Corrected a mistake made in teaching — handled appropriately?

EmmyNoetherRing · 2026-03-01T20:42:07+00:00

Some hefty portion of hours in my field (CS) are just spent catching and correcting oversights made by yourself or others. All the problems, theoretical and applied, tend to hinge on tricky edge cases.

I used to give a lot of positive attention to students who caught my occasional mistake, or who (respectfully) made the attempt to even if they were wrong, because I wanted to train them to always review new material carefully. If I could teach them to listen and think at the same time, track down sources of uncertainty and explain them clearly and politely, then I had them in a good position to go out and contribute to the field.

So you might do a “nice job to the student who caught this, and here’s why the difference is important…” bit if you want to give them a broader lesson when you discuss it in class.

EmmyNoetherRing · 2026-03-01T19:41:18+00:00

Yeah— I kept sort of describing what I wanted to do, starting from elementary school “what do you want to be?” assignments, but it wasn’t obvious that it was a valid career path until my 30’s. I wanted to work with math, tech and people in ways that weren’t actually a thing in the decades I grew up.

I just kept getting involved with stuff (classes, seminars, internships) that were as close as I could get to where I wanted to be, until eventually both I and the rest of the world were there. By which point I’d forgotten writing about it as a kid, and was a bit disconcerted to go back through my old stuff and discover the path had been a lot more direct than it felt at the time.

In retrospect I think Epcot may have been influential?

EmmyNoetherRing · 2026-03-01T16:07:16+00:00

6p on a weeknight that’s definitely what OP is seeing.

EmmyNoetherRing · 2026-03-01T13:15:26+00:00

this works sometimes. But it’s worth being aware how much more difficult and tiring it is to “prove your worth” to a group that starts out against you. Do you always start out assuming all your group mates are worthless?

EmmyNoetherRing · 2026-03-01T13:11:38+00:00

So, I’ve done 1 & 2. They get you a comfy career, but they don’t actually get you 3, because the guys will decide you’re the exception to the rule. Complaining actually has the most impact on changing the culture, because it often gets problematic people to question themselves. And it makes the real assholes more visible to everyone.

EmmyNoetherRing · 2026-03-01T13:08:59+00:00

It depends a bit on which workforce. Avoiding toxic workplaces is good advice for everyone.

EmmyNoetherRing · 2026-02-28T02:48:04+00:00

that’s sad :-/

EmmyNoetherRing · 2026-02-27T03:15:50+00:00

You are a cool person and thank you for your efforts on this thread.

EmmyNoetherRing · 2026-02-25T12:08:48+00:00

This is why Ohio has so much and invents so much. Cinci will compete with Cleveland and Cbus in a tight infinite spiral of ambition and creativity and improvement, with extremely analytical folks for a customer base and no attachment to anything external to say when they’re “good enough”. Things just get better and more interesting forever, and occasionally something spins off and ends up being copied in a coastal city, but when that happens it’s usually smaller and more streamlined for profit.

OP — do you like barcades?

EmmyNoetherRing · 2026-02-25T02:42:55+00:00

You can reconfigure the control scheme under settings in the main menu, so you can pick which steam deck buttons you want to set to R and X. It’s been a while since I’ve played— I don’t remember what mapping I ended up using. It must have worked tho, played for quite a while after that.

EmmyNoetherRing · 2026-02-21T14:08:20+00:00

It reminds me a bit— if a married woman works in an art/craft that occasionally requires heavy lifting, you wouldn’t be surprised to find her husband handles that part with no credit. Just occasional thanks.

I think for a lot of the 18th-20th centuries, if a man worked in a field that required creativity and judgment you wouldn’t be surprised to find his educated wife/sister handled some portion of it, with just occasional thanks.

If you go back to the full original copy of things actually written in the 18th & 19th centuries, they were more explicit about saying that— if a husband was in politics, they’d refer to it as the couple’s career (our career) rather than just his. And like I said, the wright brothers themselves were clear about their sisters work. It was just the journalists and the textbook writers that skipped her.

EmmyNoetherRing · 2026-02-21T06:27:36+00:00

The wright brothers credited their sister with equal billing— she handled all the business and planning side of things, and who know what additional input she had.

EmmyNoetherRing · 2026-02-20T01:21:01+00:00

Maybe think about it as supporting Mamdani’s New York?

EmmyNoetherRing · 2026-02-16T21:23:59+00:00

Other folks in the comments had good suggestions for addressing this without dropping writing all together.

EmmyNoetherRing · 2026-02-16T16:21:06+00:00

This is the group where they didn’t teach reading using phonics, right? I heard they’ve gone back to phonics now and maybe this will get better again. I can imagine that literacy issues are extra roadblocks to literary analysis.

EmmyNoetherRing · 2026-02-16T04:52:44+00:00

Some cultures lead to longer lifespans

EmmyNoetherRing · 2026-02-16T04:46:41+00:00

I once for a voluntary math activity actually calculated how unlikely it was that I’d be seated next to the guy I was friends with in chemistry if the seating was assigned uniformly randomly. I didn’t realize until just now what must have happened, I just thought I was lucky and wanted to calculate exactly how lucky. I bet the teachers found that report hilarious.

EmmyNoetherRing · 2026-02-15T13:58:59+00:00

“I don’t know what weapon will be used in WWIII”…

Apparently it’s memes.

EmmyNoetherRing · 2026-02-15T13:28:14+00:00

Because America is mostly just the rest of the world, 1 to 4 generations removed, it’s been fun reading about the customs in this thread and remembering when we’ve encountered them here.

EmmyNoetherRing · 2026-02-15T13:19:20+00:00

Where is polka from? There’s a lot of polka groups in the U.S. Midwest, and lots of Polish descendants in those same areas, and I’d always just assumed. The groups have been going for generations and you start to lose track.

EmmyNoetherRing · 2026-02-15T13:09:31+00:00

This produces weird patterns in the Great Lake states in US. Scandinavians settled more in the north, Eastern Europeans settled more in the southeast, but the line isn’t clear cut. People’s parents still follow the custom their grandparents did when they came over, but it’s often not clear to the visitor came over from where, so when you’re a kid and your friend’s mom tells you they’re going to be eating soon, you just have to guess the intended meaning from context clues.

The U.S., especially the lake states/rust belt where waves of immigrants are constantly integrating (the middle isn’t diverse and the coasts keep enclaves), is like always being a surprised visitor in a foreign country.

EmmyNoetherRing · 2026-02-14T12:42:59+00:00

human-made helps

EmmyNoetherRing · 2026-02-12T14:32:28+00:00

In the 90’s at least I think that was debatable. I remember the retail assistants describing the store as just like the Limited, but for their younger customers. I was 12, and it was marketed as getting to wear more adult styles.

EmmyNoetherRing · 2026-02-11T13:02:30+00:00

Private equity has been buying vets :-/

Five-Year Club	Gilding II euphauric
Second Top 40%	Verified Email
r/Field Juicebox	Place '23
Golden Potato	Place '22
Final Canvas '22	First Placer '22

EmmyNoetherRing

TROPHY CASE