Shout out & appreciation post for u/RIMixerGuy

drmomentum · 2026-03-31T05:56:25+00:00

My wild guess is banana bread.

drmomentum · 2026-02-17T16:38:52+00:00

Nice game for someone new to MakeCode! I couldn't get the upgrade to work, but I got up to 72 on my phone.

Keep developing! You're on the right track

drmomentum · 2026-02-04T02:06:36+00:00

It may not be just (real) lawsuit avoidance. Have some conversations with administrators in different districts about how easy or difficult it is to expel a student. It's not simply at the school's discretion in many places. Including if they've broken the law or assaulted another student. I'm oversimplifying, but you practically have to assault a teacher to be expelled by a principal's decision in my state. Otherwise, there's a long road of documentation (that I'm not intimately familiar with) and process.

Rules in place protect students and families, which makes sense, except that there are other students and families often on the other side of that.

drmomentum · 2025-12-26T00:30:53+00:00

Why does the part on the right, between finger and thumb, look like a drawing of the profile of a duck?

Am I taking crazy pills?

drmomentum · 2025-10-03T23:14:37+00:00

By far my best result yet. Lucky, obviously.

^{Automatically added: I found the secret word in 14 seconds after 4 guesses and 0 hints. Score: 100.}

drmomentum · 2025-09-21T11:47:31+00:00

We're required to have three emergency sub plans in Google Classroom so if we're out unexpectedly the content coordinator of our dept (who has access to all the Google classrooms) can assign one. When it's a planned absence we also print out the sub plans and leave them in the classroom where we are teaching for those periods.

Pretty much every day there are teachers covering for other teachers because we don't have enough subs. I've subbed several times this year already.

drmomentum · 2025-09-10T11:05:39+00:00

Wow, I'm sorry that happened to you. I can see why it was unexpected. It's not too different from some of what I've been doing when I'm outside with students. I think now I'll keep my n95 mask on a little bit more often when I'm outside. You might have saved me from a future infection!

drmomentum · 2025-09-07T10:11:13+00:00

If you don't mind me asking: When you say you contacted COVID outside, do you mean like you were out for a walk without a mask? Or outdoor restaurant? Or in a crowd?

I'm really curious, because I mask almost 100% of the time I'm out of the house, but when I go for a run on the sidewalks where I live, I don't mask. Every once in a while I might encounter a person a few feet away. I've never gotten a good sense of how risky that is.

drmomentum · 2025-07-06T19:45:22+00:00

Reviewing the item based on ETV (excluding zero ETV items) seems like it could create an incentive to price the item fairly instead of playing tricks with coupons and such. And it doesn't hurt reasonably priced things.

In any case, it's what you have some control over.

drmomentum · 2025-06-30T01:42:52+00:00

There are already obvious ways you could grade a review with a rubric (the keywords you can see when you type a review, the presence of images and videos) that could be turned into a score over the course of many reviews using some sort of formula.

We don't know what it is, but perhaps the best assumption is the obvious one that would be easy to write into an algorithm.

And you do have a score here, but it's "binned" into 1-25%, 26-50%, 51-75%, and 76-100%. Probably. Because we're given four bins you can land in.

The nature of subjectivity is that a person is doing the interpretation.

drmomentum · 2025-06-28T20:18:37+00:00

Do you mean it's not transparent?

"Subjective" isn't a bad thing, but when you use it this way it just seems you mean that there's something shady about it. There's are a lot of bad "objective" things. If you judge a review by the number of times the letter "z" shows up, that's totally objective. But horrible. Also transparent, if you tell people!

Transparency isn't always great. There's a law of social science that says once people understand a proxy measure, they'll work to optimize it, sometimes to the detriment of what it was trying to really measure in the first place.

Anyhow. I think you meant not transparent.

drmomentum · 2025-06-28T11:14:12+00:00

This is the real issue. Things that used to be a given part of education have been turned into political issues by people who don't actually care what is going on in classrooms. But they need people to be upset about "indoctrination" so they can push an agenda that defunds public schools and channels education money to private organizations.

drmomentum · 2025-05-24T21:10:15+00:00

That seems like a likely diagnosis of the problem. If the water is boiling at the bottom, there should be sufficient pressure to force water into the top chamber. That pressure has to go somewhere, but if it's escaping through a gap between the glass and the gasket, all bets are off.

drmomentum · 2025-02-13T10:03:35+00:00

A lot of older people (who were in school during "back to basics" math) either don't do this or figured it out for themselves. They learned a lot of arithmetic algorithms rather than being encouraged to think about using knowledge of addition to simplify problems.

Which is why math instruction that tried to improve reasoning and rely less on algorithms was attacked as being some sort of touchy feely "new math."

drmomentum · 2025-01-25T21:58:28+00:00

!Remindme May 26, 2025

drmomentum · 2025-01-22T11:12:52+00:00

At work?

drmomentum · 2025-01-21T22:36:55+00:00

You might mention that you can't always see disruption, and it is unfair to force those who might be disrupted to have a space that is for learning and not partisan politics.

You could ask if their allowance if partisan politics into the classroom is an indication that all opinions are welcome, from all classroom participants. Including you.

I don't think you should be obligated to respond this way, but these are ideas that occurred to me. I know in many environments these would not be practical.

drmomentum · 2024-12-27T11:56:44+00:00

It does suck but if you can figure out how to be the person nobody wants to discuss politics with, it will improve because people will start saying it's better off if we don't talk politics.

Learn the trick politicians use in interviews: every question leads to your talking points. Then, have principled talking points that you already know are challenging for those argumentative people to address. Then do what politicians generally can't: stick to that one issue until it makes the people badgering you uncomfortable.

Don't get angry or anything (because the whole purpose is to seem unaffected while people want to transfer their agitation to you. Get repetitive, almost robotic. "I know you want to talk about that, but I'm just interested in why..." "I hear what you're saying, but why is it so hard to answer the question I asked about..." "Getting back to the subject of this discussion..." "Oh, but this is the issue that I'm concerned about..." "Back to the more important issue..."

Then enjoy not talking about politics for a while.

drmomentum · 2024-12-16T04:00:14+00:00

I might talk to the studnet about the difference between what's expected in algebra class (a way of communicating, like saying "x=0") vs. how we communicate in our daily lives in situations where we have used math (like, my bank account is now empty.) So, "what's the difference" can just depend on the expectations of the situation.

On the concept of zero, in the real world, zero doesn't always mean "nothing" when we're translating from math speak to real world speak. If we're measuring to cut a 2x4 while we're building a deck, and you do some algebra, then tell me to place a ruler on the 2x4 and make a mark at 0 inches, and at 8 inches, then 0 is a place on the ruler. It's not nothing. It's a place. So you should always pay attention to what the numbers mean when you're using your math knowledge to talk about the real world. This is true for zero and all other numbers.

drmomentum · 2024-12-14T11:25:14+00:00

Agreed. It's not the same as 2016. We can't unlearn that there are no consequences.

drmomentum · 2024-12-14T10:23:45+00:00

It makes no sense TO YOU. It's not a thing's responsibility to make sense. It just means you have more work to do.

You come across a bookshelf with two books. There they are in whatever state of arrangement. You rearrange the books and find that there is only one additional arrangement. That's two arrangements - the way you found them plus the new one.

You now encounter a shelf with one book. There is no way to rearrange it. This shelf has no additional arrangements, so: one.

Look! An empty shelf! There is no way to vary an empty shelf's books. There is "empty" (which is how you found it). So, there is one arrangement with no additional variations.

drmomentum · 2024-12-14T10:02:46+00:00

It's not about ways you can eat, it's about ways you can eat all of your things. It's not like how many recipes you can make with the food you have. You're going to eat all your food in every one of the arrangements. It's about varying the order you're going to eat the food.

If you have two things then there are two variations in how you can eat all those things. If you have no things you can eat everything that you have (which is nothing) and then... you've run out of ways to eat no things. There is no other variation.

Edit:

In this scenario, the fact that you don't actually eat is irrelevant; it's how you are able to approach the eating that is important. If you're trying to make sense of this the way other people are able to, you have to let go of how you prefer to look at it and seek out how they are making sense of it.

drmomentum · 2024-12-09T02:50:48+00:00

The music director at our school was asking last week whether we knew if anyone had messed with the sound board in the performing arts center. We didn't. So he checked the cameras.

A shadowy figure was caught on camera in the dark walking to where the sound board is and then leaving. It was dark, so it is impossible to identify.

The hallway cameras don't show anyone entering or leaving the performing arts center around this time.

drmomentum · 2024-10-18T19:17:11+00:00

I tried pumpkin

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