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