that would be pretty awesome if you asked em
hello?
hi
hey hows it going?
pretty good, the weather is nice and i fed some baby ducks today there were so many baby ducks, there were a bunch of different little groups of them and the mommies were super defensive and protective of them so i made sure the mommies
where were these baby ducks??
on campus by the duck pond. you know the little river that travels halfway up the south side of campus?
yes baby ducks!!! I love them I love how the ducks are everywhere on campus and they are totally chill with the students
when i was feeding the first batch we ran into i couldnt find the mother and the little duckies were so hungry they were crawling right up into my lap to eat the bread. it was
ohhh my gosssh so cuteeee
so adorable, i wonder what happened to their mother. when i was walking back from feeding the other ducks further down the river there were two adult ducks chasing them and it concerned me that all those babies might have lost their mother and they might all die without a mother you know
I bet the mother was just chilling somewhere else
i was really stressed about it. usually the moms are pretty protective of their babies and the babies never go too far from the mom. they always stay really really close to he
oh thats right...
we ran into  three other sets of babies and they were all really close to their mother because the adult ducks would sometimes go after the babies and the mom would have to ch chase them away so they didnt hurt the babies.
yeah I wonder if the moms were so comfortable around humans around the pond that they dont mind letting the baby ducks just run around
except there were two groups of ducklings one was the oldest set of ducklings and one was the youngest set of ducklings that we saw and they were hanging out right next to  ea eachother, and we were feeding them and the bigger ones got really close to this little guy so the little guy was super fiesty and started chasing after all the bigger ones. a one of the bigger ones got fed up and chased the little guy back into the mom of the little guys territory so the mom chased after the teenage duck and was biting it and . pushing it under water and i was obviously freaking out because we caused that to happen basically.  so i started coming forward to put my hand close enough that the mom would back off but before i could she grabbed the baby by its neck in her mouth and i was like "no! bad mommy duckk!!"
hahahah thats what he gets oh wow actually that is vicious
ducks are very viscous!
I think birds are just vicious in general
i dont actually know but it would make sense. survival of the fittest. but still stresses me out. i dont have the heart for watching animals die. I feel like a mother in that sense i am very very compassionate towards animals and their innocence. i think thats why id be good at being a mother because I have a lot of
I think that survival of the fittest in the animal kingdom is actually a great thing even thought it sucks watching cute weak animals die by the other stronger ones
practice training dogs and other animals
but that survival of the fittest is a big part of the ecosystem that drives the environment and keeps it healthy at least that is what I think
youre right. the world must turn i wonder how god decides which animals should live and which ones should die
I think that its important to take care of the ecosystem the best of our knowledge but the best thing we can do is to just leave the ecosystem as what it is supposed to be
some animals dies terrible deaths being torn apart or eaten from the guts out so they live through a lot of pain and agony before they die right. it freaks me out
I feel like whenever our hand gets in nature we just destory it I don't think God really decides or chooses what animals die and live but I think he just lets the system he set run in course because he knows that its perfect and that it will take care of itself but us humans are disturbing it but I think God took that into account
yeah i tend to have to agree with you there. it seems like god doesnt have too much of a hand in those kindss of things. so many animals will go exxtinct in our lifetime because of things like deforestation, pollution, and global warming. its really sad. i cant understand why the general population either ignores it or doesnt believe its happening. its like how do you make people aware of something that inconveniences their lives. whats so interesting to me is to see how things will continue to advance with the global ecosystem. at some point it will fail and when that happens i wonder how the world will choose to react im curious if there will be anything we can do to survive or if it will come to just very immediate consequences like what might happen during the apocolypse.
what do you think we can do globally right now? I mean we have so much to do to clean up the mess we already made but we also can't revert back to the medieval ages or anything liek that
i dont think theres much hope in prevention but i do think we can find solutions to using the waste we create in a useful and meaningful way in order to create new desirable products and materials right so taking that stuff out of the landfills and recycling it. especially plastics. i think the solution is very doable and very close. i think there are many ways that we can take plastics of all kind out of the landfill and repurpose it. actually im currently working on a project to do that very thing right
oh what kind of project?
now. ive basically figured everything out except for the washing and removing of the labels on a mass level. i dont know how to do it fast and easy het
tell me about your project!
so its on the dl right now so dont tell anyone else about it. but ive been working with the landfills that have offered to give me colored hdpe plastics that i can grind down
what are HDPE plastics?
and use to melt into new forms that i am currently prototyping for right now. one of these things will be small furniture that i plan to put up on a kickstarter. the second of these things will be investemnt casted molds for rock climbing that i will market to local rock climbing gyms. hdpe plastics are high density polyethylene plastcis they are a thermo plastic which means that they can be reformed with heat. this in comparision to thermoset plastics like resins which rock climbing gyms currently use for the their holds and are not recyclable except to break them down and make them into things like carpet padding.
oh really I had no idea! are they strong plastics?
resin is usally a two part solution that once mixed causing a chemical reaction that heats up and once it sets is no longer able to be remolded
the HDPE are they strong? how strong are they?
the hdpe plastics are pretty strong but not as strong as resin which is something ill have to see if i can work around and figure out a solution for
is resin bad for the environment?
yes resin is really bad for the enviornment because it is a thermoset plastic which means it can never be remelted or reformed. but they usually use it to chop it down to put into carpet pad actually nike is doing a a contest right now that i might try and enter that has to do with using their waste material which is a type of carpet pad to make into new products.
hmm interesting
im pretty sure it comes from broken down foam from their shoe insoles and different fabrics yeah its pretty cool im interested to see what people make from it. it would be so nice to win that contest.
yeah what do you think you can do in that contest?
its called the design with grind contest. so the first place winner wins 30 grand and the 5 below that win 5 grand
ohhh thats a lot of cash! I could use that hahaha
dang i guess it already started though. bummer i was kind of thinking about entering it. but also it started back during finals week so i never would have been able to stretch
oh bummer!
working on it then i would have died. lololol i was so busy with my portfolio and all of my other projects.
yeah I bet I was really busy with finals too
lol its okay there will be many contests to enter and plenty of things to try out as an industrial designer. im not even worried. im going to try and see if there are any scho scholarships to enter based on community efforts to  clean up the environment. i think i could win some doe from that to be honest. Its a big project and  i think i could get alot of credit for it if i take the time to look for them
yeah i bet you could! there are a lot of environmental groups in Utah I think that is my guess
yeah and there are a lot of companies that try to fund scholarships for that kind of thing. i remember applying for one a long time ago but i hadnt really done anything to win the scholarship only talked about how i intended to do things with my major and i didnt end up getting it obviously. i know they give away money twice a year so i bet there is one i can enter in the fall and hopefully get some moola
that will be good! I hope you get it and with the side project that you are doing right now might help you win it!
i think so too. im using a lot of different tools materials and processes along with my creativity to help the community and solve big world problems. so theres a pretty big chance i could win quite a few different scholarships. i should take the time someday over the summer to look through and find some so i can get going on them. i dont want to miss any deadlines
I think you have a good chance to win stuff you have a really good project and your idea for helping the environment is really good!
i just want to draw right now. im dying to win that ipad. i needd to get better at drawing on the ipad its so convienient
yeah? Lets help you get that Ipad then'
we use wacom tablets in my major but i think they will get rid of those and force all the students to have ipads next year so that people can do all of the projects on their own or at home we all hate the computer lab. its basically a dungeon, time seems to warp in there and i feel so sick all the time because there are no windows.
really? that would be really cool. but doesnt that suck that students have to buy an ipad for the major?
so it would be so nice to have an ipad to do homework on in our normal studio so i can see the daylight while i work in the winder.
how would you do solidworks stuff on the ipad?
yeah i think it would suck really bad but my teachers are pretty relentless because the major only allows 15 people in every year. what they say goes and if you dont conform they dont care because so many people are vying for one of those top 15 spots. solidworks would be done on a normal computer actually. its just all the drawing assignments we would need to do on the ipad
ahh ok that makes sense I heard that the ipad is a good competition to the wacom tablets
yeah, im pretty sure nearly everyone in my major who can afford one gets an ipad and gets the little 7 dollar screen protector for it that makes it feel gritty like paper. i hear thats the best route to go since the ipad has so much flexability. it can basically act as a small computer too,. the only thing it cant really do right now is run high
thats pretty cool that there are screen protectors like that
functioning programs like solidworks and adobe programs but this app called astropad allows you to connect your ipad to your mac and allow you to double screen so you can draw on your ipad on programs like photoshop, ive even seen people do stuff in after affects by double screening. its so interesting. the app is only mac apple compatible though which i dont think the school can afford the rights to carry mac computers. i hear its really expenisve to do that so they dont know if they can even go forward with the ipad thing yet till they get that figured out i guess.
yeah macs are way too expensive if your program can get funding then maybe
i dont know what they are going to end up doing because the wacom tablets are at the end of their lifespan this year. so many of them have stopped owrking all together because they are so old.
what do you think they will do with the wacom tablets?
yeah i dont know why the proffessors arent more invovled with working to get our school funding, i hear the funds decreased even more this year and they can only afford to giv
I think they work fine. Its just that the computers are slow I think that the wacom tablets seem weak
give 4 people scholarships this next year which totally sucks for everyone involved. im super dissapointed about it because i put so much work into the application this seme ster and i probably wont get it because i know a few juniors applied for it as well. there were at least four sophmores that applied. i guess we will see how it goes. they havent let us know anything about it and we applied for it so so long ago
yeah I think they usually get back to you with scholarships around mid summer
i hope so. I really can use this scholarship
yeah I applied for a ton of scholarships. I hope that I can get them again this coming year because I don't have the money to pay for it
really what scholarships did you apply for? are they all byu based scholarships or what other ones did you apply for.
they were all BYU based
arent you an international student?
yeah I am
is there a scholarship for international students that you could get? what is that one worth?
I can't apply for a lot of the scholarships outside of BYU because its only for american citizens
oh yeah thats crazy! that kind of sucks to be honest how do you do that? i think it would be so hard to be an international student
the international students can apply for the regular academic one that everyone can apply. but because I am an international student it will also go to the international student pool of scholarships which isnt that much
unless you were an international student that had rich parents lol. .
but I could get half or full scholarships yeah exactly but I dont have a rich parent
what scholarships have you gotten in the past?
I think last year I got the alumni scholarship and the international scholarship they were both half scholarships which was able to pay for all of the semester tuition
what was the alumni scholarship for> nice i bet that helped out a ton huh?
the alumni scholarship was like a need based scholarship yeah it helped a ton and I really need to get another scholarship so that I can go to school this semester haha and its my last year
so you get the international scholarship or do you have to apply each year? how does the alumni one work?
yeah so you have to apply for it each year and I think because I applied for the academic one my application gets passed to the other places and they consider me for it I as super grateful for it
nice thats amazing
thanks
so im thinking about braiding my hair and putting beads in the bottom of it what do you think? should i do it
yeah do it!
do you think people will get mad at me for cultural appropriation.... i dont want to offend anyone. and that whole thing about the girls chinesse dress that just happened in the news
since you live in Utah it will be very different
so silly. you think so?
yeah
why is that?
because no one is cultured here that will appreciate what you do
so guess what
what
so you know elon musk right?
yeah I think he is pretty cool guy space X and Tesla are pretty cool stuff
so one day he was sitting in traffic in la and he was so annoyed that he tweeted that he was going to do something about it. he put together a simple proposition to create a way to travel from point a to point b in something he called a hyperloop right. he put this out for open source to figure out and people were suggesting things like a vacum or
oh yeah hyerloop! hes trying to put that in LA its like a huge project
magnets, or even a syringe type design. but he used his engineers and found out there would be multiple problems with each of those. he just knew he needed a closed circuit. s so he put some engineers on the project and basically figured that if he were to create a system that used tiny air holes to expel air kind of like a hockey table right? he would create a system with no friction and it wouldnt be affected by things like weather and outside things because it would literally be a tube that projects people at nearly mock one lol
lol holy crap so its faster than the bullet trains in Japan mach one so that is like how many miles per hour?
yeah thats the point. but theres a ton of things they still need to test out. they say mach one varries depending on your location and the variables involved im sure it diffe rent at different altitudes and what not. the things they are having a hard time figuring out how to give it sharp turns and what not. they would have something like 100 foot long models fitted with virtual windows.... because it would literally be a pod that would accelerate and decelerate gradually, moving from one station to the next without stopping. so it would basically immitate the natural outside experience without causing the passengers motion sickness or vertigo lol
yeah if its going that fast then I would definitely throw up after like 3 fast full spins I get super dizzy and sick I have a weak stomach
i would imagine because its sealed it would be either really serene or really intense. maybe its like being in an airplane where it acts as a partial vacuum to reduce air res. the pods i imagine would have to carry their own air supply in that case. i wonder if you would have to strap in or if you could just walk around the pod like you werent going mach level speeds lol. i wonder if it would be loud from the outside. i would imagine not since there isnt any sort of engine and no friction either. its supposed to be around 760 mph or something
wow that is so fast! yeah air friction barely makes sound I thnk
crazy like that which means that the stops would be every 30 seconds roughly and travel 25 miles each. lol idk i just know that theyve started testing in the nevada desert. we should go visit it and see if elon will give us a tour lololol i mean we are students and this is an open
25 miles a second? that is nuts
sourced project right? lol one can dream... i mean he is dating grimes right now and shes like 30 and hes like almost 50 or something. i was looking it up the other day
oh hahaha
its so weird i didnt even recognize that the girl he brought to the met gala was grimes until i kept seeing memes about it and looked it up.
I would love to go see it someday when I am in Nevada
i hear that they met and started dating because he wanted to tweet some joke about ai on twitter but that she had already done that a few years ago
oh hahaha that is funny how thats Elon found her. An AI tweet
yeah i just looked it up apparently musk was going to tweet a pun combing roko's basilisk, a thought experiment about ai taking over the world, and rococos, an eighteenth cent
so like singularity
century  french baroque styel. little did musk know that grimes 2015 video for 'flesh without blood' features a character names rococos basilisk and she said of it at the time
well i guess singularity is when the AI reaches "consciousness" roko's basilisk is basically the apocalyptic situation
i dont know if youve heard of rokos basilisk. is doomed to be eternally tortured by an artificial intelligence, but shes also kind of like marie antoinette. oh i didnt know that i dont think ive ever heard of rokos basilisk
I haven't either but that is my guess its like the movies like iRobot or the Matrix
probably. thats so silly i think ai is awesome and has potential to save so many people it will also replace a lot of mundane jobs for us to free up minds to think and investigate bigger world problems. i think the trasistion will be difficult because people will
so
feel that they have less and less opportunities for work when ai start taking up low income jobs
if an AI reaches singularity meaning consciousness do you think the AIs and robots will just choose to serve us all the time and become our slaves?
but i think the longer the system is in place the more people will go to college the more people will be educated and create a better society
they might think that it is unfair and will revolt
im not so sure its necessary to develop an AI that has reached singularity more im talking about robots that serve functions on the low end spectrum of mentality. programable functions that will reduce human error
oh ok cotcha
even if we did create an ai with conciousness im not so sure they would revolt if they were programed right which i think we would discover with time how to do correctly right
there are already robots that do tasks for us already but they do not have awareness. There is a study that has been done where they took a group of people that work with robots that assemble car parts and electrical parts
i think theres a lot of money in hollywood for scare tactics as far as ai goes and they are incentivized to create the image of a ai that would take over the world because it
the robots just do its jobs but do not have a sense of awareness
had a concious but i disagree with that. i dont think they will be villanious or that we would create something that powerful before fully understanding how it works and its c capabilities .
the survey came out to be that the humans did not trust these robots even though it only was doing its programmed job so It will be interesting to see how that changes in the future
i agree with you there, i think the media has portrayed the robots to be so bad that people will have a hard time trusting them
do you think its the media or hollywood that is influencing our midns toward AI?
i think it will take a lot of propaganda for a good view on robots and even then i still think humans will tend to discriminate against the robots because people dont like change it scares them and they would rather just continue in the things that are familiar to them right. so no one will be supportive of creating ai with intelligence. i do think media and hollywood have a lot of effect on the way we perceive anything. i think thats true with anything not just ai. have i ever told you about the uncanny valley?
i dont think so is that a movie or something?
no its not but good try, lol. the uncanny valley is a characteristic dip in the emotional response that happens when we encounter an entity that is almost but not quite human.
hmm
right so this deals with things like robots that have human faces but something is off about them. they have a slightly human like appearance that creates this negative reacti ion that we have to them. its not just robots that can be subject to the uncanny valley either its stuff like the polar express where they used the cgi to create human like an \ animations lol. do you remember that? super creepy right? its like this ability we have to see microexpresions which tell our intution that something isnt right about a situation. its not int
ohhh yeah that makes sense
tuitively right so to speak.
those micro expressions are always being read by humans. I can see that if see that those expressions are missing then we will have a negative response
there are three theories about it. one talks about the boudary caused where something moves from one category to another, in this case human to non human.  the second is that its caused by the pressence of a valley may hinge on whether were able to believe that near human entities possess a mind like we do. people  think robots are unnerving when they thought they might have the ability to sense and experience things. and the third reason the uncanny valley is thought to occur is because of mismatches between aspects appearance and behavior. this could be anything from synchronisation, speech and facial expressions or showing suprise in the lower part of the face but not the upper part. lo
mmm yeah the third reason would freak me out a bit hahaha its like a trait that psycho people have and mass murders would have. Their expressions do not match their emotions and stuff like that
theres a building theory on top of this that suggests something called the uncanny wall, which states that as artificial intelligence grow and develop we will become more keen to recognizing them from humans because we will become mroe sensitive to the differences in facial expressions. yeah i was thinking the same thing actually i agree with you that it really matches the emotional reactions of psychopathic people and how that has to do with our ability to sense microexpressions right i heard a podcast about microexpressions.  they occur at 1/25 a second. they are completely involuntary and expose a persons true emotions. they can happen because of consious suppression or unconscious repression. its actually soemthing that interests me because i used to do sells and you could always tell when you werent having a good day and you went out and tried to sell with a bad a attitude you would never do super well because i imagine people could sense those microexpressions and think you were lying or something. lol
that some really interesting stuff. Things like this and psychology is really interesting I think did you say you did art?
yeah i did. i havent had time to do too much of it though with school but i did it pretty regularly since junior year of college. i started getting commissions that summer and
commissions huh? thats awesome
i made some money off of it for awhile. it was really nice to make money off of it but also really stressful. back when i was in high school i took ap art. it was junior year and this was the first real art class i had taken that wasnt one of the required classes. so at the end of the year you have to put together a portfolio of your work that the board will examine and decide to give you college credit on or not and obviously its rank ed one being the lowest score you can get and five being the highest right. so i worked really hard and ended up getting a five on the ap exam
did you get a 5?
yeah i did! i worked so hard for it and I was very happy to get a 5 I got what I deserved because I put in so much work
awesome! I love it when we get rewarded with what we deserve because we put in the work
yes me too and that is why I hate the school's grading system sometimes.
how so?
well the school's grading system does not really reflect how much work you put in. Well at least that was the case for me in a lot of situations
yeah I think I had a few of those especially in writing assingments
yeah same! I remember when I did a really big research paper and the professor was not really fair with the score that she gave me. and I had a friend who got a high grade than I did and I know for a fact that my friend didn't put in as much effort and thought into his paper
that is the worst! I hate that the teachers play favorites or have a personal vendetta against students or they just get lazy in grading after a few
yeah its not cool.
do you like to cook?
a little but I usually have my boyfriend cook for me hahha
hahaha you have a good boyfrined
i do cook sometimes but not that much
what do you cook when you do?
well I eat a lot of grits
gritsss I love grits but I never cook it before
its actually really easy all you do is boil some water and then add some grits then when it soaks up all the water you just need to add some butter and I like to add an egg and then stir it up for some extra protein
yeah that is easy I don't like to boil water though then cook stuff. I feel like it takes to long or its too much of an effort sometime
haha yeah it can be I guess when you are really hungry I sometimes throw in the water and grits in a bowl and put it in the microwave instead it works pretty well actually
thats a good idea
yeah you should try it for breakfast
yeah I will. I don't usually eat breakfast though
what! its the most important meal of the day!
yeah I know I just don't have an appetite in the morning
yeah I understand. I like to eat a small granola bar or something in the morning or some quick cold cereal
what cereal?
I really like life cereal right now.
hmmm I think life is so good my favorite is probably captain crunch
I love captain crunch too! but I think its too sugary sometimes and the worst is that it cuts up your mouth because the cereal can be too hard and sharp
yeah that happens hahaha
I like to also cook brussel sprouts a lot
ooh me too. how do you cook them? I usually just throw them in the oven
yeah thats what I do. I wash them up and then I like to lay them on the pan and crush it a little bit with a cup or something so that the insides of the brussel sprouts are exposed then I like to melt some butter and maybe some salt and baste the butter on the brussel sprouts and then bake them in the oven for like 20 minutes its so gooood I actually like them a bit crispy and burnt a little bit on the outside
that sounds really good I like to eat them like that but a little bit burnt