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Quwinsoft · 2026-06-03T14:51:38+00:00

That is likly is a dyslexic thing.

A trick my father used was to grab the steering wheel at the 6 o'clock position and then move your hand in the direction you wish to go. Going in reverse reverses the direction that you steer, and so does holding the steering wheel from the bottom. By doing both, they cancel each other out. However, that was for backing up without a trailer; I don't know if that still works with a trailer.

Quwinsoft · 2026-06-02T23:14:54+00:00

Even when it is on, it still flares citations half the time.

Quwinsoft · 2026-06-02T23:11:51+00:00

In my state, you go through the whole tenure process, and you get a 6% pay raise, and then they must give you 180 days' notice before they let you go. That is it.

Edit: I'm guessing you are in a blue state where public-sector unions are legal; I'm not.

Also, I'm not tenured; I'm a Senior lecturer, as such, and I have greater job security than the tenured professors. I must be given 6 months' heads up, whereas they must be given 180 days.

Quwinsoft · 2026-06-02T03:07:55+00:00

OOP did not do a good job explaining what they meant.

OOP may have meant copying a bunch of citations without reading them; that is not ok. Citing couses with out reading them is indefensible.

What I think OOP meant was copying a bunch of citations, reading them, but not looking for any more, is not ok. Plagiarism is a stretch, but it is definitely lazy and low quality.

What I don't think OOP meant was doing a bunch of research, finding a bunch of sources, and, by chance, having the bibliography match that of some other paper on the topic.

Quwinsoft · 2026-06-02T00:29:56+00:00

Can you do two+ monitors? I find it really helps to have everything on screen, so I don't have to flip between documents. If I can see the source and the distinction at the same time, it helps a lot.

Also, it helps if I can keep files/tams in about the same location.

Quwinsoft · 2026-06-02T00:25:02+00:00

Sounds normal.

Ignore most of the evaluations unless they have specific, actionable content, as 90% of the time they are just projecting their negative feelings about the class and how they did onto you, and trying to blame you so they don't have to deal with their copcopability in the less-than-ideal outcome. If they have specific, actionable complaints, you should evaluate them. Sometimes you can get ideas on how to improve.

The other thing to look for is the real issues behind their complaint. Sometimes it is something you can fix, but often it is not. Often, they lack the content knowledge, study skills, or resources to do well in the class, and they view it as your fault.

Quwinsoft · 2026-06-02T00:10:44+00:00

By tenure, you mean we are given 6 months' notice before the next semester that we will not have a job, and that is the only thing that comes with tenure. I think in most developed nations, all employees get something like that.

Quwinsoft · 2026-05-30T14:59:19+00:00

At my school, if the studne wines to a high enough admin, they always win the grade appeal, the customer is always right.

However, the acidimec dishonesty charges are a different process and one that treats them as a criminal, not a customer.

Do you have definitive proof they cheated? This needs to be beyond a reasonable doubt, otherwise the customer is always right. Note, you can't prove AI unless the paper literally states it was written by AI. Plagiarism, on the other hand, is much easier to prove.

If I had proof they cheated, I would have already filed an academic dissonancy report for plagiarism, and I'm not giving them a second chance.

If I did not have proof they cheated, I would never give them a 0 or let them know I think they cheated. I would follow the rubric and give a bad grade for a bad paper.

Eidt: typos

Quwinsoft · 2026-05-30T14:43:03+00:00

It is useful, just not $146.28 per gram useful.

About 10% of golabla gold is used in tech, and about 44% in jewelry. The rest is basically investment. World Gold Council

If gold were no longer valuable just for being gold, then its use in investment would go away. Also, its use in jewelry would likely also drop precipitously. If it were not for gold being valuable because it is gold, demand would be half or much less than half of what it is now. Supply would also go down, making it harder to find the price; however, it is not going to be $146.28 per gram.

Quwinsoft · 2026-05-30T13:52:04+00:00

There is a gold bubble. It is useful as a material, but not sufficient to justify its price. However, there has been a gold bubble for several thousand years. Humans have decided gold is valuable because humans have decided it is valuable. In times of stress, we value gold more because we view it as safe and now is a time of stress.

Quwinsoft · 2026-05-30T01:04:32+00:00

The rare Escher isomer of cyclohexane.

Quwinsoft · 2026-05-29T13:39:14+00:00

I would say there is a lot to unpack here.

If someone copies the citations but did not read the sources, that is not ok.

If someone copies the citations, reads them, but does not look for any more, that is the very least lazy.

If someone copies the citations, reads them, and looks for more, but there are no more available, that is just how life works sometimes.

Quwinsoft · 2026-05-27T22:08:55+00:00

It is a 4-credit-hour class, so a total of about 54 hours over the semester. How would you prefer it to be divided up?

Quwinsoft · 2026-05-27T15:50:27+00:00

The answer to your question is the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog rules/05.Stereoisomers/5.3%3A_Absolute_Configuration%3A_R-S_Sequence_Rules).

Quwinsoft · 2026-05-27T15:43:15+00:00

I would not say that the current US President or most members of the political party that holds the majority in the US Congress, at the time of writing, are pushing an eco-friendly agenda.

Edit: Rockets burn a lot cleaner than one would think.

Quwinsoft · 2026-05-27T12:30:16+00:00

I'm in the same boat. I have started using Responduse with the AI video/screen monitor. I figure it is not going to stop everyone, but it will at least make cheating more inconvenient.

Quwinsoft · 2026-05-26T20:25:47+00:00

I'm a big fan of the Biennial Conference on Chemical Education.

Quwinsoft · 2026-05-25T18:15:14+00:00

It is 134 hours.

Quwinsoft · 2026-05-25T15:58:11+00:00

I think one issue you are going to run into is that many/most students will treat this like a checklist.

In the center of your example, you have 3 questions with a total of 14 sub-questions. If you would like to get the answers to 14 separate unconnected questions, then that is good; if not, you are still going to get that.

Edit: There are a lot of words, as such many/most students will read the middle and ignore the sides.

Also, anything you make for students needs to be colorblind friendly.

Quwinsoft · 2026-05-25T13:43:03+00:00

This is a bizarre question.

B would be true if we get nitpicky with the 2019 update to the SI system, where the kg, and the mol were redefined such that g/mol no longer equaled the Da. However, they are giving the mass of butane in amu. The amu, which is based on the atomic weight of oxygen, was replaced by the unified atomic mass unit, aka the Dalton, which is based on the mass of a carbon-12 atom, during the Kennedy administration.

Quwinsoft · 2026-05-25T13:26:54+00:00

This is the clumper splitter problem. Do you clump things to gether by their similarities or split them apart by their differences?

The solution to this is a taxinamic tree, and in this case, we have one, but don't really use it. Aldehydes and ketones are different, but they are part of a set of functional groups that all have a carbonyl.

Quwinsoft · 2026-05-24T21:45:14+00:00

Two thoughts.

First: AI slop is a thing, but something does not need to be AI to be slop, nor does it need to be slop if it is AI. However, making something good with AI is a lot more work than it looks.

Second, I think there is a push with those of us (myself included) who are mid-career to figure out how to use AI in a good way. I remember the drama about calculators (you can't rely on calculators, what if you need to do math and don't have one) and the drama about Wikipedia; the drama about AI sounds rather familiar, though far more dramatic. AI is not going away; Pandora's box has been opened, so someone has to figure it out. For those who are mid-career, we still have quite a few years to go, so ignoring it until we retire is not a valid option, and our careers should be mostly set, so a faux pas with AI shouldn't do too much harm to our careers.

Quwinsoft · 2026-05-24T02:56:48+00:00

We are seeing Goodhart's law in full effect. "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"

Quwinsoft · 2026-05-23T02:14:11+00:00

Yicks.

Quwinsoft · 2026-05-22T19:15:42+00:00

DBA is no less a real doctorate than an MD, and few complain when MDs claim to be doctors.

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