only child? Lonely... :(