Showdown at the Not-So OK Corral!

About this episode

The POGS face a challenge to uninvent harmful inventions while dealing with a destructive algorithm.

Episode Description: After avoiding being hacked – the POGS begin uninventing useful inventions such as electricity, cars, and even shoelaces, Even worse, Max and Molly realize the destructive prediction algorithm is spiraling out of control. Aunt Murgatroyd challenges the POGS to a showdown at the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral to distract them, while the kids sneak into the local server site to reprogram the system. Can the team trick the algorithm into uninventing itself before everything good goes away? Math Concepts: Algorithms and computational logic; Pattern recognitionCause and effect in systems; Ratios and percentages (phone battery calculation: 60 ÷ 12 = 5 hours); Line segments and geometry humor referencesHistory/Geography Concepts: The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral; Tombstone in the 1880s; Legendary Western figures – Wyatt Earp & Doc Holliday

People in this episode

Hosts: Max, Molly

Topics covered

• inventions
• algorithms
• historical events
• problem-solving
• computational logic

Keywords

• inventions
• algorithms
• O.K. Corral
• Tombstone
• Wyatt Earp
• Doc Holliday
• computational logic
• problem-solving

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Tombstone

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