Lots of snow (for Vancouver) for those of you coming to AAS

America where they can't put out 100C (or 212F if you insist) water

Can't see who it is either

Not a ban just don't feel like wasting time grading obviously AI tuned essays

I'm going to completely give up take home essays next year

Alas it's now been downscaled to a book on the history of Taiwan's tea industry

Peter Perdue's China Marches West is a great book, but this part is off by 100 years. My paper next month at Academia Sinica would argue that "outsourcing war" as I call it was probably integral to the Qing war effort against the Zungars

Gotta try that

It's a real gem and quite useful, even if frequently a little wrong but can't expect perfection when someone tries to do this for China for like 2000 years of history

I've seen that transcription AI in action. It's... Ok, but missed a lot of details, and also isn't so good at catching academic speak

Good question. My view is if a student works enough on it with an AI bot so that the end product ends up original and good I don't mind it as much... Not like you can stop them anyway

Rare though, from what I can see

Few thoughts on AI student essays:
1) they're mostly not using it to write their work wholesale, but as something to sketch out the essay and then put their own content in that skeleton
2) because of that, most end up sounding very similar
3) emphasize originality in grading

Yeah debating what to do with essays. I don't want to completely give it up

Hah pretty sure they have plenty of data already

Presented by Dean of Students Office!

Yes it's next to our campus Starbucks

But really, I don't understand student psychology here. When the paper is 1) obviously AI and 2) full of hallucinations, why would you hand in something like this? It's a zero. Anything is better than a zero

I can use a turn in this after grading yet another obviously AI generated paper

I wouldn't know lol

Not on here much. Wouldn't touch these with a ten foot pole

Just this morning I was thinking to myself I don't have enough Munch conducting Berlioz, and then the gods answered

How to party 101

The very definition of having a good time

Surprised to see this for sale and hasn't been picked up

Is there an easy way to import a thread from Twitter? Asking for a friend

We all know what we are going for I guess

Visited a tea maker in Yuchi who had these top prize plaques stacked up on the side because he didn't have enough wall space for them

One of the fun things about archival research is that the thing you called up can be a single sheet of paper or a thousand pages

Yeah the country took a few wrong turns which got us here