Tangentially, another idea I was always curious about was to incorporate some degree of self-evaluation into homework and exams. Basically, give students a number of "confidence points" that they can assign to increase the weight of a given problem. That way, they can assign more to problems that they're confident in the solution to, also avoiding penalizing students for not knowing some particular thing by rote.
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It's funny, but quite a while ago when I was briefly considering going into teaching computer science, I thought it might be interesting to give homework and/or exam problems that have students program under various unusual restrictions. -
It's funny, but quite a while ago when I was briefly considering going into teaching computer science, I thought it might be interesting to give homework and/or exam problems that have students program under various unusual restrictions.I feel like that idea looks a lot better now that AI coding "assistants" have pushed so many homogenized ideas of what programming can and should look like. Encouraging students to go outside of that kind of local optima, even to a worse solution, seems like it can only have the effect of pushing back on that homogenization.
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It's funny, but quite a while ago when I was briefly considering going into teaching computer science, I thought it might be interesting to give homework and/or exam problems that have students program under various unusual restrictions.It's funny, but quite a while ago when I was briefly considering going into teaching computer science, I thought it might be interesting to give homework and/or exam problems that have students program under various unusual restrictions. For example, accomplish some task without a `for` loop, or something. Basically try to encourage getting to know *all* of the tools a language offers.
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D&D holds more value as a tradition than as a game system.@noracodes (All meant in good humor, in case I missed the mark on tone.)
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D&D holds more value as a tradition than as a game system.@noracodes How dare you choose violence by being so correct?
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It's my birthday today*, and so I want to celebrate by getting to know folks who follow me or are otherwise in the range of boosts and other social media generalizations of lightcones.5. Do you have a favorite RFC, and if so, what is it?
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It's my birthday today*, and so I want to celebrate by getting to know folks who follow me or are otherwise in the range of boosts and other social media generalizations of lightcones.4. What's a recent fictional book by someone who isn't a white cisgender man (that is, who is in a relatively less privileged position) that you would love if more people knew about?
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It's my birthday today*, and so I want to celebrate by getting to know folks who follow me or are otherwise in the range of boosts and other social media generalizations of lightcones.3. What's a great JRPG that isn't Final Fantasy that you wish more people would know about? (Or a more obscure / unloved Final Fantasy, really... just something that you want to put in a good word for!)
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It's my birthday today*, and so I want to celebrate by getting to know folks who follow me or are otherwise in the range of boosts and other social media generalizations of lightcones.2. Do you have a favorite complexity class, and if so, what is it?
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It's my birthday today*, and so I want to celebrate by getting to know folks who follow me or are otherwise in the range of boosts and other social media generalizations of lightcones.1. Do you have a favorite kind of battery, and if so, what is it?
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It's my birthday today*, and so I want to celebrate by getting to know folks who follow me or are otherwise in the range of boosts and other social media generalizations of lightcones.It's my birthday today*, and so I want to celebrate by getting to know folks who follow me or are otherwise in the range of boosts and other social media generalizations of lightcones.
To do so, I'm going to post a thread of questions ranging from the somewhat practical to the absurd. If there are any you have an opinion on** and feel like it'd be fun to chime in on, please do so!
(*opsec failure for me to say that, I guess I need to change my birthday now)
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So my question as usual on reading this was https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/113154208761194050 "how do you manage and distribute the keys?" and it appears discord has a legitimately interesting solution to that problem which is "look we'll just sorta do ...@mcc I think that's more or less how Signal's safety numbers work? They used to be a lot more prominent in the UI but non-computer-touchers that I know tended to get intimidated by the concept.
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There's plenty here I disagree with, but it is for the most part a pretty cogent argument about the financial realities surrounded generative AI.There's plenty here I disagree with, but it is for the most part a pretty cogent argument about the financial realities surrounded generative AI.
In particular, the point that companies with gigantic genAI investments can't admit that they're wrong without hemorrhaging both customer and investor trust, so everyone just keeps kicking the can down the road.
The Subprime AI Crisis
None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of where we are today and where we may end up on the current path. I believe that the artificial intelligence boom — which would be better described as a generative AI boom
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At (www.wheresyoured.at)
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This is straight up the destruction of culture, and should be treated as the iconoclasm that it is.This is straight up the destruction of culture, and should be treated as the iconoclasm that it is.
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Synthesis: LLMs result from the fact that the people who make decisions about computers are generally not computer touches, and thus are generally predisposed to approach computers as magic, while many computer touchers are effectively bootlickers, and...Be your own wizard.
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Synthesis: LLMs result from the fact that the people who make decisions about computers are generally not computer touches, and thus are generally predisposed to approach computers as magic, while many computer touchers are effectively bootlickers, and...Take magic back. Don't let magic be another captive of capitalism. Be the magic you want the world to be shaped like. Make magic because it makes you happy.
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Synthesis: LLMs result from the fact that the people who make decisions about computers are generally not computer touches, and thus are generally predisposed to approach computers as magic, while many computer touchers are effectively bootlickers, and...Synthesis: LLMs result from the fact that the people who make decisions about computers are generally not computer touches, and thus are generally predisposed to approach computers as magic, while many computer touchers are effectively bootlickers, and thus approach their own craft as magic.
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"Computer touching" really is just being a wizard.@noracodes We may already be past the Clarke threshold, if only because we are so far past any single individual's ability to comprehend what a computer is.
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Got my little gemlog proxy to forward outgoing Gemini links to a Gemini/HTTP proxy, so should no longer need a Gemini browser to read any of the feed or any toots at all.@cthos (Fun, too: that powers the DNS upstream for our entire tailnet, so that every mobile phone, tablet, everything gets ad blocking, even when we're not home. It's kind of amazing.)
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Got my little gemlog proxy to forward outgoing Gemini links to a Gemini/HTTP proxy, so should no longer need a Gemini browser to read any of the feed or any toots at all.@cthos Lolz, completely fair. I run a DNS chain with a pi-hole upstreaming to a cloudflared proxy that turns everything into DoT or DoH; that in turn upstreams to quad9 since they're subject to GDPR.
It's not ideal, but it's a far cry better than CenturyLink getting my whole browsing history.