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Homework 10 Summary
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Time Log 1. Summarize your activities, including new content created. Provide all the hyperlinks of new content. In this assignment, I created two new posts. The first post talks about the Japanese island of Aogashima and its unique that its inhabitants occupy. The second post covers the 10,000-year-old forest Pando that is actually a single…
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High in the mountains of central Utah stands what looks like a typical forest of quaking aspen. But appearances are deceiving. Known as Pando, this grove is not a forest of separate trees—it’s one single organism. Located within the Fishlake National Forest, Pando consists of roughly 47,000 genetically identical quaking aspen stems spread across about…
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In the Philippine Sea, about 350 kilometers south of Tokyo, the small Japanese island of Aogashima stands as one of the most unusual inhabited places on Earth. This tiny community is built inside the caldera of an active volcano. Aogashima is part of the Izu Islands, an archipelago formed by volcanic activity along the Pacific…
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Homework 9 Summary
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Time Log 1. Summarize your activities, including new content created. Provide all the hyperlinks of new content. In this assignment, I created two new posts. The first post shows some pictures of my dog Senna. The second post explains and gives an example of proof by contraposition. In addition to the new posts/pages, I also…
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5 Moderately Interesting Facts About Watermelon
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2 min read
1. Watermelon Is Technically a Berry Botanically speaking, watermelon qualifies as a berry. It develops from a single flower with a single ovary, which places it in the same general category as grapes and tomatoes. 2. Watermelons Are About 92% Water As its name strongly implies, watermelon is mostly water—around 92% of it. Because of…
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Homework 6 Summary
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Time Log 1. Summarize your activities, including new content created. Provide all the hyperlinks of new content. In this assignment, I created two new posts (and this summary post, of course). The first post discusses the reservoir sampling algorithm, which is an algorithm that can be used to uniformly sample without replacement from a stream…
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Master Oogway Appreciation Post 🐢
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1 min read
There are many examples of the mysterious mentor trope, but few commit to it as completely as Master Oogway in Kung Fu Panda. Oogway operates with the calm confidence of someone who has already read the script and decided not to spoil it for anyone else. While the rest of the characters spiral over prophecy,…
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Homework 5 Summary
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3 min read
Time Log 1. Describe your menu structure and what you have implemented in your CMS. My menu structure consists of three four-level options: Home, My Life, Tech, and Homework. The Home option simply returns to the home page. The My Life lists the posts related to my personal life, including my hobbies and hometown. Likewise,…
