Warl0k3 @ Warl0k3 @lemmy.world Posts 6Comments 1,748Joined 2 yr. ago
Pressure from famous people really shouldn't be allowed to shape national policy, but man in this case I'm not complaining. Good on them.
Hmm. If you don't mind me asking, what field was your masters in? During my grad work, you'd have been thrown out after a week if you did similar, but assignments were very much supplemental to the lecture and didn't overlap with the lecture material much at all.
Where I teach, we've settled on massively upping the frequency of in-class quizzes. It doesn't do anything to stop students from using AI, but it makes it really obvious which ones are doing it. By no means a perfect solution, sadly, but the best one we’ve been able to work out yet.
You know, I've had students attempt this every quarter and I've still never seen it actually work. It might be a reflection of how teaching has had to shift as a result of the changes brought on by AI + the pandemic, though. I started professing only a little bit before then, so I never really saw the era where you could get away with such strict adherence to the textbook.
While it's good that you are disciplined enough that you can succeed without it, many students benefit greatly from a rigid structure more in line with the educational environment they experienced up to that point. After freshman year, attendance requirements are usually greatly relaxed since people have gotten into the swing of things (like not having to ask to to go to the bathroom anymore, god what even is the public school system). Personally I don't care if you show up or not, you'll learn something important either way and if someone uninterested isn't there it means I have more time for the other students.
Also I can 100% promise that clicker thing was a contractual obligation from the publisher and not the instructor's idea. Those things are fuckin' awful to support on the instructor's side, and goddamn Pearson managed to tie using their shitfucking software (including those goddamn clickers) to the state and federal grants unis rely on for funding. Fuck pearson.
Okay setting aside that I've never ever seen someone try that and actually succeed, why would someone shell out for a college lecture if they're going to do that anyways? My syllabus is good, but it's not all that useful for independent study time. (You also can't replicate lab or seminar time on your own, so I'm just not sure what you're basing this on.)
I accepted "I'm sorry, it was just too nice a day to spend it sitting in a basement with no windows" once because man, they had a point.
I'll generally accept it if you send any excuse prior to the lecture unless it's becoming a habit - in those rare cases I'll happily work with them to try and figure out a solution. 80% of the time it's family medical appointments or childcare scheduling issues (and my gosh I am so happy to accommodate people dealing with that) and the rare cases it's not we can usually find a way to make up for what they've missed. I've got a couple colleagues that only accept excuses with a doctor's note, and the best thing I can say about them is that they're retiring soon incredibly passionate about teaching.
(none of this applies to freshman courses, though. We've learned that being really strict about attendance for freshman year boosts passing rates by like 30%, it's just crazy.)
If you can pass my class without attending lecture, why wouldn't you just ask to test out of the class??? I scream, into the uncaring void.
I really really should have noticed that, thank you that makes this so much better.
Even sending me a note that you're going to be late is more consideration than I usually get, but I've got enough on-spectrum students that I can very much see this being a legit scenario (though I teach CS so it's a little heavy on the neurodivergent representation). IDK, if they're an otherwise decent student I might let this slide (once), though almost entirely for the novelty of someone actually letting me know they're running late.
The implication is that Youtube so rarely presents them the content they are subscribed to that they have forgotten about the channel entirely.
I'm allergic to the sun :(
(like actually though, it's really annoying to manage esp. at really high/low latitudes)
(ty for asking)
I was presenting the options I've taken, other than the one you presented. You know, like you asked me to do? You're the one that brought up whining to a cashier, IDK where that came from either.
... Does it ever worry you that you have to turn once sincere conversations into sad attempts at trolling to save face?
Wait, were you claiming that was the solution you presented before? You... just have no idea what you're talking about. That's why you haven't responded to any of the substantive points anyone has made, except with this baby-tier bait waggling. Good grief are you seriously so insecure you have to resort to this instead of admitting to yourself that you just don't know enough about the topic to be considered an authority with a respectable position? Come on, have some self respect. When you're downvoting replies in a days-old thread... You know nobody except us is going to see this, right? What's the point of doing that except to take what petty victory you can, to cover for the fact you cant find success on the merits of your ideas alone? Please, reflect on your behavior.
Yeah, I wasn't really sure how to respond to that which is why I tactfully glossed over it instead of saying something unhelpful (like "this is so dumb and wrong that I had to check Trump didn't say it").
Russia being able to end the world is the reality in which these decisions are being made and yet Ukraine has not surrendered, their allies are removing the concessions to russian nuclear deterrence they already implemented and the world is re-arming in response to the invasion instead of kowtowing. Like it is trivially easy to show how this is a stupid, hysteronic take because it is proved wrong every second Ukraine continues to resist the invaders.
Er... well I personally have been attending many of the protests about this issue, expanding my home garden and helping to bolster the community food support systems in my area.
But if you're more comfortable whining that's your prerogative I suppose.
I strongly suspect you're correct, yes, I'd just like to be able to point to decent data when making that claim.
You're dictating a binary to me, which isn't exactly fair. I don't think either of those, one way or the other, I think it's important to have an answer to those questions and questions like them. It's very common for design revisions / model variations to have differences in hardware, and it's easy to verify that this is/isn't the case. The fact they didn't do this, compounded with the other steps in ensuring an accurate comparison that they present no evidence of completing, make it clear that this is either badly presented or sorely lacking in rigor.
As a test comparing out-of-box performance a case could be made that this is useful, but since they're comparing with what appears to be a press unit (clarifying how they acquired the units is yet another thing they didn't do iirc) it's not even safe to assume it's representative of the final product.
I am not saying I doubt Steam OS will smoke Win 11, I am saying that we should hold off celebrating until we have much more rigorous tests to point to besides a seven minute youtube video from some rando who's grandly calling the victor in one of the more important races that has ever existed between operating systems.