The Luminous

On 28 March 2018, Chun Hiung and Benedict presented about Self-driving Trucks. From their presentation, I was able to understand more about the technology of self-driving trucks and the limitation of this technology. They also link the topic with the recent news which is a self-driving UBER car hit a pedestrian to dead. You can read more about this news by clicking this link . Their presentation reminds me an episode from Black Mirror -- Crocodile . There was a scene shows that a self-driving vehicle hits a pedestrian. This scene shows a potential problem that might rises from this technology: when a self-driving vehicle hits a person, who to blame? How can we prove that it was the carelessness of the pedestrian that cause this accident, or it was the system error of the self-driving vehicle that cause this accident? In this story, an insurance investigator use a device known as a Recaller to solve this case. Let us think further. If all the vehicles in this world are self-driving ...

Oh No! Year 2 Sem 3 is the semester where students are most likely preparing their final year projects and focus their study. However, I found myself do not have time to focus in study. Let me list down the reasonssss. First of all, at the beginning of the semester, I have 3 events needed to handle. I am the Head of Editorial department from LOL camp (which happened on Week 2), Community Project from Engineering Science Fiesta (which happened on Week 3) and Program department from Maths Runner 2.0 (which happened on Week 4). My first few weeks of the semester are consumed by all these events. Secondly, I need to take actuarial paper Financial Mathematics on Week 6. For this paper, I sacrificed my CNY holidays just to pass this exam. Finally I managed to pass this exam, in exchange, I do not have enough time to prepare my test for the rest of the subjects. Thirdly, I am preparing 5 events. Sales and Marketing of UTAR BALL, which is the most time consuming position because my te...

On 21 March 2018, Andy and Woon presented about CRISPR and gene editing. From their presentation, I was able to know more about CRISPR, gene editing and GMO products. they did a deep analysis about gene, the objective of gene editing, and the effect of CRISPR to the environment. They able to present us the knowledge they learned from this topic and use their critical thinking skill to answer the questions from the audience. Not only their presentation provided many information about this topic, but also they able to grab the audience's attention. In the presentation, Woon act like a lecturer and Andy act like a students. Their presentation was funny enough to make everyone focus on their presentation. This is a very powerful and efficient way to do a presentation. I did some research about GMO products few months ago. GMO is an animal or plant whose genetic material has been changed in order to incorporate new genes, which potentially cause serious health issues if consumed b...

In UALL1053 Critical Reading and Thinking course, one of the main assignment is Class Participation Assignment. This assignment required students to participate class discussions either by asking questions, giving comments related to the topic or presentation, or identifying a fallacy in the presenters' argument(s). I believe that this assignment can help students to train their critical thinking skills. Here are a few reasons why I say so. Listen is one of the first stage to receive information. After listened to people, only we start to interpret the message. But listen is not the same as hear. Based on Luna (2015), the art of listening included active listening, listen without judgement, listen to non-verbal communication and observe other people. All these listening skill only can learned by practicing. Class participation assignment is a good way to practice the listening skill. In order to understand what the presenter say, we must first learn how to listen. Analyze the...