I love this. Now I'll be able to read student papers with ads in the middle. "Are you enjoying our exploration of state Shinto in late nineteenth century Japan? Visit Kyoto with Japan Airlines this summer! Use the code 'JAL26' for special savings!"
Readit Newsipcress_file commented on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/fleahunter
I believe this is a crafty method of reviving "Participaction" without Hal and Joanne.
Well played, Mr. Carney!
Keep in mind the Canadians burnt down the Whitehouse. Twice.
Then simply marched back home and said “stop being so stupid.”
Not quite. Late in the war, the British Navy landed British troops who burned the White House.
About 85% of all Canadian militiamen remained at home when called up in 1812. In 1812 and 1813, British regulars and Indigenous warriors (from both the U.S. and Canada) invaded Michigan and Ohio, but didn't get any further than that before the U.S. counter-attacked.
Ah, I think you're right. I was quoting from memory, but it's still a strange separation.
It dates back to the construction of Kingston Penitentiary. They needed a rule to determine who would serve their time in local prisons and who would be sent to the Pen.
ipcress_file commented on My phone is an ereader now davepagurek.com/blog/mini... · Posted by u/wonger_
Ditch the keyboard and price it like a kindle and I'm sold.
Check out the Mudita Kompakt.*
*not priced like a Kindle :)
ipcress_file commented on My phone is an ereader now davepagurek.com/blog/mini... · Posted by u/wonger_
Had you used any BlackBerry phones before it? In my opinion the Passport was considerably better than other BlackBerry phones from the couple of years before it, but it was so much worse than the older BlackBerries were (at least in the context of what was available at the time) so much better that people who had used BBs for years found the Passport frustratingly bad in comparison.
Hi there, I had several BlackBerry phones, including a Passport SE.
For productivity apps, nothing compared with the Bold 9900. So snappy and minimalistic. The memos, calendar, messaging and the like were great.
As far as BB10 devices go, the Passport had the screen real estate, but the Q10 was way more pocketable. So I found the Passport awkward to deal with when on the move. I still have all of them. Who knows what to do with functional old tech?
ipcress_file commented on Bring Back the Blue-Book Exam chronicle.com/article/bri... · Posted by u/diodorus
Same here.
Online instruction / learning can work for some people, and that's good.
I don't understand how anyone ever thought that an online exam could be made secure. There's just no way to ensure that the person who registered for the course is the one taking the exam when you don't control anything about the hardware or location, when students have a wide variety of hardware that you must support, and any attempt at remove video monitoring of the exam immediately runs into scalability and privacy issues. Like, even if you're watching a video of the person taking the online exam, how do they prove that they didn't just hook up an extra keyboard, mouse and (mirrored) monitor for person #2 to take the exam for them while they do their best to type and/or mouse in a convincing way?
It also doesn't help that you periodically get students who will try to wheedle, whinge, and weasel their way into an online exam, but then bomb the in-person exam (it's so strange and totally unrelated that they really, really wanted to take an online exam instead of in-person!).
Ok, I'll stop ranting now :)
I get it. My major concern was that students were cheating online (nearly 50% if I was detecting them all) who I didn't think would have cheated in the classroom. I didn't like the idea that we were creating a situation that enticed students to cheat.
That being said, the whole experience had an impact on my generally optimistic view of human nature.
ipcress_file commented on Bring Back the Blue-Book Exam chronicle.com/article/bri... · Posted by u/diodorus
One can't have an informed opinion on this without witnessing how grading a college exam takes place, first hand.
Grading a stack of blue books is a "just kill me now" brutal experience. A majority of cognitive effort is just finding the page for the next problem to grade, with finding the answer another delay; any programming language with this kind of access latency would stay a "one bus" language. So of course professors rely on disinterested grad students to help grade. They'll make one pass through the stack, getting the hang of the problem and refining the point system about twenty blue books in, but never going back.
With stapled exams one problem per page one can instead sort into piles for scores 0-6 (if you think your workplace is petty, try to imagine a sincere conversation about whether an answer is worth 14 or 15 points out of 20), and it's easy to review piles.
When I had 200 linear algebra exams to grade at once, I'd scan everything, and use my own software to mark and bin one question at a time, making review passes a pleasure. I could grade a 10 question final in one intense sitting, with far more confidence in the results than team grading ever gave me.
I think problem number one is that you had 200 exams to grade.
ipcress_file commented on Bring Back the Blue-Book Exam chronicle.com/article/bri... · Posted by u/diodorus
Survey question: To what extent did blue book exams go away?
When I started out (and the original Van Halen was still together), blue book exams were the norm in humanities classes. I've had narrow experience with American undergrad classes the past 25 years, so I don't have a feeling for how things have evolved.
I've never stopped using them, with the exception of the pandemic year, when we were forced to run online exams.
Why replace a system that generally works well with one that introduces additional potential problems?
After they stopped releasing the device tree, there's really not a lot that will hold ROM developers to Pixels. I'll definitely wait to see what happens on that front before buying my next phone.