Robert McNeesThe students in my upper-level electrodynamics course are taking their final exam right now, which always reminds me of the time I told my students they could bring a formula sheet to the final exam as long as it was on one side of a piece of paper.
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PopehatSo I’ve let this account languish. I’m on Post (@popehat) and I’ve been avoiding Mastodon only because I need to figure out how to switch servers (this one is blocked all over). I’m logged in on my iPad but, hilariously, I can’t find where I wrote my password and the “recover password” function isn’t working or is super-slow to send an email. Anyway. I intend to build up and use a Mastodon account now that I’m leaving Twitter but it might take a bit.
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Dan GillmorIncreasingly, I believe that the destruction of Musk's Twitter is crucial for the preservation of American democracy. I was neutral on this until the past few days. But it's now obvious that his intentions -- and actions -- are aimed in part at promoting right-wing extremism.
The Murdoch family is still the greater threat, but Musk looks set to supersede them as a force for evil.
Ricky Mondello🔑 Huge news! Google’s announced that passkeys are available in Google Chrome 108. So we have iOS, iPadOS, macOS, Safari, and Chrome with support.
If you’re responsible for a website or app, or its authentication story, it’s time to look at passkeys. https://blog.chromium.org/2022/12/introducing-passkeys-in-chrome.html
nixCraft 🐧IBM slide, 1979 ... 😅 https://twitter.com/_w0bb1t_/status/1484198603337908226/photo/1
@Wolven I didn't see your previous posts on this issue.
I read a couple of your posts and don't fault the point you make. My colleagues and I have made tremendous effort to limit egregious plagiarism, for little gain. Students paying for assignments is also terribly inequitable.
My 2c is that years are spent over-emphasizing grades over learning. When the students reach the post-secondary system, changing the minds of a few, among hundreds is nearly intractable. Systematic change is needed.
I read a couple of your posts and don't fault the point you make. My colleagues and I have made tremendous effort to limit egregious plagiarism, for little gain. Students paying for assignments is also terribly inequitable.
My 2c is that years are spent over-emphasizing grades over learning. When the students reach the post-secondary system, changing the minds of a few, among hundreds is nearly intractable. Systematic change is needed.
@Wolven A more straightforward solution is for the instructor to submit a few outputs of GPT-3 to turnitin, etc and compare that to the rest of the assignments. Turnitin also compares against a large database of text signatures, so more and more matches should be produced over time.
Qasim Rashid, Esq.This is truly enraging.
The terrorist who killed 5 people at Club Q boasted during a 2021 bomb threat about his plans to become “the next mass killer.” Knowing this full well, authorities dropped all charges anyway and still let him keep his guns. His records were then sealed to ensure he wouldn't have to face the consequences for his threats to terrorism.
Meanwhile, Tamir Rice played with a toy gun and authorities killed him in 1.7 seconds because they "feared for their lives."
Two Americas.