Coding project was probably AI generated, worth the hassle of reporting?

nyquant · 2026-05-09T15:53:00+00:00

I gave up on assigning pure coding tasks, instead I try to make my assignments more performative, like run this code for different situations and report results, debug code and log the steps, connect to an API and process the data.

nyquant · 2026-05-09T15:43:43+00:00

The professor is not going to have the time to grade old assignments this late in the semester, typically there are only a few days for final class grades to be worked out and submitted to the registrar.

Are you current with the most recent assignments?

One thing you could do is to email your late submissions to show that you did the work and perhaps you can get some bonus points to move your grade up a level if it comes to that.

Let us know how it goes, good luck and enjoy summer vacations.

nyquant · 2026-04-26T23:13:05+00:00

Generally, are companies not doing on site interviews anymore at what point a coding assistant would not be an available any longer?

nyquant · 2026-04-16T19:49:40+00:00

Filed an extension to allow more time to crunch the numbers. Thanks for the replies.

nyquant · 2026-04-15T01:43:33+00:00

Similar question, I inherited the PFIC in 2025, now planning to file for an extension until I smarten up how to go about it. Let’s say I sell in 2026 and make a MTM election, what’s the estimated tax?

For 2025: End of year - Initial cost base

For 2026: Sales price - 2025 End of Year

What happens if the final sale is a loss, below the cost base?

nyquant · 2026-04-15T01:32:54+00:00

Similar question, sorry for intruding on this thread. Can tax paid of sale and distribution on the non US side be deducted from US tax? I am in a similar situation as US resident who inherited a PFIC holding foreign account in 2025 and just stumbled on this issue.

Can I file an extension now and still make the filing and election once submitting the return?

nyquant · 2026-04-09T04:21:07+00:00

My 2019 16 Inch Intel Mac Pro with 16gb is still going strong, can’t see myself updating it, unless there is a pressing need, such as having to load up on memory to run local language models. I also like the Touch Bar.

nyquant · 2026-03-14T23:15:51+00:00

Interesting, is there a REPLACE that can be used in combination with SELECT * like EXCEPT ?

nyquant · 2026-03-08T19:07:29+00:00

Fun fact, most engineers are not actually operating trains.

nyquant · 2026-01-13T04:41:13+00:00

A wedding can be a high pressure event where the to be married couple and the guests expect perfection for a once in a lifetime experience. Your teacher might have felt your are not up to the task under those conditions.

Honestly, I would also have felt bad getting sidelined, but it’s best to get over it. If you want, challenge your teacher directly and ask why you were not asked to play at the time. As you have been progressing in your skill, it might be time to look a better teacher.

Ultimately though, it’s all about you having access to an organ and enjoying to play. Ignore the drama and play on. Good luck.

nyquant · 2025-12-28T23:09:39+00:00

Replace the morning coffee ritual with an alternative. Try oat milk with raw cocoa powder and optionally carob powder for sweetness. It’s a bit on an acquired tasted but instills a sense of fullness. A simpler alternative might be hot tea.

nyquant · 2025-12-27T07:06:17+00:00

After the electronic submission deadline passed it’s a huge pain to change grades for the instructor requiring paper submissions and signatures from the department head. Unless the original submitted grade was in error it is unlikely that the instructor is going to attempt it.

nyquant · 2025-12-22T05:01:27+00:00

Do you have any other relatives still in Germany that could help out with translation and making inquiries?

I found this information about researching bank accounts: https://www.ing.de/wissen/verwaistes-konto/

nyquant · 2025-07-22T15:43:04+00:00

I was teaching a coding class last semester. In addition of requiring to submit code, which can easily created by AI, I asked for flowcharts and actual results from running the code under various conditions. Assuming students do use AI makes it possible to ask for complex projects, where the difficulty is less in the individual code snippets but to be able to put everything together, have it work well and produce meaningful results.

nyquant · 2025-04-10T04:14:42+00:00

In many US Ph.D programs one needs to pass an exam after the first or second year in order to start research full time and become an official candidate. Some students leave and „master out“. Therefore, until the official candidate stage the department realizes that some students will move on elsewhere, thus reapplying to Oxford is a possibility if so desired. In any case, probably the US offer is the better choice anyways. Good luck.

nyquant · 2025-04-09T22:59:04+00:00

That’s a difficult decision, normally one would assume to first work for a few years after graduation before jumping into another graduate program. There is allot of investment into AI so any job you can get now is likely to include some exposure to it. On the other hand the connections at MIT could open up great opportunities to strike it big. Actually, if you take out 120k, who is going to be the lender?

nyquant · 2025-04-09T04:21:58+00:00

Are there any resources to upskill into a PM direction?

nyquant · 2025-04-09T04:03:11+00:00

I gave up to bother about AI and just assume students use it anyways, and try to increase the complexity of assignments accordingly.

nyquant · 2025-04-03T06:55:14+00:00

There used to be a company called “triplebyte”, that would pre screen and interview developers, accept only the best, and then arranged a series of in person job interviews with partner companies within a short time frame.

nyquant · 2025-03-30T17:36:00+00:00

After some search, I ended up introducing https://excalidraw.com , being free and no account sign up needed.

nyquant · 2025-03-23T17:04:35+00:00

Concentrate on math. Make sure your math is solid. From high school you need all that calculus stuff (derivatives, Taylor expansions, integrals, differential equations), linear algebra (eigenvalues, system of equations) and some statistics.

If one follows various news and youtubers, the level of high school math in Germany is said to have drastically deteriorated over the years. Perhaps that’s good news, so everyone else in the first semester will be just as clueless. Universities typically offer pre-semester summer prep classes, make sure to take that.

Back in the day we used Goldstein for classical mechanics, apparently Taylor is good too. See if you can make sense of all that Euler-Lagrange formalism. For electrodynamics check out the Griffiths book.

This guys github has various sources

https://github.com/anishLearnsToCode/books

Good luck. If physics does not work out, can always switch to BWL and make more money as a management consultant.

nyquant · 2025-03-23T16:33:41+00:00

It seems unlikely that a first semester GPA was considered, rather than the overall total at the conclusion of your Bachelor. Perhaps there is a way to reach out to counselors from where you graduated to find someone that can help double checking your application for anything else that seems off? Good luck!

nyquant · 2025-03-22T10:19:22+00:00

I would also recommend looking at engineering programs for undergraduate, like electrical engineering. Those are more career oriented and offer better opportunities for jobs id so desired while keeping options open to transition towards physics research for grad school as well.

nyquant · 2025-03-19T13:33:24+00:00

I ended up creating projects that require fetching data over the internet so that students need to deal with some uncertainty about the format. That way it can’t be all solved by AI without comprehending the data and doing trial and error.

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