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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 22h

haha I am, but it was basically multiple-choice

Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 1d

Apparently she said she was thankful for kaya toast but the teachers didn’t know what that was so they just wrote toast. Singapore wins again.

Children’s art that says “happy Thanksgiving. I am thankful for toast.”

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 2d

Yep

Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 2d

I love doing row row row your boat with my toddler but her form is just terrible

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 2d

fwiw when I did this in the winter I’m pretty sure it increased the spread of the grades. The students that most needed the practice still used LLMs to cheat, and the most conscientious students that already knew the material still used them to practice.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 2d

This retains the problem set as the opportunity to practice—which I think is very useful—but makes it so cheating is unattractive.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 2d

In my case I have a low bar for passing, say, 5 problems sets and each is worth 1/100 of the final grade. So students should use them to actually practice for the tests rather than using LLMs to cheat them. If they do not, it's not a huge deal (and it hurts them later).

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 2d

Not surprising! Camel, eye of a needle, etc

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 3d

🙏

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 3d

It’s all reasonable, I think, but I don’t love it and I think it is worse than what I had set up in the pre-LLM world.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 3d

I haven’t outright cut the take-home stuff (problem sets, reading reflections, etc) but I have scaled it back, converted it to pass fail, and made it cumulatively worth a very small amount amount of the grade. It’s worth about 10% in total. I also turned one written assessment into an oral one.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 3d

I of course respond with “thank you,” as is customary.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 3d

I strongly agree about time pressure. My current test only had 13 questions for an hour and a half and the students only had to write 25 sentences total. My goal was to make time pressure not be part of it, but this is imperfect and also creates other issues.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 3d

Canadian students are so polite they say thank you when they turn in their tests.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 3d

Love this place

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 3d

I do a stats and coding exam in a computer lab with ethernet, and I just unplug the ethernet. Before I realized I could do that I was really worried about how I would test them, and it works well. the current test is just pen and paper. I have many more such tests now. no take homes.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 3d

I'm giving a midterm exam right now and while this mode of assessment is LLM-resistant, it's really not great. I feel bad that this cohort of students is going to face a lot a more stressful tests.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 5d

very cool!

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 5d

Oh I misread. Thanks for the correction. Can you read when you’re using it? It seems kind of great.

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 5d

Everyone should do what they can sustain. For me, I think the main advantage of an exercise bike is that I could read while biking. The main disadvantage is you don’t get much muscle building, especially core, upper body, & arms. For all in 1 activities and low injury risk, I think it’s swim or row.

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