Why I am at MATC

I recently watched a Ted talk about cosplay. The speaker was Adam Savage one of the hosts of Myth busters. The topic was about how clothing expresses who we are and who we want to be. He talked about how cosplay is an expressive narrative of what we want to be or who we want to be. He used a few slides that were mostly pictures of him as a kid dressed up in costumes he made himself. The other slides he used was reference pictures of what he was talking about for his costumes or other people in cosplay. It was pretty effective strategy to keep people’s attention as well as to be comical. However it also helped displaying his points. There were no real questions asked in this presentation, he mostly went over how he came to love cosplay and why he enjoys it. Humor was used throughout the presentation, he expressed his points though comical slides or he told stories he experienced. The pacing was quite excellent, it didn't feel rushed or to slow. It went along smoothly without feeli...

Smart phones are a constant stable item we use in our day to day life. There are many brands like Apple, Samsung, Android phones etc. A few come with a IPA , or a intelligent personal assistant. Some examples of this are Amazon's Alexa, Microsoft's Cortana, Google, or Apple's Siri. The one i think that could use a bit of a tune up out of the IPA's is Siri. Siri stands as a weak link out of the personal assistant's. Siri is limited to what terms it can respond to because of the fact that it does not use a search engine to help with their knowledge database. This issue could be fixed if Apple came up with their own search engine but i think its a bit to late in the game for them to do so. Google has quite the stable in the search engine market. Microsoft even has bing however not many use it as much as Google's. Siri has a few other issues as well but the main flaw with it is that it has a hard time understanding commands compared to other IPA's. If Apple coul...