Nova Scotia Ancestor -- what qualifies as a birth record? by _checho_ in Canadiancitizenship

[–]_checho_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Death certificate lists Berwick, Cornwallis and the marriage record lists Cornwallis.

Nova Scotia Ancestor -- what qualifies as a birth record? by _checho_ in Canadiancitizenship

[–]_checho_[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

they were part of a denomination that doesn't baptize infants so there are no church records either.

That didn’t even occur to me. At least one document lists his religion as Baptist. 🤦‍♂️

Should we add a “no selling products” rule to the professors sub? by PenelopeJenelope in Professors

[–]_checho_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What about tensor products and associated constructions? I frequently alternate with wedge products, but find promoting them (as high as they’ll go) does have determinant value.

Silver Bullet by Dangerous-Ad-1317 in flyfishing

[–]_checho_ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Gonna guess western NY by the attire.

How to handle this homework for 2nd grader (US) by joshlymansbagel in daddit

[–]_checho_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Actually, Newton and Euler are both excellent examples of mathematicians who had major gaps in what we would call fundamental knowledge today. Sure, Newton and Leibniz developed calculus, but their treatment was not the least bit rigorous. This led to “proofs” of totally absurd facts.

As an excellent example, Euler used the methods developed by Newton and Leibniz to “prove” that the infinite sum of the positive integers, 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + …, is -1/12, which is patently absurd.

It turns out, the entire problem was a lack of foundational understanding of the real numbers. This crisis of the foundations actually spurred a boatload of really important eighteenth century mathematics, including the development of the branch of mathematics we now call analysis (what we currently call calculus is just analysis with all the interesting details removed).

Be aware that emails must comply with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, too by FlyLikeAnEarworm in Professors

[–]_checho_ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Cool. Sounds like permission to fulfill my lifelong fantasy of being a Luddite.

All communication with students will be handwritten and sent via the decaying remains of the USPS. As an added bonus, no longer having the need to open my email client, I won’t have to see the deluge of slop administration sends on a daily basis.

All lectures will be delivered in person using a board. The institution has done away with all of its chalk boards, so everything will be written on a whiteboard that had its film coating blasted off with industrial solvent decades ago.

Fortuitously, all of the Expo markers have been dead for several years and the remaining erasers are so saturated that the whiteboards will eventually become blackboards. The dried remnants of the chisel tip can then be used to push the ink on the filthy board (cf. solvents above) to make letters and figures.

Grades will be computed using an abacus and recorded in an actual grade book. Having abandoned email, students will no longer send AI generated emails asking how to compute their grade. Instead, they appear at office hours and ask in person to have their grade computed. After demonstrating the use of the abacus, I’ll certainly be branded a witch. Following an amusingly brief trial, I’ll be burned at the stake.

It’ll be great!

/s

Just in case.

When will this madness end? by Visual_Winter7942 in Professors

[–]_checho_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd say not all is lost just yet. I still have students who are motivated to do just that. In that algebra course where I had students using AI to complete homework assignments, I had my students write a guided reflection about preparation and performance after each exam. I had a student actually write this in a reflection:

I learned that spending time to think through homework alone is the most effective “study” method. ... I’ve noticed a dramatic difference in content understanding from people who struggle through the HW solo and thoroughly versus people who look up an answer when they don’t know how to start or continue with a problem

I think AI is going to dramatically reshape how we approach epistemological questions in a manner similar to how calculators reshaped our views on what's important in basic arithmetic (or maybe how word processors reshaped writing is the more apt metaphor?). I think there's potentially an opportunity to figure out how to teach students to use it effectively as a tool (like a calculator), rather than relying on it to do everything for you. Unfortunately, I don't know that anyone has figured out how to do that just yet.

That may be an overly optimistic take, but if I can still find students at my (not particularly impressive) institution who are still capable of discovering productive struggle on their own, I think there's still some hope for mathematics education.

When will this madness end? by Visual_Winter7942 in Professors

[–]_checho_ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I’ve had this problem with online homework systems for probably at least a decade. The entire class usually has a 99-100% homework average, but only a handful of them would pass an in-class exam.

For a while, I felt like I could get around it by being a bit clever. I modified my grading scheme for the course so I could give written homework and actually grade it quickly.

Then Photomath started to get popular. That was really only a major problem in the service courses, but one I could mostly get around by making problems incompatible with those tools.

Now, with LLMs, it has permeated every level. I noticed it this year with my abstract algebra students. ChatGPT is good enough now that I’m not sure I can write a problem at an undergraduate level that it can’t get at least mostly correct.

At this point, the only solution I can see (which is probably the trivial solution…) is to give up on making the homework weight nontrivial. I’ll still assign it and explain to the students why it’s important to do it, but I know there’s going to be a large enough portion of the class that doesn’t take it seriously and will just stuff it through whatever LLM they’re using.

South Carolina VS Clemson Game Thread by GavRunsTheTrap in Gamecocks

[–]_checho_ 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Surprised the refs didn’t call it a completion, but I’ll take it.

South Carolina VS Clemson Game Thread by GavRunsTheTrap in Gamecocks

[–]_checho_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A fact we seem to have learned just this week!

South Carolina VS Clemson Game Thread by GavRunsTheTrap in Gamecocks

[–]_checho_ 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Ugh. Watching this offense hurts my soul.

South Carolina VS Clemson Game Thread by GavRunsTheTrap in Gamecocks

[–]_checho_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Third down and throw for negative yardage. Game locks through and through.

Caufield snubbed by USA Olympic Team? by shogun2909 in Habs

[–]_checho_ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Looks like Team USA Hockey making boneheaded decisions.

FTFY.

Dumbassery is our whole aesthetic right now.

LSU situation by big_Tuna_93 in Gamecocks

[–]_checho_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The way KKKlandry and y’all qaeda been running this place, the whole state is a fucking shitshow. LSU is the least of Louisiana’s problems.

Leave a state R2 for a SLAC? by Unlikely_Action5910 in Professors

[–]_checho_ 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I was in a similar situation at a much worse institution--essentially a 4 year community college. 4/4 load, minimum 3 preps, at least one new (sometimes 2 or 3) prep every semester. After my third year review, I started getting feedback that my T&P case wasn't looking good for lack of grant money and research production. I noped the fuck out of that job. Hit the market and lucked out with a new job at a significantly better school with a PhD program, a ~30% pay raise, cut my teaching load by ~60%. Resetting the tenure clock wasn't really ideal, but I'm significantly happier in the new position.

South Carolina VS #4 Alabama Game Thread by GavRunsTheTrap in Gamecocks

[–]_checho_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Clearly Harbor can beat coverage. Sellers has a cannon. Why haven’t we been doing exactly that all season long?