Albert Einstein’s involvement with the Manhattan Project is a study of unintended consequences and the moral complexities faced by scientists. The project offers profound insights into the ethical responsibilities of scientists and the unforeseen consequences of technological advancements for us human. I think we can integrate ethics into scientific education to reduce the side effects.

It’s both interesting and sad that how often human innovation brings unintended consequences, for example, in areas like AI, genetic engineering, both pros and cons come out as the tech develops. I think we need to handle those technologies carefully.

Apple’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) feature requires apps to ask users for permission before tracking their data across apps and websites, which make users feel more safe. However, for other companies that are tracking user data without caring about permissions, this agreement makes them look selfish and irrespectful. As a user, I support agreement like ATT to protect our privacy and safety.

For us customers, the existence of monopolies are not always good. For example, I like Haidilao Hotpot. However, if there is only one hot pot restaurant in Seattle, then Haidilao could infinitely increase its price. If there are a lot of delicious hot pot restaurants in Seattle, then they will be competitive and try their best to improve the quality of food and service, thus making us customers feel better.

For me, this book offers a fascinating glimpse into the intellectual and personal exchange between two of the 20th century’s most influential philosophers. It is valuable not only for scholars but also for anyone interested in how philosophical inquiry responds to historical trauma and political upheaval.

This is so true for me because as the tech develops and more people joining the Internet, a single post can go viral within hours, reaching millions of people before facts are verified. This rapid spread can lead to disproportionate consequences, where individuals are punished not just by their immediate peers but by an entire online mob.

As a cs student, since online raids rely on coordination and anonymity, I could study how information spreads on platforms like 4chan, Reddit, and Twitter that help model crowd behavior in digital spaces. Also, I could study how recommendation systems (like YouTube, Facebook) sometimes prioritize controversial or extreme content,

I feel like the statement is broad, linking different forms of collective aggression under “crowd harassment.” While riots, mob violence, and government persecution involve crowds, they could have different motivations and consequences.

The paper Beyond Being There by Jim Hollan and Scott Stornetta, presented at the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’92), is a groundbreaking work in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) and digital communication. Their argument challenges conventional assumptions about the necessity of physical presence for effective communication. Instead of merely trying to replicate face-to-face interactions, Hollan and Stornetta propose that technology should enhance communication beyond what is possible in physical presence, a concept that continues to influence modern communication technologies, including virtual teamwork, augmented reality (AR), and AI-driven collaboration. I think this perspective is particularly powerful because it reframes the goal of technology.

I know some apps like google slides, github allow users to work together and see real-time activities, When large groups of people contribute to a shared goal, they can create knowledge that is more comprehensive, accurate, and diverse than what any individual or small team could achieve alone.

The article discusses a problem that most college students are familiar with—how social media and photo-editing apps affect body image. Platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat constantly promote unrealistic beauty standards through filters and editing tools. As a student myself, I see this when friends and even myself feel the pressure to use filters just to feel “presentable” online.

This is true because in real life, students do form communities like channels on discord to support each other. When you know you are with a lot of people and this feels safe and not alone.

Feels like it's interesting to see how cetaceans evolved from terrestrial to aquatic life. The transition involves significant anatomical changes, which is fascinating from an evolutionary biology perspective. For a computer science major, the evolutionary process could be compared to iterative software development, where each iteration brings modifications and improvements, similar to how each species in the cetacean lineage adapted over time to better suit aquatic environments.

For Replication with Inheritance: I feel like this is pretty much about the basis of object-oriented programming, I've learned in class. Also, just like in biology, you have classes (organisms) that can create instances (copies) that inherit characteristics (properties and methods) from their parent classes.

The tweet by Kelsey D. Atherton seems to be making a comment on how individual actions are often suggested as solutions to systemic or structural problems. I feel like the satirical tone suggests skepticism or criticism of oversimplified solutions to complex problems.

I feel sometimes overuse of this property can worsen our experiences, for example, some people add a lot of irrelavent tags to their post and their post is recommended to a lot of people. But this can be really annoying when you see something that doesn't align with the tag you like.

The Social Model of Disability represents a paradigm shift in how disability is perceived by other people and treated in society. I think traditional medical models are not respectiing the individuals because they think disability as deficiency in the individual, the social model suggests that disability is created by societal barriers, attitudes, and structures that fail to accommodate diverse physical and mental conditions.

People with disabilities often feel difficult due to various challenges caused by their conditions. Therefore we should do as much as possible to make their lives easier. For example, I think it is very warm to have parking spots for disabled in parking lot so that they can park in a nearby place without moving around.

I learned from this that Bcrypt is designed to be slow to prevent brute-force attacks. The slowness of Bcrypt adds a significant time cost to each hashing attempt, so it can reduce the harmness from potential brute force attacks.

I feel like this is very insecure, for example, if someone set all the passwords across different platforms the same one, then the leakage of Facebook passwords can cause all the accounts' leaked.

I feel like the observation made by Eleanor about the correlation between daily COVID-19 cases in the USA and bad reviews of Yankee Candles on Amazon mentioning “they don’t have any scent” is a fascinating example of how seemingly unrelated data sets can show unexpected correlations. One of the symptoms of COVID-19 is the loss of smell, scientifically known as anosmia.

This is true because we can tell from different English slangs to infer some information about the user. Social media data such as user profiles, the content of posts, group memberships, and network connections can be analyzed using machine learning algorithms to predict a user’s race. For instance, the language used in posts or the cultural groups one interacts with online can provide indicators of one’s racial background.

This is really interesting because it is hard for us to believe in spaghetti grows from trees. But this particular hoax, orchestrated by the BBC’s current affairs program Panorama in 1957, convinced many viewers that spaghetti grew on trees, which reminds us that too much credibility and trust shouldn't be given to social media.

I feel like this is still true even today. In online games, those who are not good at playing games can be teased or even abused verbally, which is really rude but still happens from time to time.

I feel like this is a fascinating example of how text analysis and data science can be applied to social media to distinguish between the voices of different authors using the same account. Since this kind of differentiation is crucial for understanding the personal versus managed dimensions of public figures’ social media presences, we will want to study more about this.

This feels so interesting. The fact that tweets from Donald Trump’s account varied depending on whether they were sent from an Android device or an iPhone suggests that multiple individuals had access to the account. This is common for public figures, where a team might manage communications for clarity, reach, and engagement, while personal posts might reflect more direct, unfiltered thoughts. So I don't usually fully believe in their figure on the Internet.

We know from “Writing on the Wall” that the concept of social media is not a new one, nor is it solely a product of the 21st century. The author said that what we now call social media have historical precedents that date back to the Roman Empire and beyond, which is really interesting.

We still use emails a lot today, I feel like this is really a great invention that has large impact in our daily lives.