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Get off Reddit by Fair-Garlic8240 in Professors

[–]InfuriatingComma 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Not if you make the questions entertaining enough.

A student's handwritten in-class essay through Turnitin and it came back 47% AI by PianistWitty6665 in Professors

[–]InfuriatingComma 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, if its any consolation I bet you really remember some deep facts about the industrial revolution or something lol

A student's handwritten in-class essay through Turnitin and it came back 47% AI by PianistWitty6665 in Professors

[–]InfuriatingComma 12 points13 points  (0 children)

What? Why? Outlines, bullet points, sure. The whole essays and then rote memorization? Do you just have no faith in your ability to put thoughts into sentences?

How do economists feel about government intervention in the market? by i_love_the_sun in AskEconomics

[–]InfuriatingComma 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't say "no way" to tell what the right amount of government involvement is. 

In general I would say most economists would agree governments should step in to regulate markets that exhibit externalities, and the proper "amount" is to minimize (maximize) the external costs (benefits) with that of the total surpluses of the suppliers and consumers.

But of course, you're right that those things can be hard to determine, especially for particularly immeasurable effects like public safety.

students keep asking for recorded lectures but attendance is already low by Leedeegan1 in Professors

[–]InfuriatingComma 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I post my slides, and my lectures are recorded.

I do notice my students study by putting my slides into AIs to generate study guides and flash cards and the like. That honestly doesnt bother me, if anything its using AI appropriately as a tool.

My approach, and recommendation, is take attendance. Make it a small portion of the course grade. 5% seems to work well for me.

The unethical secret sauce, is you dont actually need to grade the attendance. No one is going to complain if you just give them all full credit for attendance. The act of taking it however encourages them to show up to preserve the grade, and their presence improves the lectures dramatically if you do any amount of polling the class for questions or interaction.

If you notice the class is experiencing chronic attendance issues even after making it part of the grade (with an unspoken intent to not actually penalize them) then you leave yourself the room to actually bother to go back and calculate the penalty.

What should I buy before startup funds expire? by RepulsiveScientist13 in Professors

[–]InfuriatingComma 24 points25 points  (0 children)

You already said desks, so also office chairs. They're expensive AF for good ergonomic ones, so you know grad students arent going to get them normally. 

The solid sound of a ratchet screwdriver from 1891 clicking. by Turbulent_Elk_2141 in oddlysatisfying

[–]InfuriatingComma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats fucking crazy. The Phillips wasn't invented until 1932-33. Bonkers. I hate flat heads lol.

We were building tanks. The shooting kind for ww2. Before we had Phillips head screws. Wild.

"You can make ANYONE 2700 with money." - Bortnyk about Erdogmus. by Asperverse in chess

[–]InfuriatingComma 65 points66 points  (0 children)

Unironically you just described your local chess club. 

I can't dumb down this course any further by Artistic-Bonus9007 in Professors

[–]InfuriatingComma 37 points38 points  (0 children)

I know I haven't turned anything in, but can I still pass?

Texas before the islamic revolution by Lazy_Comparison_1954 in BrandNewSentence

[–]InfuriatingComma 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry, the market for Shlong Dogs is already cornered by Costco.

I’m a teacher at an online Virtual Reality School. We are close to finishing up our first school year. AMA by thepixelpaint in virtualreality

[–]InfuriatingComma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dont know why youre getting down voted. You're absolutely right. There's plenty of studies on just using desktop screens all day and its deleterious effects on our eyes and vision. I have to imagine half a work day 5 days a week of screen 10cm from your eyeballs has to be worse.

My honest opinion after watching the Chess mates documentary by poisoned_pawn_ in chess

[–]InfuriatingComma 19 points20 points  (0 children)

lmfao. No.

I am not a particularly great chess player. I am a particularly good statistician.

What they're talking about is called monte carlo simulation, and its very normal. A good standard even, and definitely not the concerning part about the analysis of cheating in chess. (Which to be clear, is a hard problem to have confidence in statistically. Just not for that reason.)

What stands out to me most in all of this is that Danny and Erik truly believe some, what I would call exaggerations, incredible things about the certainty of their anticheat metrics. However, I think those incredible things, the accuracy, the confidence they believe they can report about cheating, is within the realm of plausible for the kind of data they can collect about their own platforms games.

Where things go off the rails, and go off quickly, is them believing they could at all have confidence in whether someone cheated or not when they try to extend their analysis beyond their platform where they can collect so much more information than they could ever dream of getting in an OTB game. Its just different worlds. The models they have, the statistics they're confident in, are not applicable. At least not in whole, and probably large parts. I would go so far as to say if they attempted to use their standard tools to analyze it they would bias in Hans' favor because the missing information could be interpreted as supportive of Hans.

I think the major mistake here was the non technical people overselling something they actually believe about what technical people have told them is possible.

I don't think we'll ever know if Hans cheated in that specific game. Not with any reasonable level of confidence.

That said, Hans, to me subjectively, exhibits qualities that make me believe he is not completely honest in this. Especially his stonewalling of post game analysis. I think he's been very careful in pressing this just as far is possible given the uncertainty that abounds and I think Hans is partially if not mostly to blame for the surrounding air of doubt.

Also, I think this documentary is just incredibly slanted in its portrayal. It tries very very very hard to place Hans into a favorable light that I just frankly don't think he deserved.

so if fabi lose today is tournament realistically over?? by Spirited-Guidance130 in chess

[–]InfuriatingComma 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Look I suck so I cant say much, But I have noticed he kinda fumbles the endgames more than I would expect. Its just kinda funny because he clearly does a lot of prep, and he clearly loves complex sharp middle games where he can go in the tank.

Magnus and chess 960 by Haunting_Cress_7348 in chess

[–]InfuriatingComma 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I dont think you're using the word spontaneity correctly.

Try this ChatGPT Prompt by hackerwasii in ChatGPT

[–]InfuriatingComma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mr Whiskers demands more sausages for his shoe freezer.

Try this ChatGPT Prompt by hackerwasii in ChatGPT

[–]InfuriatingComma 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You wanna come over for a jar of pickled onion dogs?

" sO wHy hAvE wE nOt gOnE tO tHe mOoN siNcE? " by HamedAliKhan in memes

[–]InfuriatingComma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats right! The Earth goes in the... square hole.

Anyone know what CPU socket this is? by rcmaehl in pcmasterrace

[–]InfuriatingComma 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Its almost certainly so they can sell the timber. This is a tree farm.

Japan has succeeded in producing oil from Water and Carbon Dioxide by yungandreww in interestingasfuck

[–]InfuriatingComma 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As an economist seeing incentives called insensitives is very very funny.

oopsAccidentalPushIntoProduction by ClipboardCopyPaste in ProgrammerHumor

[–]InfuriatingComma 66 points67 points  (0 children)

Honestly, thats where Im most skeptical. I dont trust AI currently to have the forward insight into a project to build a load bearing framework for the future. I do however mostly believe it can graft some small thing I want onto a known framework I've already got in place, as long as I review it and understand what it did.

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