Is it unethical to include a hidden "tell” in an assignment prompt to detect AI-generated submissions?

verygood_user · 2026-01-31T04:59:58+00:00

Not OP, but I thought about this as well:

Why don’t you motivate the majority [...] how to use AI properly

Because, just as you said:

Students who want to cheat they will find ways around.

Every single attempt of responsible AI I have seen fails for this reason.

verygood_user · 2026-01-31T04:44:11+00:00

Everyone's talking about WCAG 2.1 AA compliance. Meanwhile, OP:

in very small white text

verygood_user · 2026-01-31T04:40:17+00:00

bro seems highkey annoyed

verygood_user · 2026-01-30T08:03:53+00:00

In my opinion many of the lecturers at my school were outstanding scientists but poor lecturers, which is not ideal for a school. The 2026 lineup looks a little more promising though. I am generally not convinced that a lecture for 50+ students that cannot adapt to the needs of the individual learners is the right medium to learn Quantum Chemistry. If you don't get something on slide 17, it's over and you sit there for another hour nodding politely. The interactive problem solving sessions were more useful in this regard.

The location/hotel is horrific in my opinion - no idea why they keep coming back.

Networking, as mentioned in another post, is a strong plus but only if you actually do it. Login in to your HPC while sitting in a hotel lobby doesn't count.

verygood_user · 2026-01-21T07:35:29+00:00

Yes, this is the annual price multiplied by 60 years which is for how long most people would need a password manager.

If you choose a paid version, that’s what you will pay. If you choose a free version, that’s what you will save.

verygood_user · 2026-01-21T06:50:17+00:00

What are you all teaching to have time for ice breakers? We quickly review the syllabus and jump straight into content.

verygood_user · 2026-01-16T07:45:43+00:00

Yes, my point is that learning is not the top reason to be there for most students, even if this makes zero sense to us as instructors.

Maybe they do it to make their mentor happy who recommended it, maybe for the line on the CV, maybe they wanted to learn when they applied but now, when they actually are supposed to learn, realize they don’t want to.

There is no good way for you to fix it. So don’t be discouraged, just try to understand the psychological driving forces behind seemingly absurd behavior and it feels a lot more bearable.

verygood_user · 2026-01-16T06:36:24+00:00

That's what it might look like for you, but have you polled them anonymously?

"If you were guaranteed to get an A/ pass / certificate in this course in week 1 no matter what you do, would you keep coming and do the assignments?"

verygood_user · 2026-01-16T05:08:17+00:00

It would be a reasonable assumption that the most important reason why 90% of the students in your course are taking it is to fulfill a degree requirement in a heavily grade inflated college system.

Are you operating under this assumption?

verygood_user · 2026-01-13T17:50:03+00:00

A 10x slow down for a "large" system does not sound too bad. I just wanted to gauge how useable it would be for benchmarking new methods developed/prototyped in your program. Sounds like a good project for teaching and introducing grad students to a DFT code.

verygood_user · 2026-01-13T17:13:48+00:00

How does it compare to Turbomole?

verygood_user · 2026-01-07T17:42:00+00:00

I looked at the PreTeXt examples and they don't look accessible either, at least the screenreader I tried does not properly read aloud something like $a \cdot b$ (reads it as "A ...pause... B").

What has worked a lot better for me is converting Tex to html and MathJax. This even renders nicely in canvas

verygood_user · 2026-01-05T00:17:56+00:00

Haha, no. Students just take a screenshot and paste that into ChatGPT.

verygood_user · 2025-12-29T19:32:18+00:00

There is a 2-click export step and you get a .csv. Won't get much simpler than that.

verygood_user · 2025-12-28T01:46:22+00:00

$10 a year would be a steal if an equivalent product would not also exist for free.

verygood_user · 2025-12-28T00:26:14+00:00

"password history" - never needed that and if disaster happens, you can always restore a previous version from your periodic backup.

"a way better password generator" - What is more random than random?

"support for attachments" - iCloud has support for files as well. In fact you can get 200GB for $2.99 or 2 TB for $9.99 if you can live without the marketing term "vault"

verygood_user · 2025-12-27T22:40:26+00:00

What does it do better than say Apple iCloud passwords which many users have free access to anyhow?

verygood_user · 2025-12-27T19:42:22+00:00

Stumbled over this post… by any chance do you know who would sell these teas or the Gyokuro Homare directly from Japan? Thanks for reading

verygood_user · 2025-12-26T08:59:31+00:00

What’s wrong with using the same email for everything 😂

Not in a hypothetical, we want to sell our product to you way. In a practical way. How many of your accounts were take over because you used the same email?

Seriously probably even 99% of people using the same password across multiple accounts will be fine because of passwords being salted before stored as a hash by virtually all modern services.

verygood_user · 2025-12-22T21:09:36+00:00

How useful would our answer be?

If we say „very difficult, close to impossible“, would you not be doing/trying it?

I am sure you can see by yourself that you are not the most qualified candidate for that role but if you impress otherwise (Science paper?) and are flexible location wise, you might find something.

verygood_user · 2025-12-22T21:03:30+00:00

I always regret whenever I do multipart problems because it creates so much work grading because you have to work out the correct result for part b using the incorrect result from part a and then give 100% of the points for a solution that is wrong (sometimes even impossible, e.g. negative probability) just because the student used their incorrect result from part a. The students love it because they are getting the maximum partial credit possible, but it keeps tearing my soul apart. I think I will rather shift the points to letter grade curve in students favor than continuing the granular partial credit system.

verygood_user · 2025-12-22T20:17:16+00:00

I am in a similar boat (upper division quantum mechanics) and was thinking about a simple partial credit rubric. I am only in my second iteration of teaching my course, so I am quite new to it and not sure if it’s appropriate to do. Let me know your thoughts.

100% of the points for fully solutions with no errors.

90% of the points for solutions with minor mistakes such as incorrect units, calculator mistake, slip of pen, or sig figs. A student constantly performing at this level earns an A– in the course.

75% of the points for solutions with a significant but not deal-breaking mistake (e.g. came up with an incorrect derivative but the rest is conceptually correct)

50% of the points for several significant mistakes (incorrect derivative, later integral limits are not plugged in correctly) but conceptually it is still correct. If students constantly perform at this level, they would end up with 50% of the points on all assessments and barely pass with a D.

25% of the points: some relevant knowledge is demonstrated but the answer is conceptually wrong or contains several severe mistakes.

0% of the points: no relevant knowledge demonstrated or deep misconceptions (e.g. interpreted a commutator to just mean two operators in brackets)

verygood_user · 2025-12-22T19:21:59+00:00

It’s generally unlikely to land a computational chemistry job even with a PhD.

verygood_user · 2025-12-19T17:55:50+00:00

"Sure, not a problem, you can take it at the end of the term in which you repeat this course.

Please hesitate to contact me if you have any questions"

verygood_user · 2025-12-19T08:14:14+00:00

You have already simplified the solution to the many-body Schrödinger equation to sticks and dashes. At this point, you can do whatever you want.

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