The Future Ahead of Us

Hello Everybody;

Today we will check the hand out I prepared for you. Also we will play puzzles related to Apps. We will review some links for you to check, news, and the exciting future ahead of us.

See you in a bit.

Keep Charming,

Perla

Blogs, AI, Platforms, Android Apps

Hello Folks!

This is an article to read not in a rush but with the novel approach of how the new machines of AI can do tasks for us in a myriad of ways and amounts with a reduced human workforce.

https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-users-50-engineers/

A Blog and How to Choose a Blog Platform

A blog is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries. Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order, so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page

https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-choose-the-best-blogging-platform/

How to manage your Apps in Android smartphoneshttps://www.pcworld.com/article/2980846/android/6-ways-to-take-control-of-your-android-apps.html

 OLLI is an important part of our lives and our community, and we care about you.It will be terrific to find about the adventures of everybody using  the internet.  See you in class Keep Charming,Perla

Portal, the newest video chat for Grandparents and Children from Amazon & Facebook

Hello All;

Last class was so interesting, full of questions and interesting thoughts. On Monday we will have the newest news on Facebook  like Portal with Amazon built in. This is a completely new concept were two different platforms are joining efforts for privacy for the little ones and grandparents; sounds familiar? We will talk about different video conferences available for you and how to download them, or use them because some are already in your devices. Happy times of endless learning are ahead of us. 

Here is an excerpt from Mark Zuckerberg post: 

"Today we're announcing Portal -- a new kind of device that makes video calling feel a lot more like hanging out.

Portal uses an AI-powered Smart Camera and Smart Sound technology to focus on whoever's talking even across a room. It's hands-free, voice-controlled and has Amazon Alexa built in. You can use it to call anyone on Facebook Messenger so you can connect with friends and family even if they don't have Portal. It has a nice big screen -- there's a 10" version and a 15" version" -- so it's great for feeling like you're right there with someone.

Our girls use Portal to call their grandparents before bedtime so they can read books together. Portal is great for this because they don't have to hold a phone or tablet and the AI camera just naturally keeps them in the frame no matter where you are in the room. Our girls don't use a lot of screens yet, but we're happy for them to do video calls to see their grandparents or so I can see them when I'm traveling.

Privacy is built deeply into Portal. It comes with a physical cover for the camera and there's a built in hardware button to turn off the camera and microphone. We don't listen to, view, or keep the contents of your calls in any way. Your calls are always completely private.

We've been working on this for a while and I'm excited to share this with you now. I think a lot of people who do video calls with family, loved ones, or significant others will love this product as we do.

Portal will begin shipping next month in time for the holidays, and it's available now for pre-order at: http://portal.facebook.com"

Prepare your questions, get ready to be an adventurous  internaut.  See you tomorrow.

Keep Charming,

Perla

Welcome

Hello All,

Today in a few, we will have so much fun. Be prepared with all the questions you have, all your spirit for creativity, vision and innovation. We will talk about the news in technology, Social Media, Internet and  all the how to with your favorite apps.

See you in a bit.

Keep Charming,

Perla 

“Robotics Skins” turn everyday objects into robots

     

The skins are made from elastic sheets embedded with sensors and actuators developed in Kramer-Bottiglio's lab. Placed on a deformable object -- a stuffed animal or a foam tube, for instance -- the skins animate these objects from their surfaces. The makeshift robots can perform different tasks depending on the properties of the soft objects and how the skins are applied.

"We can take the skins and wrap them around one object to perform a task -- locomotion, for example -- and then take them off and put them on a different object to perform a different task, such as grasping and moving an object," she said. "We can then take those same skins off that object and put them on a shirt to make an active wearable device."

A Continuous Learning

Hi Folks,
We have had a wonderful experience during Summer Session, we were able to envision the future, learn from the present, and connect the past in a continuous timeline. All of it with Social Media and all its manifestations.
It has been a continuous learning and it will be for Fall Session. You are invited.
Today we will see a video with a wonderful animation. It will show you a presentation of how people is working backstage kind of;         
A fun way to look at the Pipe Lines 

A presentation of the new way to do Art in a new canvas in Facebook, and other platforms that share enthusiastically all the endeavors of STEAMS.

Also, let's talk about Deep Learning
For the first time in history of deep learning, a nn learns concept of a number deciding which part of input & output should have certain functions applied.
There is a NAC-neural accumulator whose weight matrix consists of only -1s,0s,1s and outputs are addition/subtraction of input vectors instead of rescaling which prevents layers from rescaling when mapping input to the output.
Deep Learning

It has been a delight! See you in a bit with all your comments and suggestions. Our conversations that are worth spreading.
Keep Charming,
Perla

The Challenges for Robots, The Ethics,...Why Robots? The Robots and Money

Hello Everybody,

We are going to tackle four articles in our class. Here are the links and some hints.

1.- Bio-robots, swarm robots, Social robots, pharma-robots, and everything in between. Is it everything covered in the challenges? 

The Challenges for Robots

2.-Rules written into code in 2018 might control what happens in 2025. “You can set up the dominoes early, and they will fall later,” he says. “That’s a strange movement of autonomy: not from a person to a company, or a company to a government, but from the present to the past.”

The Morality in our Robotic world

3.-SPEED OF DEPLOYMENT. HOLLYWOOD SCENARIOS. EXPONENTIALS SUITCASE WORDS. PERFORMANCE VERSUS COMPETENCE. IMAGINING MAGIC. OVERESTIMATING AND UNDERESTIMATING

Artificial Intelligence Predictions going wrong

4.-Blockchain technology can be used to create a permanent, public, transparent ledger system for compiling data on sales, tracking digital use and payments to content creators, such as wireless users or musicians In 2017, IBM partnered with ASCAP and PRS for Music to adopt blockchain technology in music distributionImogen Heap's Mycelia service has also been proposed as blockchain-based alternative "that gives artists more control over how their songs and associated data circulate among fans and other musicians."Everledger is one of the inaugural clients of IBM's blockchain-based tracking service.

New distribution methods are available for the insurance industry such as peer-to-peer insurance, parametric insurance and microinsurance following the adoption of blockchain.The sharing economy and IoT are also set to benefit from blockchains because they involve many collaborating peers Online voting is another application of the blockchain.

Blockchains facilitate users could take ownership of game assets (digital assets), an example of this is Cryptokitties.

Non-cryptocurrency designs include:

Hyperledger – a cross-industry collaborative effort from the Linux Foundation to support blockchain-based distributed ledgers, with projects under this initiative including Hyperledger Burrow (by Monax) and Hyperledger Fabric (spearheaded by IBM)
Quorum – a permissionable private blockchain by JPMorgan Chase with private storage, used for contract applications
Tezos, decentralized voting.
IBM offers a cloud blockchain service based on the open source Hyperledger Fabric project

On May 8, 2018 Facebook confirmed that it is opening a new blockchain group which will be headed by David Marcus who previously was in charge of Messenger. According to The Verge Facebook is planning to launch its own cryptocurrency for facilitating payments on the platform

The World Bank using Blockchain

A Trillion

Let's talk Apple and a trillion dollars. Let's see how it was before, how it is now. Let's play the visions of the future. Let's see Twitter, Youtube, Instagram and Google+  Let's have fun!  

Let's Have Fun!

Hello Everybody!
Last class we passed the drone around for you to have a closer look. Also, we talked about an example of conspiracy theories, and we had wonderful insights from our game about our futuristic visions, and we talked about art (literature) and technology.
Today we will talk about the 360 cameras and we will see some videos with that particular vision, they are pretty cool, we will be playing our games. We will talk about the Video Game industry and very informative data about the industry. Let's have fun! See you in a bit.

Here are the links to look at;

https://www.blender.org/about/

https://futurism.com/google-glass-back-factories/

https://www.engineering.com/DesignSoftware/DesignSoftwareArticles/ArticleID/17349/SimScale-Improves-Its-Online-Post-Processor.aspx?ENGCOM=

https://www.wepc.com/news/video-game-statistics/

https://www.facebook.com/PerlaGutierrezCaliforniaUS

A delightful class!

Hi everyone!In a little bit we will be together sharing very interesting news about how our data is collected or stored. Also we will revise one of the many videos that tell us about Social Media behavior. We will talk about the recollections of all the mayor Literature works and how they were analyzed not long time ago. We will play, and choose the game. Let's have fun and talk about our new environment in Social Media. See you soon!To be prompt here are some links:

https://code.fb.com/production-engineering/open-sourcing-oomd-a-new-approach-to-handling-ooms/


https://youtu.be/UqByX959pxg


https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601848/data-mining-reveals-the-six-basic-emotional-arcs-of-storytelling/


For the games, you can see them here in past blogs. Let's have fun!

It has been a delightful time!

Hello everybody, 👋we have reached our last Winter Session for Social Media History💖. We have enhanced our vocabulary, learned about the state of the art on Social Media, Security... We had a live event,  an international video conference🆒. We participated in games; to visualize the future, to detailed the knicks and knacks in the main Social Media sites. We explored who is who in Social Media. We learned how networks behave and their math principles. We talked about our personal experiences with Social Media. We discussed documentaries about how communities are introduced to Social Media. 

  Many of you have asked for further learning. I think you are totally ready to join the class of Social Media in the Computer Lab, please check the time for the class in our OLLI-CSULB online and printed material. During the lab class; You will have your sites, your platforms set and your magnificent ideas put into work.

  At the beginning of this Social Media History Class I asked you about your desires. I can see that all have been fulfilled and going beyond you had imaging. You have concrete ideas. A fair vision of Social Media and you know what to expect.

   It has been a wonderful journey. I hope to see you in our next session during Summer. We will played, learn and be on top of current events referred to Social Media at the present. Social Media History is in the making for every single second passed, so, we will continue to learn and master our  skills to be on top of this Technology. Next Summer session we will add a chapter for an IoT demonstration in class.

  Today by popular demand we will seek for a deep understanding of YouTube and all its potential. Also we will talk about Cybersecurity and how major firms have tackled their problems.

  During Spring, I will post some of your opinions and results of the games we played, also it will be interesting for you to  watch some of the videos I will have curated for a better understanding of  this always changing Social Media Universe and age groups, communities, and defined gatherings. It will be an interesting time for reflexion and observation. 

  Last, we will be pursuing, for all the ones with mobility constraints; the basic idea developed a little bit more during this course;  "We can use any platform in Social Media to learn and to teach; we can interact with everybody at any time using the tools that technology offers. We communicate instantly with each other with the nurture disposition to attend particularities of the learning process for teachers and learners. Because we are based on listen and deliver in a very analogic way using electronic wonders"~ Perla Gutierrez

See you in a Bit! 👀😁

Guess What? We'll Play In Our Social Media Class

Hello everybody! Today we will do puzzles and we will go deeper in our knowledge and learning skills. Also the class will be in Twitter. Yes, as I was showing you during our classes different Social Media and how we can interact with it. Today is Twitter time and Puzzles. Here is a little pic of the puzzles.

What you will receive

For images

To be together

A tricky one

What are the teens doing?

A pretty scary one

Among other things, a way to learn

See you in a few! 👀😀

Today for Social Media Class at OLLI

Alumni at Facebook from several Universities

How does a sign up look

What is a Tweet?

Emojis

Apps Together

Apps for Google

The Top Ones for iPhone

Are all Apps?

Let's Imagine Our Future

Today we will look at Social Media and the  World, to think about it we will aide our thoughts with a games, actually with a version of a game played at Singularity University and Stanford University.

for more info go to:  http://situationlab.org/project/the-thing-from-the-future/

 It won for creativeness. It is a game base in a deck of cards like this.

We will explore Social Media and Who is Who in the most popular sites and we will continue to  have the elements to have the big picture of How to in Social Media.
I recommend this links for you to look at and listen other opinions from people who is in the frontline or was in it for some time.

https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2018/sessions/future-shocks-war-without-rules

More Vocabulary For The Internet And Social Media Students

Hello Internautas!
Today we will address some terms that are common in the daily use of Social Media and first Internet. For that I will recommend to visit this site:

https://www.lifewire.com/top-internet-terms-for-beginners-2483381?utm_source=emailshare&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=shareurlbuttons

or

https://www.lifewire.com/top-internet-terms-for-beginners-2483381


Also I will post the image by IBM made several years ago about the New Disrupted things 

And because Cyber Seniors are Disrupting society here is a wonderful image of a Tweet.

The New Denny's App

It is not a commercial from the post. It is an image of how you pay at Denny's nowadays in a Seal Beach Location with most customers are Seniors. 

Some links to share to start your Social Media Accounts.

Here are some links for you to look at if you decide to join some popular  Social Media Platforms 

The first one is about news in Facebook. Because some of you ask for it
https://newsroom.fb.com/ News in Facebook and Twitter

Here is how to get here. This one is just because I am giving you printed material.

https://perla-gutierrez.blogspot.com    Some snippets  from class in Perla Gutierrez Blog 

From the questionnaire about your desires 90% of you wanted to know about Facebook

https://youtu.be/b79EQeqIo_Q   How do you sign up for  Facebook

You can do it in your smartphone

https://youtu.be/iFldV0bk1XA   How do you sign up for Facebook in your smartphone

You can do your videos and share them in YouTube from your smartphone

https://youtu.be/GeIfbeXn4U8   How do you sign up for YouTube in your Smartphone  

More Ideas next class.