First order of business, happy birthday to my mommy. On Wednesdays I have no classes this semester #blessed I spent the morning in my apartment working on stuff. In the afternoon I went to the Espacio Fundación Telefónica in the Telefónica Building with Kayla and Lou. I didn't really know what it would be, but it wasn't what I expected. I thought that it would be more like a telephone/Madrid history museum, and I think there was one permanent exhibit that was more like that, but we went to a temporary exhibit called Codes and Algorithms. It was super cool. It was an art exhibition about modern technology. We took a guided tour, and the guide was really great, and there was a lot of discussion among the group.
Putting this here for my later reference. First PDF on the blog #womeninSTEM
They had this line of code wrapped around this big room. The code is for a model of the exhibition space.
They had a scanner that scans your palm and reads it. We had our hands scanned after the tour. Here's mine. I did not get an analysis, which is wasted. Especially because I have very liney hands, there's a lot to work with, it should've been easy. Guess I'm simply indefinable. Also there was a man in our tour group who was sooo pressed that this is in English. He was kinda right, but it was funny.
There was a stack of 365 books (that I didn't take a picture of, flop) spelled out "Machine Biography" on their spines all together. The books contained all the data collected about one person over the course of the year; each book was a day.
There was a set of computers where you'd watch videos and click to indicate whether or not a crime/something dangerous/suspicious was happening in the video.
This room had projections of all different nouns on the walls paired with pictures of them from a database. If you stood in a spot in the middle of the room, it would scan your face and tell you what noun you look most like based on the pictures from the database. Kayla and Lou did it in front of our group on the tour. Kayla got "Romanov," which is such a slay. Lou got "gringo," and that's when I changed my mind about going in front of the group.
After the tour we did a lap around the exhibit on our own. Then I let it scan my face. I got "woman," "committeewoman," "bursar," and "microeconomist." (These seem pretty librarian adjacent, so maybe they got me.) Lou got "commoner" and "wrongdoer." If I were Kayla, I would've let "Romanov" be the final word, but she went again and got "caveman" and "absconder."
The next section was a room about recreating/reconstructing Roman statues that are missing parts using AI and other Roman statues.
Don't really know exactly what this room was about.
This one is for Jillian.
Anyway it was very very cool.
Me, Kayla, Lou.
I had this god tier pomegranate tonight, had to share with the blog.
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