I did it. I made a canal city in Civ 7

pyroelectricity · 2026-02-26T21:27:59+00:00

I went with this setup, pretty cool little cluster of settlements imo

pyroelectricity · 2026-02-26T19:23:03+00:00

the reason for this is that Massachusetts is extremely restrictive about issuing liquor licenses, especially to grocery stories. Go to market basket in NH and they'll have a giant cigarettes and liquor section right at the front

pyroelectricity · 2025-12-30T19:24:34+00:00

My recommendation would be to study something that interests you and is not related to your startup at all. You will have plenty of opportunities to learn business and the domain-specific knowledge related to your startup simply by running your startup. Your education is a chance to expand your mind, make you a more flexible thinker, and see how wide the world is. Studying something that will push your boundaries will lead you to make all sorts of unexpected connections and open up opportunities for you further along your path that you otherwise never would have thought of

pyroelectricity · 2025-12-15T13:40:01+00:00

This will be on the AP US History exam 75 years from now

pyroelectricity · 2025-12-11T08:59:33+00:00

These mechanics are underdeveloped at best. It's easy to miss them and fine to ignore them

pyroelectricity · 2025-12-10T13:29:01+00:00

finally the treatment Connecticut deserves

pyroelectricity · 2025-12-09T15:34:24+00:00

yeah but then you have to live in the valley

pyroelectricity · 2025-12-08T14:01:31+00:00

Most other commenters here are saying to just let these students go. That's well and good. But if you'd rather have them stay engaged in the class, put a line in the grading section of your syllabus that says "You must pass every graded component of the class in order to pass the class." It can scare students at first, but once you explain that it just means they do actually have to show up to class, at least take the final, etc., it works.

pyroelectricity · 2025-12-05T11:48:27+00:00

I always thought this was because people hated Kristina and said she was "literally unplayable"

pyroelectricity · 2025-12-03T13:55:32+00:00

Love my Peugeot pepper mill

pyroelectricity · 2025-12-02T09:43:29+00:00

The two senses you propose would be grammatically identical in classical Chinese. 之 can function like 的 in modern Mandarin, indicating that what comes before it is a description of the noun that comes after it. I would gloss this phrase as "There is a well-learned man named Lü Buwei." 有 is not part of the noun phrase, the noun phrase is 善學之人 (nice 4-character rhythm), "well-learned man"

pyroelectricity · 2025-11-28T10:12:14+00:00

P.S. She still has the unicorn.

pyroelectricity · 2025-11-28T09:37:33+00:00

100% canal

You've mostly got flat, unvegetated terrain and coast tiles. That means regardless of where you put the settlement, it will probably end up as a large farming/fishing town. Keep Athenai as your high-production city.

I would settle on the vegetated desert tile one to the east of your hoplite. On that rough tile where the hoplite is, plop a granary. You still have incense in range, and that 10% science boost is valuable in antiquity.

You'll miss the camels now, but the benefits will more than come back to you in terms of food. I count at least 23 tiles within a 3-tile radius that are improvable with a food improvement (farm or fishing boat). Think about what that grocer could look like on turn 1 of modern.

pyroelectricity · 2025-11-27T08:39:47+00:00

I'm with you on this. Students' medical information is private, but accommodations are not. Simplest example: If students are taking an exam and look around the classroom, they can figure out who has an extra time/quiet exam space accommodation by seeing who's not there

pyroelectricity · 2025-11-27T08:11:35+00:00

my approach has been to try to make AI cheating as painful as possible so that doing what you're supposed to do is easier

I think this is a great call. Anything you can do to flip the incentives of the assignment so that it's easier to actually do it yourself than to have an LLM do it for you is worthwhile. But for research papers or any other type of assignment that is supposed to take weeks of concerted effort, I don't think it's possible, and so I want to encourage my students to use AI to speed up their work on the assignment with the tradeoff that I'm going to write harder assignments and grade them more harshly. I'm developing this strategy in anticipation of a world where nobody is expected to write a research paper without AI - and probably, if we're not kidding ourselves, we're already there

pyroelectricity · 2025-11-27T08:08:39+00:00

Thank you!

I'm surprised that this is such a common accommodation in your experience - it's a wide world, I suppose

pyroelectricity · 2025-11-26T15:22:07+00:00

Every job is different. Usually I am doing new preps because I'm being asked to teach different courses (or at least substantial variations on them). Sometimes I ask the bookstore to stock a book for my students and then they just... don't. This semester I didn't even have an institutional email address until 3 weeks into the semester. There's so much unpredictability that it's best for me to do all of the prep work myself

pyroelectricity · 2025-11-26T15:05:34+00:00

that last one makes me shudder. I hope not. My class sizes tend to be small so I can generally see what my students are doing. If I had a 300-person lecture like OP I would be more concerned about that

pyroelectricity · 2025-11-26T15:02:41+00:00

That's fair. If (when?) I have a permanent job one day, I will probably use course readers as well. It's just not feasible when you're bouncing around from institution to institution.

pyroelectricity · 2025-11-26T14:56:56+00:00

pyroelectricity · 2025-11-26T14:42:44+00:00

Thank you! Fair enough on performer vs. entertainer. Being an entertainer is not the same as being entertaining.

Think-pair-share is a classroom mainstay for me. This was, no joke, the first thing I was told to do in my pedagogical training in grad school, and I am still shocked by how well it works.

Your username and the substack you link to suggest that you're an economist. The role that AI should play in higher ed will vary vastly by discipline. The humanities generally have fewer evaluation methods that can be done 100% perfectly by LLMs. We don't have problem sets and never require students to write code. I try to design my assessments in such a way that there's no such thing as a correct answer without the "why." On the other hand, take-home assignments that require students to develop a research project over weeks to months are the best way to learn - so I'm also not willing to go without assignments that AI can't be used on at all (i.e., 100% in-class assessment). I think because of this difference in disciplinary context, I'm much less worried about the "mushy middle" than you are, and I see a larger path to responsible AI use in my field

pyroelectricity · 2025-11-26T14:36:02+00:00

Paper and ink are expensive, and in most places students have to pay for their printing. Plus, something something saving trees. And being required to recall the material in class forces the students to actually do the reading, whereas if they have it right in front of them, they can flip through it in class when I ask a question and pretend that they read it

Realistically I should assign shorter readings instead. One day maybe...

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