This week, I did a lot of stuff. The big thing is that I started coding a Discord bot (explained down below)! I also worked on my Super Mario game and added fireballs! Other than coding, I worked on a bit of What in the World about space tourism that I will finish next week. And I submitted the Send-In Assignment for NVOL unit 3 and got 100% on it, which is a first! I also did the NVOL science learning guide, and I finished my White Dwarf writing.
Hi Ethan,
Once again you have accomplished a lot!
How are things going with the Discord bot? Is it working well? I don’t know a lot about Chatbots but I was reading a bit about the history of them on Wikipedia and thought this was interesting:
“In 1950, Alan Turing‘s famous article “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” was published,[5] which proposed what is now called the Turing test as a criterion of intelligence. This criterion depends on the ability of a computer program to impersonate a human in a real-time written conversation with a human judge to the extent that the judge is unable to distinguish reliably—on the basis of the conversational content alone—between the program and a real human. The notoriety of Turing’s proposed test stimulated great interest in Joseph Weizenbaum‘s program ELIZA, published in 1966, which seemed to be able to fool users into believing that they were conversing with a real human.”
Have you heard of Alan Turing? He was a famous British mathematician who broke the “enigma code” of the Nazis in WWII thereby making a crucial contribution to winning the war, and is considered the father of the computer. Very brilliant. A little later in his life he was persecuted by the British government for being gay and died a tragic death. There was a movie about this made in 2014 called The Imitation Game, a great movie that you might like.
The Mario fireball looks cool! Congratulations on the 100%. That is impressive and you must be very pleased! Unit 4 and Brilliant look interesting. I guess you’ll write more about unit 4 next week.
The World Space Tourism article was interesting. I remember reading that William Shatner was going up in space, but hadn’t heard anything about it afterwards. I’m glad that his focus in the article was about the worry of climate change. What did you think of his comment…. “We need seven billion people to be angry. We need to get in motion”? How do you think that might happen?
I really enjoyed reading your White Dwarf writing and definitely learned a lot. It is tremendously well done! I felt happy to know that our sun is one of the more interesting stars and will turn into a white dwarf someday and that the light from white dwarfs lasts for such an incredibly long time. Wow! In the last line before the title “Life” did you mean to say “So is it possible to survive around a red dwarf?” I was thinking maybe you meant to say “white dwarf” there?
Thanks for writing, Ethan!
Best,
Shannon
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