Melvin's digital garden

Pathways by Praxium

https://www.praxiumsg.com/pathways

Singapore Digital Economy Report

One activity for the entire session

  • brief: create a app to help match students to industry
  • requirement gathering
  • matching students to industry (industry as a card with capacity)
    • similar to secondary school posting
    • second school posting uses serial dictatorship
  • each student rank every industry (print cards with ranks)
  • how to compare different assignments?
  • do manual assignment to get the best
  • develop an algorithm to do the assignment
  • develop UI for an web-based app
  • present their work to other groups

Activity 1: Write the instructions

  • Hard to express the diagram precisely in English Activity 2: Instruct the robot arm

  • New theme for the marble machine to make the link to IT clearer Activity 3: Should we do that?

  • Should we create automated agents that can choose and attack people in a war?

  • Should we create a system to monitor everyone’s Internet usage to help catch criminals?

  • Should we create an automated system, e.g. driverless cars, that will displace many jobs?

  • Should we create automated agents to manipulate human behavior, e.g. recommend videos to increase time spent on YouTube/TikTok?

  • (Optional) Explain your reasoning for the above question.

  • Instead of looking at to accomplish the goal, let’s think about whether we should do it

  • There may be negative consequences of what we build.

08/03/2022 at St Joseph’s Institution

  • first time doing activity 1 with printed diagram and written instructions
  • first time doing activity 3
  • skipped activity 2

Perhaps do Tic-Tac-Toe AI instead of Minsky Machine?

Alternative goal for Minsky Machine that is scalable. Starting with n boxes in box A, using at most m instructions, make the total number of boxes to be as large as possible. The flow chart must terminate.

01/04/2022 at St Joseph’s Institution

  • first time doing Tic-Tac-Toe AI, went well. Show them evaluator but don’t give them the URL yet.
  • did “Should we do that?” with mentimeter and short response

Warm up the audience first. Ask them questions.

  • What software do you use daily?
  • How do you think software is produced?

25/05/2022 at St Pat and 26th at St Gab

  • What less common softare do you use?
  • Ask them to defeat the sample TTT AI. Prepare a harder version with only 1 way to lose.

08/01/2026 at Outram

  • IT as creating digital products/solutions

    • tiktok, fortnite

  • Solving the right problem

    • relating to other people
    • communications, leadership
    • making a “fun” game
    • agency, judgement, responsibility
    • what is relevant?

  • Finding a solution compatible with existing

    • not feasible to rewrite, redo
    • need to deliver a feature

  • What are the kind of problems has a digital solution?

  • What might that solution look like?

  • What will the future of IT look like?

    • GenAI is able to solve a defined problem, but still gets things wrong
    • doesn’t work well on unusual situations outside of what it has learned

  • activity 1: write the instructions

    • IT as instructions???

  • activity 2: design a ttt AI

    • AI is a set of rules

  • how work happens

  • activity 3: should we do that

    • ethics

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