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As a non-student, I received an overzealous takedown request from the University of Washington a decade ago. https://github.com/nayuki/Reference-Huffman-coding/
by nayuki 2y ago
As a non-student, I received an overzealous takedown request from the University of Washington a decade ago. https://github.com/nayuki/Reference-Huffman-coding/issues/1 https://github.com/nayuki/Reference-Huffman-coding/issues/1
Also related: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/295420/how-to-cope-with-complaints-from-tutors-who-want-to-fight-cheaters https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/295420/how-to-cope-...
- unethical_ban 2y agoThat is hilariously naive. Particularly in the age of AI, professors might have to go back to the practice of oral exams to have people demonstrate their understanding of an issue. The problem for universities is that means you have to have a lower student:teacher ratio.
- userbinator 2y agoOr just any exam where the only thing you're allowed to use is "the mass of cells between your ears", as one instructor I know liked to put it.
- loeg 2y agoThe request was in 2015, dawg.
- rtkwe 2y agoCheck the date on the issue... it's from 2015 way before (gen) AI was even close to being a thing much less being useful for actual coding.
- unethical_ban 2y agoI know - that's why I said "particularly". I was in college in the era of Facebook being for college students only. My point was that a professor cannot fault providers of information on the internet for their students' unethical behavior. And if they can't trust their students to do remote assignments, then they should test with more reliable methods like in-person examinations.
- loeg 2y agoI would not call that overzealous? It's not couched in legal language / demands, it fully explains the rationale for the request. Intro CS students cheat all the time, they're very lazy about it, having posted answers as top Google results facilitates that and increases TA burden. (Full disclosure, I was personally acquainted with Whitaker long ago. He was a TA for the intro classes. I think he just sincerely wanted to reduce cheating in the intro UW CS courses.)
- userbinator 2y agoIt's definitely an overreach, and reflects badly on him and his employer. If one of my open-source projects got hit with that sort of request, my response would be far less polite. (Full disclosure: I have taught CS courses before.)
- loeg 2y agoI guess I assumed it was actually written directly to a UW homework assignment, but looking at the repository, I don't actually see any reference to that. So you may be right.
- LAC-Tech 2y agoYou are so much more polite than I am. Admirable.
- nayuki 2y agoI would love to see examples of your sassy writings. Maybe I could learn a thing or two about responding to people. Note that I've become more cynical in these 10 years that passed. I was, let's say, more charitable with people in the past.
- LAC-Tech 2y agoWell, here's the post that made Paul Graham block me on X: https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1778912158404997494 https://x.com/LewisCTech/status/1778912158404997494 Also briefly made me popular on Nigerian Twitter, which was fun :)
- pcthrowaway 2y agoWell, I guess there's no point to applying to YC for whoever is working on delve.io