CSUMB Week 5 (5 Feb 2025 - 11 Feb 2025)

Part One: Support and Comment on Teammates' Goals

Comments for Brandon:
https://brandonatcsumb.blogspot.com/2025/02/week-4.html

Comments for Valentina:
https://valentinacsjournal.blogspot.com/2025/02/4-january-29th-february-4th-1.html?sc=1739210541780#c98484686114293815

Part Two: Possible Capstone Ideas

    We as a team decided to either create a website or an app instead of a game, as that seems too cliche. For a website, perhaps something that deals with payment systems seems like a good idea. Another one would be to create a web store. Better yet, I suppose we can just combine those two. Lastly, we can create something entirely different. Maybe some form of a data analytic website. I do manual analysis on some niche games, but I'll have to choose something more well known that is familiar with my teammates. 

    As a side, I can probably do another capstone project on my own. Something that deals with machine learning or AI. I recall, while watching previous capstone projects, that there was an AI institute one of the past cohorts has contacted. I should reach out to them to see what, if any, opportunities and ideas may exist. 

Part Three: Keep Up With Your Learning Journal

While researching on some topics our team can make a video on, I came up with two that interested me greatly:

1. The AI race between USA and China

2. Cryptography in the quantum age

    Any topic involving AI will naturally grab my attention, so the news of DeepSeek definitely kept my mind busy. The potential for the massive disruption it will cause on USA's tech giants' business model fascinated me. Ironically, OpenAI's model is more that of "Closed"AI since it is not an open-source program, and their secrecy and research kept them at the forefront of AI advancement; however, DeepSeek is not only more fundamentally efficient but open-source as well. Can't wait to read more into it.

    The topic of cryptography itself does not interest me, but the possible disruption that quantum computing will cause does. How would we ever move forward as a society if data and privacy can no longer remain secure on the internet and data clouds? What will companies do? Do we just move back to physical paper data? That doesn't sound feasible in this era. I have no idea. I suppose this is a whole new topic I can delve in as a personal interest.