Cluster 1 : Computers in Everyday Life

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CIELO WEEK2

computers in everyday life whoop whoop! 

izy chan and 3 others • 1,111,111,111 likes • 26 songs, 1 hr 21 min

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monday

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Monday began the official start of the second week of learning at COSMOS! In the morning, David Danks--a professor of data science and philosophy at UCSD--came to discuss with us the ethics of data science and how one would solve these ethical problems. He brought up many interesting topics such as how new models now have algorithmic bias, which is a bias that is hard to reduce because the data itself that trains the algorithm is biased. After the presentation, we had another lecture about more complicated aspects of image processing. We learned how to create a grayscale image, flip an image, and apply partial filters. For the afternoon, we put these skills to the test and created new filters that we made up ourself. 

tuesday

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In the morning, we listened to a presentation by a guest speaker about biological/cultural patterns and rhythms that we have in the human body. Then, our teacher fellow took us to Starbucks (for the first time!) before heading to the Geisel Library for some much needed time to work on our ethics essays. After lunch, Professor Soohyun introduced our second mini project where we get to make our own creative filters. The rest of class was work time for us to either catch up on our previous labs, or to start the new mini project. 

wednesday

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To start off the day, we were introduced to the world of number systems where we learned about binary numbers. We also learned about steganography, which is essentially a way of making a digital secret message. For the afternoon lab, we completed a fun lab where we each used steganography to encode a message inside an image. We then sent this encoded image to our classmates for them to decode. At the end of class, we presented our results from the mini project we did yesterday. 

thursday

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During Thursday morning’s sci comm session, we attended a Zoom panel where COSMOS alumni talked about their COSMOS experience and how it impacted their life. Among the panel was Ella, a current RA; Veronica, a former Cluster 1 student; and Nicholas, a UCSD and COSMOS professor who attended COSMOS more than 20 years ago!  Next, we headed to the Geisel Library, where students raced to finish their ethics essays that are due tomorrow. After lunch, we started learning about Arduino with Professor Karcher and experimented with hardware. Using breadboards, Arduino computers, jumper wires, and resistors, we made LED lights blink and create graphs measuring the brightness of a light sensor.

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COSMOlympics

ft. the grinch 𖦹°‧★

yunah chung and 3 others • week1 • 6 songs, 23 min

friyay

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Friday was the day of COSMOlympics! Right after dinner, we all prepped (both mentally and physically) for the competiton, but the skit contest would only take place after a couple of games. For the first game, all clusters had to send in one brave member to compete in Musical Chairs, except that it was towels instead. Andres boldly stepped in and fought hard for our cluster, even diving in for the towels and eliminating others. Sadly though, he was eliminated a few rounds later. But this wasn't our last fight yet: the next contest for COSMOlympics was modified version of catch, with water balloons instead of balls. Justin and Connor were sent in and successfully caught the water balloon for a few rounds, but unfortunately fell blundered from popping the balloon during the catch.

 After all this, now it was time for the big competition for which cluster had the best skit. Our cluster was first to perform, and we got great reactions from the crowd with our shock value with the human dogs to the intense shadowboxing between Ernest and Andres. Eventually when every cluster was finished,  it was around 8-9 pm as each performance was pretty lengthy. The finalists were decided, and unfortunately we didn't make it :( Despite the loss, we all had a fun time making our skit together. GG Cluster 6

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San Diego Zoo

field trip ୨୧ ‧₊˚ ⋅ 

mimi zhao and cedric mallari • week1 • 12 songs, 42 min

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The long awaited San Diego Zoo trip was on Saturday! Before we went to the place, all of us ate our typical breakfasts and made our way to the bus. We chose our lunch, varying between a turkey sandwich and a quinoa salad with a choice of any drink they had. Though we had to wait a boring yet important 30 minutes before departing to make sure everyone was here, we finally arrived at the zoo after a 20 minute drive.  At this point, many of us separated into groups so here's my experience.

The place was HUGE, but luckily I already visited this zoo a couple of times, so I acted like a tour guide. My group's goal was to visit the Capybaras Exhibit, all the way at the back of the map. We first headed down the "Lost Forest" portion of the zoo, and took a trail that led us to the aviary. In the aviary, we encountered many birds but one that stood out was a Great Argus (sort of like a peacock) that kept flaring it's pretty feathers . After the aviary, we ventured throughout the trail, coming across some penguins swimming in the water, seeing the red butts of baboons,  walking across donkeys and camels and huge elephants, we finally arrived at the Capybara exhibit. Turns out, they're a lot bigger in person than what we usually see (given from the reactions of others). There was still so much to see, so here's a quick and brief recap of everything else:

After all the animals, some of us went to eat at Treetops Bistro. I got a tri-tip & swiss cheese sandwich w/ french dip (it was okay). We started heading back, occasionally getting lost in the Lost Forest, and all of us met back at the entrance. Many of us bought stuff from the gift shops, like wearable red panda ears w/ tails and plushies. There was also this really good stand giving out free golden kiwis (maybe the best I've ever had) so that was great too. After our RAs did a  headcount, all of us finally got into the bus and left the zoo with memories.