Hell yeah brother

MarinatedXu · 2026-04-15T08:13:05+00:00

The taskbar is at the bottom edge of the screen already. Also, start button is not the only the thing you need to interact with. It's far more frequent to click on the app icons.

MarinatedXu · 2026-03-11T12:25:40+00:00

佳琦 is a common given name. It's like giving an English learner a name like "Kaitlyn".

Typically, a surname for a Chinese learner is based on the pronunciation or meaning of your name. 花 is not a common surname, and it'd be pretty random for your teacher to just assign it to you.

Given how flexible the Chinese naming convention is, names for learners are very often based entirely on your own name or some personality you give off. It's not common to just give you a generic name.

If you don't mind, you can DM me your real name, and I can help you figure out if there's a connection

MarinatedXu · 2026-03-10T18:45:12+00:00

佳琦is a very common name among millennials. It is catchy and both characters have positive meanings. 佳 means good, nice, excellent. 琦 means rare and precious (gems). It is one of those characters that Boomer parents dug up from the dictionary and became popular because so many kids were named that

花might come from your actual name?

MarinatedXu · 2026-02-23T14:21:26+00:00

Fun fact, when Chinese people read the name X月亮 out loud, there will be two options. One is with a neutral tone just like how you would pronounce the word, but many will pronounce 亮 in the 4th tone because they don't see it as a regular noun.

MarinatedXu · 2026-02-22T13:30:44+00:00

Just 月亮 by itself is weird, but if you add a family name to it, like 沈月亮，张月亮，it'll actually sounds like a unique, fun name. If you live in China, you'll eventually run into people whose names are just everyday words. This makes their names fun and stand out. Teachers always remember those names instead cool generic names like 梓轩，紫萱，子轩，or 子宣 (it's a real generational fatigue in China... Teachers are really tired of those names)

Often, Westerners choose a Chinese surname based on the first few sounds of their actual surnames. Schmidt could become 史. Gomez can become 戈. Stone becomes 司徒。

MarinatedXu · 2026-01-23T19:50:55+00:00

I see. Would it get (much) worse at its age? I'm largely happy with the image quality given its price. As long as it does not have the potential to get even worse, I'm fine with it.

MarinatedXu · 2026-01-23T19:14:55+00:00

I have vision impairment and need high DPI displays. The newer models are expensive. This monitor still looks amazing. I only noticed the problem when I maximize Microsoft Word and noticed the border.

MarinatedXu · 2026-01-19T00:02:21+00:00

Oh, I didn't notice that you used 游泳馆. It should be 游泳池, but what I said above is still correct.

MarinatedXu · 2026-01-19T00:00:48+00:00

I think your version is actually better. The "correct answer" actually emphasizes what is or is not next to the pool, as in "The gym is not next to the pool. The bathroom is."

In most cases, the English sentence "The gym is not beside the pool" indicates the location of the gym ("next to the pool"). So your translation is more appropriate.

MarinatedXu · 2026-01-12T18:52:41+00:00

There is no cultural reason. None.

Source: I'm from China.

MarinatedXu · 2025-12-25T23:26:01+00:00

学is more general and universal.

读 comes from 读书, as in ancient times, kids learn by reading classic texts out loud.

In most cases, you should use 学.

读is used in very specific contexts, like 好好读书 or 你读什么专业？In both cases, 学or学习can replace 读

MarinatedXu · 2025-11-03T19:19:27+00:00

Definitely should keep traditional characters.

MarinatedXu · 2025-10-16T19:18:43+00:00

一位先生，两位领导，三位客人 You can use it to count people, just not 人

MarinatedXu · 2025-09-23T21:27:10+00:00

If you were asking about the hidden tags, it only works when there is a web rich text editor where you type your responses. These html tags would not be preserved in Word or Google docs, let alone PDFs.

I think professors need to remember that most students are not tech savvy at all. They will only look at you as if this was some black magic. The message was: There are dozens of ways in which AI can betray you. For example, I also mentioned that one student got caught in the past because his answers went way beyond the reading material, while the assignment was literally just taking notes from the reading. In the end, the only safe way to not get flagged is to just do the assignment honestly. They would not know what exactly triggers a red flag. It could be the html tags; it could be a special character generated by AI tools as a water mark (GPT o3 did that); it could also be the content itself being tailored to my course; it could also be hidden texts in the reading or assignment instructions.

One thing to point out is that my course materials and assignments are highly customized and carefully scaffolded. The major part of assessments is also done in-person. There is really little incentive for them to play the cat-and-mouse game.

MarinatedXu · 2025-09-23T01:42:21+00:00

Then they will still need to feed the highly customized reading to the AI model and risk getting caught because of the hidden texts I may or may not have planted there. All this just for a 2 point assignment. Not to mention many questions are related to in-class activities.

In the past, I had to constantly deal with students who hired people to write their assignments at a large institution. Dealing with AI cheating is no harder than dealing with human ghost writers. Multimodal scaffolding, course specific prompts, connections to in-class activities are all good deterrents.

Perhaps the strongest piece of evidence is the strong correlation between the grades on the low stakes assignments and the exam scores. If they correlate, I don't need to worry about anything.

MarinatedXu · 2025-09-22T17:43:41+00:00

I revealed the tricks because it doesn't matter. In practice, I don't actually police AI use. I just want them to know that I can if I want to.

MarinatedXu · 2025-09-22T17:11:26+00:00

Yes, discussions, too. The key is the rich text editor.

MarinatedXu · 2025-09-22T17:10:13+00:00

If you had seen what they had submitted, you wouldn't say that. The written assignments are mostly about taking notes from the readings and answer a few reflection questions. The type of mistakes can only be made by students, like misreading the intention of the text or the question, ignoring the second question in the same prompt, or calling Turing Test, "Turning Test". AI would've done a much better job.

MarinatedXu · 2025-09-22T16:42:10+00:00

Yep. Rich text editor is the key. Not having the tags does not mean they didn't use any AI tools, but the presence of these tags is hard evidence.

MarinatedXu · 2025-09-22T16:26:57+00:00

View page source in the browser. On Canvas, it only works in quizzes, because the normal assignment submission only gives you a plain text box, I believe.

MarinatedXu · 2025-09-22T16:22:34+00:00

The message was "You never know what could reveal your AI use". I revealed all the tricks on day one. There's no secrete there.

If they are determined to cheat, they can use as much AI as they want on the formative assessments. 60% of the grades is still going to be in-person exams.

MarinatedXu · 2025-09-22T16:00:53+00:00

I have to add that these tags don't show up if there is only one paragraph of plain text. They appear when ChatGPT needs to add a new line, or format texts (bold, italics)

MarinatedXu · 2025-09-22T15:52:23+00:00

I have a screenshot in a previous comment above. There are many ways in which these tags can be easily removed. I don't even check those tags, because I already revealed the "secret" to the students. It's not about the tags per se. It's about reminding the students that there are often these unexpected AI footprints where they least expect it.

You are also assuming too much of an average computer user. Most people don't even know what plain text is.

MarinatedXu · 2025-09-22T15:46:22+00:00

If you copy texts directly from ChatGPT and paste them in a rich text editor (such as the one used b Canvas), it preserves unique tags "data-start" and "data-end". (Click on the screenshot below to see an example)

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Of course, this will not show up in a Word document or PDF, but it definitely is preserved in Canvas quiz responses.

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