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by acbart 9mo ago
I'm afraid you misunderstand what it means to be "exempt" under the IRB. It doesn't mean "you don't have to talk to the IRB", it means "there's a little less oversight but you still need to file
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by acbart 9mo ago
So is there a place where this compares to data from last year, or previous years?
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by acbart 9mo ago
I've had colleagues argue (prior to LLMs) that oral exams are superior to paper exams, for diagnosing understanding. I don't know how to validate that statement, but if the assumption is true than there is merit to finding a way t
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by acbart 9mo ago
I have a lot of complicated feelings and thoughts about this, but one thing that immediately jumps to my mind: was the IRB (Institutional Review Board) consulted on this experiment? If so, I would love to know more details about the protoco
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by acbart 10mo ago
It took me a surprisingly long time to find the actual games: - Super Mario Bros Wonder - Yoshi’s Crafted World - Yoshi’s Woolly World So relatively modern games. I initially assumed that they were using the original Super Mario Bros game a
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by acbart 1y ago
LLMs were trained on science fiction stories, among other things. It seems to me that they know what "part" they should play in this kind of situation, regardless of what other "thoughts" they might have. They are going
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by acbart 1y ago
No no, that money goes to the administration. They are not involved in the teaching . That is left to the faculty, who are paid inverse to the amount of teaching they handle. Teaching is an afterthought at universities, the primary activit
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by acbart 1y ago
There are many subskills that you must be proficient in without tools, before you can learn more interesting skills. You need to know how to do multiplication by hand before you rely on a calculator. If you can't do multiplication with
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by acbart 1y ago
More like something from Duck Detective's loading screens.
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by acbart 1y ago
This looks a lot like the approach we use in my pedagogical library Drafter: https://drafter-edu.github.io/drafter/quickstart/quickstart.... Route functions consume a State object (arbitrarily whatever type you wa
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by acbart 1y ago
Couldn't you just pin a specific version dependency? My brain says there's some way to also pin to a hash, but that would require googling and I'm on mobile.
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by acbart 1y ago
This is the budget reconciliation bill.
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by acbart 1y ago
The research that is coming out is very clear that the best students are benefitting, but the bad students are getting worse than if they had never seen the LLM. And the divide is growing, with fewer good students. LLMs are a disaster in ed
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by acbart 1y ago
And then at some point someone shows you how Classes can be verbs, and functions can be nouns, and your brain hurts for a while. You overuse that paradigm for a while, and eventually learn to find the appropriate balance of ideas.
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Questions About Learners' Code (QLCs)(users.aalto.fi)
2 points by acbart 1y ago|1 comments
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by acbart 1y ago
An interesting new approach to assessing student code by asking them questions about the code. From the site: "This work in computing education research builds foundation for a new activity type and approach to learning principles of p
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by acbart 1y ago
Pretty sure this would have been possible in Python 2.6. The Ellipsis object has been around for a very long time.
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by acbart 1y ago
Except that students don't watch the videos. We have so much log data on this - most of them don't bother to actually watch the videos. They intend to, they think they will, but they don't.
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by acbart 1y ago
Incorrect. Fundamentals must be taught in order to provide the context for the more challenging open-ended activities. Memorization is the base of knowledge, a starting point. Cheating (whether through an LLM or hiring someone or whatever)
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by acbart 2y ago
Alas. Perhaps if you attended to your studies more, you'd learn the power of the comma. Your comment really demonstrates the disappointing reality of your approach. Thank you for making it.
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by acbart 2y ago
I was actually just looking at this problem last week, when I realized I needed to keep items in a database table positioned arbitrarily, ideally without needing to manipulate the rest of the list. So if a user adds in a new element after e
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by acbart 2y ago
So you believe that your experience is a universal one for all learners? Cognitive load is a real consideration in teaching, and having to ignore and filter text is challenging for some folks.
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by acbart 2y ago
Basically the concept of Hedy: https://www.hedycode.com/ A Python language/environment/progression that slowly requires the learner to understand more actual Python rules.
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by acbart 2y ago
I wonder what can be done. It's terrifying to realize how dependent students are going to become on these tools. Too many people are just not willing to live with the discomfort that comes with learning something difficult, when the al
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by acbart 2y ago
If code were ever finished, then perhaps this would make sense :)
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by acbart 2y ago
People on Stackoverflow give you a look?
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by acbart 2y ago
Why must every educational python library insist on teaching kids with global variables? I know parameters aren't easy for novices, but it feels like it's missing a lot of the value when we don't attempt to teach them...
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by acbart 2y ago
Ten days from now will mark the one year anniversary of my wife's death. We would have been together for 11 years last November. It's tough. I really understand this letter, I think. You can't stop loving them. Why would you
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by acbart 2y ago
"Isn't this just a GUI for the cat command" "Oh. That's the joke."
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by acbart 2y ago
I spent over a week upgrading a project last January, over what was supposed to be my winter break... Had to rewrite some of the core internals from scratch to prepare for this. I'm not saying they weren't good changes, but the ur

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