week 5 blog

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+## Public Good Videos 
+
+The videos I watched about food computers were pretty cool, albeit a little misleading in my opinion.
+I was hoping for something a little more culinarily focused and less agriculturally inclined, but it 
+was nonetheless very interesting and informative. I was most surprised by the class discussion, where
+money was the number one career motivator (according to the anonymous poll). I want to make money too,
+but at the end of the day I don't think I will be able to sleep at night if I don't feel my work has 
+made a positive difference in some way. It doesn't necessarily have to be something world-changing and 
+altruistic. It doesn't even have to be for free or even for the "social good" like the videos we watched
+in class. But I want to feel that my work has value, to _someone_. That it made at least one person's
+life a little bit better and wasn't entirely devoted to selfishness. But, we will see how long those 
+convictions hold once I graduate.
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+## My Ongoing Open Source Contributions
+
+I have made a few open source contributions. I have mostly worked on the class website, suggesting a new
+link to replace a broken one and providing a bug fix for a demo. I have also edited a Wikipedia page. I
+changed "association football" to "soccer" on an American track athlete's page. This was pretty exciting 
+because not only was my 🇺🇸 patriotic 🇺🇸 suggestion accepted, I got a message from a much more established
+Wikipedia contributor thanking me and suggesting more places I could help, with a focus on track and field.
+I think I will try to make some more edits on topics that interest me and get involved with those communities.
+I have also been browsing the GitHub pages of lots of new open source projects that I learn about to see if
+I can potentially contribute in the future. Two in particular I have looked at in the past week are [Fawkes](http://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/fawkes/),
+an "Image Cloaking" tool that poisons facial recognition models and [Brave](https://brave.com/), a privacy-focused
+browser. I think it is interesting that both of these open source tools are all about personal privacy. I don't
+either project will be ideal for my big contribution, but I'll keep them in mind.
+