Why Do Computers Use Binary

3 Things I learned:

1. Sound is vibration in the air. 

2. A digital signal represents a value as a series of discrete values. 

3. Binary is a base 2 numeral system because it uses digits 0 and 1. 

2 Things I don't understand well:

1. How a computer uses these numbers. 

2. The emphasis on the importance of the number 2. 

Something I'd like to know more about:

How is choice the "essence of two-ness?"

Binary Numbers

The highest level I got to on the Binary game was 5. The hardest part of the game was trying to keep up when more rows came up from the bottom. I don't like binary numbers to count with because it takes longer for me to count. You could use each of your fingers as one number. Computers use the numbers as on and off buttons to tell what action to do.

Google Boys Video

Google originated in the late 1990s from only two men, Brim and Page. After the first year of being created, Google had 39 employees. Google is now the standard for how people search things. Since Google has moved forward, two challenges include having to compete with Microsoft and Yahoo. Google is ahead of all it's competition because it of its advertisement. Advertisers pay per click and Google marries search results with Ads so that the advertisements are related to the search words. In order to allow people to make fast searches, Google has a GoogleBot in cyberspace to find all of the information.

Eliza

Eliza is human-like because she responds to whatever you say to her. I would make her seem more human by adding a voice to her. It cannot elaborate on feelings, only give definitions. Computers cannot be good "human-like" substitutes because they do not make sense when you talk to them. People get frustrated trying to communicate with them.

Latino Culture: Pre-Columbian Pyramids

Mayans

• Left behind great cities-ceremonial and trading centers
• Different types of buildings: pyramid-temples, platforms, arcaded halls, and palaces
• Surviving codices and carved monuments called stelae
• Lived in Mesoamerica
• History is divided into three periods: the Pre-Classic, Classic, and Post-Classic
• 400 BCE to the arrival of the Spanish in 1520 CE
• Pyramid-temples of Mesoamerica were surmounted by religious temples
• Believed that sacred buildings should be located at places of power
• Built using fairly simple and rustic tools made of stone

Native American Cultural Background

This bead work is well-known for its beauty and is used in mathematics. This design type is based on four-fold symmetry. The four images of four fold symmetry #1 are Embroidery Plains Indians, Shoshone Beadwork, Pawnee Buffalo Hide Drum, and Navajo Rug. Reflection symmetry is when the right half of something is a mirror image of the left half. Base four counting was used for Native languages. Four fold symmetry #3 is used as Navajo sand paintings in healing ceremonies. Four fold symmetry #4 is used for Yupik parka decorations. Four fold symmetry is shown with beads in rows and columns. The Native American beadwork was created before Europeans arrived. These designs were used to create wampum belts and to record messages and historic events.

Scavenger Hunt Reflection

I am good at finding the most important words to search. I need to work on deciding which website is the most reliable. I also must work on determining if a website is reliable or not.