Blog Post #2

I listened to an episode from The TWIML AI Podcast. The episode was titled, “Using AI to Diagnose and Treat Neurological Disorders with Archana Venkataraman”. This episode helped me to better understand my topic on how AI can make an impact on neurology. My question within my topic is “Will the Future of Technology Regarding AI Advancement be Conducive to the Progression of Curing Brain Cancer?” One interesting point that was made in the podcast episode was that in neurology, there are shortcomings when it comes to benchmarks in terms of methodology and data. This is an aspect of neurology that I will think about when I am researching more into my subject. Additionally, the episode talked about how AI can help those suffering from specific neurological disorders such as autism and epilepsy. Moving forward, I am going to particularly focus my topic on AI that can help cure epilepsy.

Dragonfruit Snack!

9/2- I’ve noticed that dragon fruits come in many different shapes and sizes. I have two of them at home right now, and one is narrow and the other one is wide. The two I have are around the same size, though. I am planning on eating some tomorrow and possibly making a drink, but we’ll see. I wonder what the process is like for growing and caring for dragon fruits. I know they are grown in places like Central America, parts of Asia, and more. It would be really cool if there was a farm full of dragon fruit. I also wonder if they come in different colors because some fruits do. I am very eager to one day try dragon fruit on its own, and make my own drink!

9/3- I was curious about passion fruits because I was thinking that they were the same as dragon fruits. I went online and looked up the difference between the two. They are two different fruits. I thought that if anything dragon fruit was a subspecies or something of passion fruit, but that is not the case. Anyway, I didn’t make a drink with the dragon fruit, but I did cut it up and make a small snack! The process was super easy, I just Googled a simple cutting tutorial. My dragon fruit was bright purplish-pink on the inside, and I was able to cut it up into cubes. The video I watched featured a dragon fruit that was white on the inside. The ones I have at home are similar to the kind that Starbucks puts in their dragon fruit drinks. It was delicious and I shared it with my family and they gave me positive feedback. My mom said she liked how it wasn’t too sweet. I liked the taste and thought that the color was really pretty. In the future, I will definitely make a drink with dragon fruit. The seeds were black, but against the dark purple, they were unnoticeable. I would highly encourage everyone to try this amazing fruit.