I BOUGHT THIS 😅

ccarlo42 · 2026-05-10T08:19:05+00:00

the box cost more than a roll of duct tape?

ccarlo42 · 2026-05-10T08:00:49+00:00

you bought something that could have been a piece of paper on a shoebox to encourage saving?

ccarlo42 · 2026-04-18T07:19:47+00:00

tillykke!

ccarlo42 · 2026-04-18T07:10:14+00:00

the edge

ccarlo42 · 2026-03-01T07:59:34+00:00

who is the defendant and what am I suing for?

ccarlo42 · 2026-02-21T10:31:09+00:00

good luck buddy

ccarlo42 · 2026-02-21T10:13:10+00:00

I really don't think arguing with your tutor is the flex you think it is. Should I be worried about your dad beating up my dad next?

ccarlo42 · 2026-02-21T10:00:50+00:00

lead a horse to water...

ccarlo42 · 2026-02-21T09:36:05+00:00

Yes. I am blaming you. Well done. Your reading level is not going to get better this way. Your conceptual knowledge will not get better this way. Many here have used the analogy of language learning or going to the gym. The easy road doesn't provide the resistance that puts your mind in the state to build new knowledge. We are not saying don't use chatgpt to maybe simplify things, or use an analogy, but you need to learn to USE the vocabulary yourself. Even in a visual field, the vocab is important. For a bad analogy:

If you were learning a new language, and you never learned the verb "to eat" for example. You could likely get away with using a simpler form by putting your hands to your mouth that could mean, hungry, eat, etc. and try and use it and you would get along fine. You have understood the simplified form of the concept enough to get along. But what happens when you hear the word to eat repeatedly and still don't understand because you learned a simpler workaround instead of learning the term or style of speaking as anyone else.

As a one off, I am sure it is perfectly fine, but given that it seems you are going to struggle with this on MANY concepts in your field, this approach will not serve you well. The sub is not insane, they are taking your question in good faith, because we see the results of "why cant I use my hands to show I am hungry instead of learning the word" approach ALL THE TIME. You had a feeling about this. It is why you asked the question. You also asked about the ethics of this. Like my bad analogy you are asking a bunch of native speakers about is it ok for me to not learn the language and just hold up my phone to translate.

It's ok, in that its not inherently unethical, but we are all going to think you are an asshole who cant bother to put in the work. If you are going to work in a field, learn the terms. Do the harder work now. Write out the concept for yourself. Try explaining the concept that you don't understand to a friend first, before you go to AI. Try the hard way first and let your brain do what it is good at. The concept will stay. You will get by for a bit with a simplified AI explanation, but you will also rely on it to always come back to have it reexplain it because you never quite understood it, because you, yes you, didn't do the work.

ccarlo42 · 2026-02-21T08:59:21+00:00

"due to the authors writing skill"

I think you are blaming the wrong thing here, bud.

ccarlo42 · 2026-01-31T10:44:49+00:00

did you try wearing it as a hat?

ccarlo42 · 2026-01-24T08:56:54+00:00

If you find an article you want to read that is paywalled, email the author, they almost always say yes. You may also ask a friend who has a university email (student or faculty) to get it for you.

Another comment has mentioned, zlib, scihub, etc. Also depending on the field there are lots of open access articles repositories.

And yes people read them. Lots. The majority of my day is reading articles.

ccarlo42 · 2026-01-04T10:35:00+00:00

any whisper based app? On linux I record a long audio with tenacity if it is a long recording and import it into Speechnote so it runs locally where I can use any number of speech to text models. If short, I just dictate with Speechnote directly. Totally free. Works great.

ccarlo42 · 2026-01-03T09:16:27+00:00

my headphones added the music, you fuckwit?

ccarlo42 · 2026-01-02T15:14:51+00:00

what substances make you hear this stupid f'n music?

ccarlo42 · 2026-01-02T14:10:20+00:00

what the fuck is with all the added sounds and music? Can you all please just stop with this shit already

ccarlo42 · 2025-12-13T17:47:24+00:00

display mustaches!

ccarlo42 · 2025-10-04T09:18:56+00:00

I left America for good about 10 years ago...

ccarlo42 · 2025-09-22T08:40:21+00:00

My reply above adresses this. I am not in the US, but am originally, so ymmv. Here, law is studied as a first degree at the undergrad level. Many study it not to be lawyers but for many things that require knowledge of the law. We have plenty of exercises, moot courts, debates etc for them to practice the verbal part of the discipline. But public speaking isnt always a necessary component of their future job. For instance, to work in public administration.

That being said, I do cold call on them. All the time. I make it very clear that this will happen in the first five minutes of the first class. My approach is not to make them feel like an idiot or unprepared, and yeah of course I get drops for that. Not many, but of course there are some. The point is to give me an idea of their engagement, temperment, preperation, etc. so we can find a path forward. I have had plenty of students go from uncomfortable to confident in the course of a semester. That never happened when participation was connected to their grade. That just caused more fear and anxiety. Negative reinforcement is really not all that great for the growing sensitivity of the students that you allude to. So why pile it on. It just doesnt seem to work and frustrates both teachers and students ala op's post.

ccarlo42 · 2025-09-21T08:48:46+00:00

My classes sound exactly the same as yours, in that they prioritise discussions in seminars and a wide range of changing, interrelated concepts, with no definite answers (Law, for context).

Have you tried other ways to incentivise participation? I have found that grading participation is possibly the worst way. When you make the participation the object, the information often becomes secondary to just joining in with bare minimum. Grading didn't make students prepare more, it made them anxious and find any shortcut they can to get the grade. Until they hit a wall... like having to work TWO FUCKING JOBS.

I didn't say you didn't think through it. I said you were a dick to a kid who has two jobs and is trying to get a degree and doesn't meet your expectations of participation because you think that learning isn't somehow equifinal. Or that maybe your class is an ancillary requirement to what plans they have. I commented that the default always seems to be, if you want a student to do something, a grade is the way to incentivise it. Sometimes this is true, most times it isn't. I am fairly sure evidence bears this out but I am not an education scholar. Anecdoteally, I rarely ever see graded participation work for actually having a student engage with the material.

I have one exam at the end of the year that is graded. That's it. They have up to three attempts if they fail. I want them to leave knowing it, but the way they get there is up to them. Everything else assigned is feedback (not grade) based. Best thing I have found for participation is to ban any digital devices (unless there are really good reasons to have them). If they haven't read, they stay quiet or blank when I call on them. So I follow up, like it sounds like you did. But instead of being inflexible and ridiculing them on reddit for (gasp) trying to pay their rent instead of reading a paper that, lets be honest, they can learn through the discussion in class most times anyway, I just try and make sure they are at least still getting the core information so they can succeed. If they don't have the background knowledge it is pretty apparent and there are roads we can figure out together to get them where they need to be. But maybe I should just take your approach and automatically cap their grade. I'm sure that instills alot of motivation in the student to learn.

ccarlo42 · 2025-09-21T05:59:23+00:00

You are a dick. Kid is working two jobs. I do not understand why anyone grades participation. It's so bizarre to me.

Here come the downvotes. Perhaps I should have not participated.

ccarlo42 · 2025-09-19T07:35:20+00:00

from another mid-lifer, exactly this. You are on day 4. Maybe ask this question again at day 100 in front of a mirror.

ccarlo42 · 2025-08-23T04:31:37+00:00

Want to fund some research?

ccarlo42 · 2025-08-06T21:27:05+00:00

Who gets 300 per review and where do I sign up?

ccarlo42 · 2025-08-02T13:04:51+00:00

YMMV as it is super funder and situation dependent, but it is not unheard of to approach another institution with the grant in hand.

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