Marie van Staveren

An annoyance. I feel like I was nervous about streaming everything because it seemed wasteful, but I got told it was such a tiny thing. But now when I say AI has environmental effects, folks retort that streaming does too, and I do that, so stop complaining.

Sending love and support to all my Canadian friends out there.

Wait hold on, what?

Oh but a student came up with one midafternoon so I'm good.
Still working off the 10th edition most of the time, haven't bothered to update...maybe 12 is time?

Why on earth does Word want to know my location

Anyone have the 12th edition of Atkins pchem handy? My notes are that the effect of a catalyst on a rate law was dropped from 10 to 11, wanna know if it's still gone in 12.

gradient.horse Draw a horse, watch it run!

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

gradient.horse

If they AI the worked solution, they still need to check that the AI did it correctly and make sure they understand the output for use in the in-class portion. Gets them practicing not blindly accepting AI answer, but also using it to save time/grunt work.

For this case I'm actually a fan of combining 1 and 3. Give them a take home portion where they have to do a bunch of grunt work analyzing the systems (symmetry analysis in this case). Then an in-class portion where you ask them questions about their work, no devices except SDS.

Option 3: Bring the exam back into the classroom.

Option 2: Try some sort of honor code, where you explain your reasons for not wanting them to use AI and ask them not to. It's an upper division majors class so this doesn't seem impossible.

Option 1: We can accept that the AI exists, change the test questions to assume full worked examples as a starting point, and go from there. Re-consider what learning is necessary and how students can show that.

Point 0a: you might be able to beat the AI today, but they advance so fast that planning to beat it forever is a poor bet
Point 0b: the fact that the paid AIs are better than the free ones introduces a weird equity issue to cheating

An AI case study.

I have a colleague teaching inorganic who has done take-home exams for lots of wonderful reasons. He told me he'd checked, and Gemini and ChatGPT can't do his questions, so he's good. I told him to check Claude, and there it was: beautiful worked solutions. So we got to talking.

No! Let the competitors (and coaches) have some privacy!
Wait what sport are you watch? Figure skating gets so invasive with the cameras I don't want them inventing new ways to be invasice, but maybe it's different for...ski jumping?

Jfc NBC you put a heart rate monitor on the coach?

Also the way you are professionally, there's no way you didnt do something like advocate for a marginalized student, or speak up when needed in faculty meeting, or use your white dude powers to amplify other voices. So also you already did your homework this week.

Pick one! Or design your own! Then share your results with the class!

Share the NSF (bsky.app/profile/jere...) and NIH (jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...) funding curves with a friend or family member who isn't a scientists

Call your senators and tell them Chuck Schumer is a dweeb and dems need better leadership

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Five minute action suggestions. 1. Because motion always makes me less hopeless and 2. Because it turns out one of the things I do to feel useful is encourage other people to be useful.

Liz Neeley's newsletter this week. A reminder to make sure you're doing at least one thing this week, as well as useful info for advisors facing trainee funding shenanigans.

Omg Johnny Weir, your outfits are amazing

My little watching speed skating today: "Mommy, is this just track on ice?"

Shout out to Baltimore DPW. We absolutely lack the infrastructure for the snow and ice we have, but each day my commute has gotten easier as the folks with the bobcats clear lanes and clean up bus stops.

I've been surprised at how much it's changed the way I view what's happening.

I'm finding that it's really grounding. I'm taking time to focus on one topic, instead of scrolling past the same headline and being upset over and over. And it makes things less scary.

A practice I'm added that I want to share: each morning over breakfast I read an entire news article from a national paper and an entire article from a local.
I still learn things from socials, I still have opinions on the media. But I read something big and something local each day.

There are 73 different places on every single program for me to click on the AI assist...please tell me we'll decide one or two places that should go, and after a while most of them will disappear.

well. at least we know how bad it is.