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- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron published a blog post Communities we live in and serve: universities and places October 6, 2022 - 10:54pm

Voluntourism, geoarbitrage, and digital nomadsReasons to be Cheerful is among my first ports of call for news most mornings because I hate to start the day on a negative or banal note. The news is mostly good, but it's never trivial, cute, or...
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron bookmarked Social Media Use Linked to Developing Depression Regardless of Personality | University of Arkansas in the group COMP 650: Social Computing October 4, 2022 - 5:00pm

This describes an interesting study that seems to confirm social media use can be harmful no matter who you are though, as the article notes, more research is needed to confirm the findings. Quite a few similar studies have come to quite similar...

https://news.uark.edu/articles/62109/social-media-use-linked-to-developing-depression-regardless-of-personality
- Cameron German@cameronge3
Cameron German replied on the discussion topic Unit 2: Food for Thought October 3, 2022 - 12:03pm

The main benefit of a popular search engine is that websites will optimize their content and integrations to maximize their impact on the search results pages, making it more convenient to search the web. However, this also gives significant power...
- Athabasca Landing@AUlanding
Athabasca Landing created a wiki page Problems logging in and saving pages (September 2022) September 27, 2022 - 12:33pm

People were having problems logging in to the Landing around 22-27 September, only intermittently being able to get in. The problem was related to an update to underlying system software. We believe that these problems have now been resolved. Sorry...
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- Deborah Brouwer@deborahbr32
  
  Deborah Brouwer December 15, 2022 - 12:03am
  That's interesting to know - at least it explains why I can't seem to edit the wiki subpage. It just spins until it times out. I'll try again another day.
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron bookmarked So, this is a thing... September 26, 2022 - 3:25pm

Students are now using AIs to write essays and assignments for credit, and they are (probably) getting away with it. This particular instance may be fake, but the tools are widely available and it would be bizarre were no one to be using them for...

https://twitter.com/petergyang/status/1573489316147306496?s=20&t=XPjr54KmAWmcqnrJ79eMvA
- Nina Sebastian@ninase2
Nina Sebastian replied on the discussion topic Unit 2: Food for Thought September 25, 2022 - 5:59pm

My Answer: 1) Search engines are a ubiquitous part of the internet. They have helped in growing the internet and organizing the overall internet content. The quality of search results and the ability to rank the...
- Kevin Maneschyn@kevinma100
Kevin Maneschyn replied on the discussion topic Unit 2: Food for Thought September 25, 2022 - 4:26pm

1. I don't think I 'trust' search engines any more than my ability to use them. That is to say that I consider search engines as a tool to accomplish a task, and not as the source of the information I am looking for. I trust search engines to return...
- Sheryl Griffith@sherylgr
Sheryl Griffith replied on the discussion topic Unit 2: Food for Thought September 24, 2022 - 8:14pm

1. I mostly trust search engines, as this is where we go on the Web to access information to our queries. One must, however, do their due diligence and not trust all the information they have access to. In contrast to other forms of media,...
- Masood Ahmed@masoodah
Masood Ahmed replied on the discussion topic Unit 2: Food for Thought September 24, 2022 - 11:39am

#1. Using online search engines has become part of my life. Whether I am looking for store hours or information on a specific topic, an internet search is what I do. Like other technologies, search engines have come a long way from providing simple...
- Fabiha Nawar@fabihana
Fabiha Nawar replied on the discussion topic Unit 2: Food for Thought September 20, 2022 - 12:16pm

#1. For many reasons I use search engine in my daily life. Personally, I trust the search engines as most of them gives the correct information. In most cases I use Google because it shows simple, better results. Some benefits of Google search...
- Adam Zieleman@adamzi2
Adam Zieleman replied on the discussion topic Unit 2: Food for Thought September 19, 2022 - 1:08pm

Unit 2: FOOD FOR THOUGHT I don’t trust the ads that are presented as the top results on any search engine. They may or may not be useful, but they must be reviewed with a grain of salt. The search engine I trust most is Google, mostly...
- Gregory McDonald@gregorymc16
Gregory McDonald added a new discussion topic Unit 2: Food for Thought September 19, 2022 - 10:17am

Food for thought for Unit 2 (as copied from the Instructor's Notebook): 1. How much do you personally trust the various search engines? What are some of the benefits of a popular search engine? What are some of the pitfalls. 2. Describe the...
- Jingyi Lao@jingyila
Jingyi Lao uploaded the file Unit2- Learning reflection and Progression in the group COMP 266 September 17, 2022 - 9:19am

In this unit, i have implement three different html webpage(Welcome.html, Home.html, Gallery.html) with various tags. Welcome.html - this webpage is intend to serve the function of welcoming the potential costmer to the bookstore. In this...
- Lexi MacDonald@lexima
Lexi MacDonald published a blog post COMP 361 – Reflection about Assignment 2 September 15, 2022 - 9:56am

Difficulties from Assignment 1 really came in handy this time!
- Mitch Louis-Jacques@mitchlo
Mitch Louis-Jacques created a wiki page Unit 13: Summing Up – The Future of Robotics September 6, 2022 - 9:08am

Unit 13: Summing Up – The Future of Robotics In this last unit of the course we take the opportunity to wrap things up by looking at the future of robotics. In addition to giving numerous examples of where robots are going, we finish by...
- Mitch Louis-Jacques@mitchlo
Mitch Louis-Jacques created a wiki page Unit 12: Learning and Robots September 6, 2022 - 9:07am

Unit 12: Learning and Robots Learning is a concept that is not historically coupled with robots, but more and more robot research is focussed on robotic learning. Reinforcement, supervision, imitation, and forgetting are all current topics in robot...
- Mitch Louis-Jacques@mitchlo
Mitch Louis-Jacques created a wiki page Unit 11: Navigation and Group Robotics September 6, 2022 - 9:04am

Unit 11: Navigation and Group Robotics Getting somewhere is often very important in defining a robot’s function. Getting from point A to point B as a robot is part of navigation. We will explore navigation topics in this unit, as...
- Mitch Louis-Jacques@mitchlo
Mitch Louis-Jacques created a wiki page Unit 10: Unexpected Outcomes and Emergent Behaviour September 6, 2022 - 9:01am

Unit 10: Unexpected Outcomes and Emergent Behaviour What happens when a robot behaves in unexpected ways? Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Can we predict unexpected outcomes or design for them in our robots? This unit explores emergent...
- Mitch Louis-Jacques@mitchlo
Mitch Louis-Jacques created a wiki page Unit 9: Robot Control 5 – Coordination September 6, 2022 - 8:58am

Unit 9: Robot Control 5 – Coordination As robot control mechanisms become more and more complex, we see the need to build some type of coordination mechanism into the control structure. Control coordination is the topic of this...
- Mitch Louis-Jacques@mitchlo
Mitch Louis-Jacques created a wiki page Unit 8: Robotic Control 4 – Hybrid and Behaviour-Based Control September 6, 2022 - 8:55am

Unit 8: Robotic Control 4 – Hybrid and Behaviour-Based Control The various types of control mechanisms studied so far in the course lead to a natural question: what would happen if we combined some of the control mechanisms? The answer to...

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